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  • SUV crash survival more likely SUV crash survival more likely

    Passengers in SUVs are now known to be more likely to survive a serious crash. A new study conducted by the University of Buffalo in the US has found the driver of the SUV is as much as 10 times more likely to survive in a head-on collision where a passenger car is involved. While automakers have taken steps to improve safety in normal passenger cars, such as changing bumper designs on ...

  • Famous New York artists bring huge prices Famous New York artists bring huge prices

    Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat smashed all previous auction records at Christie's in New York during the week. In fact, several works by popular artists brought extraordinary prices. The items made $495 million for their owners at the valuable sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's. However, a single Andy Warhol Painting of Marilyn ...

  • Microsoft warns about rise in computer viruses worldwide

    A Microsoft security expert said that computer viruses are on a rise worldwide once again after years of being less popular amongst computer attackers. In a report by Fox news, the security expert Tim Rains said that although viruses were less chosen to attack systems by hackers nowadays as they used other forms of threats, but recently Microsoft security has observed that viruses are on a rise ...

  • China Housing Bubble Cools But Prices Still Higher

    China housing prices continued to rise in April. China's property market cooled a bit in April, but home prices are still on the rise, the National Bureau of Statistics said Saturday. Of the 70 major Chinese cities tracked by NBS, 67 saw home prices increase in April compared to March, with the highest growth rate at 2.1%, down from the 3.2% in March. All the first-tier cities like ...

  • Best Airports In The World

    Probably no one, really. The better question is "who hates airports?" For the most part, it's often the airports that make flying such a chore.  Some of them are better than others. According to the Airports Council International, these are the airports that travelers prefer. For customer service in South Africa to China, here's a look at the top three airports in six ...


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The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd

In reviewing Robert Redfords somber Oscar winner Ordinary People (1980), Pauline Kael theorized that, when popular actors turn to directing, they feel the need to choose material as a penance for the frivolous good times theyve given us. While no one would accuse Robert De ... ...

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  • China Police Bust Terrorist Hoax

    Authorities bust terrorist hoax. Chinese authorities caught a 43-year old man who made bomb threats that affected five flights bound for Shanghai on Friday. From 5:22 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. on Friday, police in the cities of Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou received phone calls claiming there were bombs on passenger flights. Police started an investigation immediately and ...

  • SAPVoice Are Machines On The Net Making Humans Obsolete

    . These sensors monitor the environment and send data to the cloud for analysis. Every physical object becomes a tool we can interact with in real time. And machines can communicate with each other to respond with no human intervention at all. This IT inflection point ...

  • 10 things cruise lines won’t tell you

    It's been a tough couple of seasons for the cruise ship industry. First, the Costa Concordia, a 3,800-passenger ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp., ran aground off the coast of Italy in January 2012. Thirty-two people were killed, while images of the abandoned ship, lying incongruously on its side. beside a picturesque beach town, flashed around the ...

  • Is Tumblr the new Geocities

    let's say 1999, you'd find that the scenario is exactly the same as it was for Geocities, a company Yahoo acquired for $3.57 billion in stock . The Geocities story can be seen as a usual lens to use when considering a Yahoo/Tumblr merger because it followed a similar blueprint to the story currently developing. Fred Wilson's VC ...

  • How to Hire Great Employees

    Investors say they invest in people as much as they invest in ideas, and when it comes to your company, it is not just top management that can make or break your business. Unpleasant or dissatisfied employees, poorly trained workers, rapid turnover, or a toxic work environment can all predestine your organization to failure. Here are the 5 lessons I learned about hiring from interviewing several ...

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