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By Mansur Mirovalev Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte said Tuesday his mission was accomplished after a 10-day trip to the International Space Station where

By Jerry Kronenberg A real estate judge is refusing to reverse a landmark ruling that opens the door to voiding tens of thousands of Bay

The United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between December 7 and December 18, 2009. The conference

By Robert Pear, For the first time in more than three decades, Social Security recipients will not get any increase in their benefits next year,

By: Rob Kirby Earlier this week, I wrote about possible “incongruities” in the gold bar registry of GLD [SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)]. Specifically, here is

By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer The term influenza, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is taken from the Italian word for occult or

While watching football over at my daughter’s home, I got a call from Channel 15 asking if I could explain the motivation behind the “Support

By Aaron Klein President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. Cass Sunstein also

Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a

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