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• Massachusetts researcher sees area promise for hardy crops of cabbage family.

  - 2004-11-29

  By Kathleen Burge, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--Andrew Cavanagh has glimpsed the future, and it is Brussels sprouts. In rows of broccoli lined up like cadets, in clusters of cauliflower hiding their snowy heads within...

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• Massachusetts attorney general sues to stop apparent telecom scam.

  - 2004-11-23

  By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 23--Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly moved yesterday to rescue nearly 200 Bay State businesses from an apparent telecommunications scam that bound many to pay $100,000 or more for a...

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• Media makes early missteps, shows late-night caution in covering election.

  - 2004-11-04

  By Mark Jurkowitz, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4--The 2004 election did not match the chaos of the 2000 presidential contest. But it provided another rocky ride for the media that began with early expectations of a win for...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Bush, CNN, Florida, media, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, Ohio, president

• Questions about exit polling arise once again.

  - 2004-11-03

  By Mark Jurkowitz,, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--With George W. Bush on the verge of being anointed the winner of the battle for the White House by the networks this morning, the exit polls used to make projections...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Bush, Florida, Kerry, network, NETWORKING, Ohio, White House

• TV networks hope to avoid exit poll errors in calling presidential race.

  - 2004-11-02

  By Mark Jurkowitz, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 2--As the nation votes today in a neck-and-neck presidential race that could be complicated by everything from an unprecedented level of early voting to possible legal challenges, television networks have...

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• Technology makes home monitoring easier.

  - 2004-11-01

  By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 1--Did you turn off the stove and close the backdoor this morning? Would it be nice to use your office Internet connection -- or even your cellphone -- to make...

  Tags: Boston Globe, broadband, camera, MARKETING, monitoring, NETWORKING, RCN Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, video

• Ethernet creator evangelizes on new networking revolution.

  - 2004-10-25

  By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 25--WALTHAM, Mass. -- Bob Metcalfe -- inventor, entrepreneur, pundit, and venture capitalist -- is just back from Europe and jet-lagged. Padding about the immaculate offices of Polaris Venture Partners,...

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• The Boston Globe business briefs column.

  - 2004-10-20

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 20--WIRELESS TAKEOVER APPROVAL IMMINENT: Cingular Wireless LLC's $41 billion takeover of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could be approved any day now, Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael K. Powell said. Powell, speaking...

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• Massachusetts governor's time in national spotlight is shorter than expected.

  - 2004-10-18

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--It was supposed to be the year of Governor Mitt Romney's arrival on the big stage, when he would raise his national profile by campaigning against a home-state senator on behalf of President Bush,...

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• TV networks say they won't stick to presidential debate restrictions.

  - 2004-09-30

  By Mark Jurkowitz, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 30--Television networks say they will not be bound tonight by a restriction in the presidential debate agreement hashed out between the Bush and Kerry campaigns that bans reaction shots of one...

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