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Israelis warned of greater risk of kidnappings
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel on Friday warned its citizens of what it termed a high risk of being kidnapped when travelling outside the country following the killing in February of a top leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia. "The Counter-Terrorism Bureau warns over kidnappings of Israelis abroad, particularly businessmen...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Internet-site, Israel
Research articles 2008-03-21
Khomeini's grandson quits Iran race after slurs: report
TEHRAN AFP — A grandson of Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has withdrawn from next week's parliamentary polls amid a smear campaign, the press reported on Sunday. Ali Eshraghi had withdrawn from the March 14 elections after "rumours" about his life appeared on Internet sites, his sister Zahra...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Internet-site, Leadership, rumour
Research articles 2008-03-02
Websites promoting anorexia shut down in Spain: Microsoft
MADRID AFP — Four websites accused of promoting anorexia and bulimia as acceptable weight-loss methods have been shut down in Spain, a spokesman for Microsoft's Spanish division said Tuesday. The blogs, housed by the Microsoft division, were shut down at the request of Catalan Internet quality control agency Iqua,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Internet-site, Microsoft Corp., Spain, spokesman
Research articles 2007-11-20
Spain's Prado museum launches new Internet site
MADRID AFP — Spain's Prado museum launched a more detailed version of its Internet site Monday ahead of the opening at the end of the month of a long-awaited new annex which will extend floor space by half. Available in 12 languages, www.museodelprado.es provides online access to a greater...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Internet-site, MADRID, museum, Spain
Research articles 2007-10-15
Screw-up: fastner thief nailed from Internet site
BERLIN AFP — A German employee who stole over a million screws from the carpentry company he worked for to sell them on the Internet has been arrested after his cut-price online sales raised suspicions, police said Saturday. The 33-year-old man was nabbed this week in Wuerzburg, southern Germany....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Berlin, INTERNET, Internet-site, SALES
Research articles 2007-09-29
Business Models and Producer-Owned Ventures: Choices, Challenges, and Changes
Producer-owned business models are rapidly evolving. Producer-owned, value-added ventures face a number of organizational challenges, including capital acquisition, security exchange registration, antitrust exemption, borrowing eligibility, and operational flexibility. This paper examines the success of evolving producer-owned business models in addressing these challenges. The need for uniform criteria to distinguish producer-owned...
Tags: Cook, equity, FINANCE, Hanson, Internet-site, Investment, investor, M., security, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2007-08-01
Football: Juventus make Ronaldo bid
MADRID AFP — Italian second division side Juventus have made an offer to recruit Real Madrid's out-of-favour Brazilian striker Ronaldo. Juventus want to sign Ronaldo for next season in the expectation of rejoining the top flight having being relegated after the summer's match-fixing scandal, radio station Cadena Ser reported on...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Internet-site, MARKETING
Research articles 2007-01-13
Simultaneous Adoption of Herbicide-Resistant and Conservation-Tillage Cotton Technologies
If adoption of herbicide-resistant seed and adoption of conservation-tillage practices are determined simultaneously, adoption of herbicide-resistant seed could indirectly reduce soil erosion and adoption of conservation-tillage practices could indirectly reduce residual herbicide use and increase farm profits. Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between these two technologies for Tennessee...
Tags: Bradley, Council, Farm, Internet-site, Johnson, Memphis, Monsanto, Roundup, technology, Tennessee, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2006-12-01
Bahrain blocks opposition group's website
MANAMA AFP — Bahrain has shut down an opposition group's website days after censoring several Internet sites for discussing an alleged plot to maintain Sunni domination of the Gulf kingdom, a political activist said. The information ministry blocked the website of the leftist National Democratic Action Association NDAA starting on...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bahrain, INTERNET, Internet-site
Research articles 2006-11-03
Bahrain clamps down on discussion of 'spy' allegations
MANAMA AFP — Bahrain has censored local and foreign Internet sites for discussing a report by an alleged British spy who claimed to have uncovered a plot to maintain Sunni domination of the Gulf kingdom, local media said. Newspaper reports quoted Ministry of Information official Hassan Aoun as saying "the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bahrain, Internet-site
Research articles 2006-10-31
Russian music Internet site refuses to buckle to US pressure
MOSCOW AFP — A Russian Internet site selling Western pop music at knock-down prices says it will continue its methods even though the United States says it is obstructing Russian accession to the World Trade Organisation. As the troubled WTO negotiations continue, US negotiators have repeatedly returned to one issue:...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, INTERNET, Internet-site, Moscow, music, Russia, U.S., Washington, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2006-10-06
US reveals Iraq 'hostage affairs' office
WASHINGTON AFP — The White House revealed what may be a US diplomatic first: the US embassy in Baghdad houses a formal "Office of Hostage Affairs" to handle abductions of American citizens and other nationals. "The United States, through the Office of Hostage Affairs in Embassy Baghdad, is addressing the...
Tags: Baghdad, Internet-site, SOFTWARE, U.S. Department of State, White House
Research articles 2006-09-07
Economic Competitiveness of Bioenergy Production and Effects on Agriculture of the Southern Region
The economic competitiveness of biobased industries is discussed by comparing the South relative to other regions of the United States and biomass as a feedstock source relative to fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. An estimate of the biomass resource base is provided. Estimated changes in the agricultural sector...
Tags: analysis, baseline, biofuel, FINANCE, Internet-site, South, Taxes, Transportation, U.S., U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2006-08-01
Sheraton starts an online 'social network' for guests
TRAVEL Creating a "community" via your Internet site is a dot-com buzzword. Now a big hotel chain is doing it. The Starwood chain began the dialogue with customers in April with TheLobby.com, designed to update and involve Starwood Preferred Guests. This week, Starwood's Sheraton brand unveiled the redesigned...
Tags: dot-com, Internet-site, MARKETING, network, Smithsonian Institution, Starwood, USA Today, wine, York
Research articles 2006-06-30
Publishers settle unauthorized copying and selling lawsuits; Defendants sold unauthorized copies of textbook solutions manuals on internet sites.
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 April 2006-WILEY: Publishers settle unauthorized copying and selling lawsuits; Defendants sold unauthorized copies of textbook solutions manuals on internet sitesC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18042006 New York - Pearson Education, Inc., and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., two leading...
Tags: Internet-site, John Wiley & Sons Inc., lawsuit, Litigation, Pearson Education Inc., Wiley
Research articles 2006-04-18
US kids tap Internet site to learn about sperm donor fathers
NEW YORK AFP — Ryan Kramer, a young boy conceived using an anonymous sperm donor, always wanted to know something about his father. Unable to find the donor himself, Kramer struck on the next best thing: contacting others who shared the same paternal blood -- his half-brothers and sisters....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Internet-site, Wendy
Research articles 2006-04-04
Lithuanian website bars same-sex Valentine's Day kisses
VILNIUS AFP — A Lithuanian ombudsman is to probe an Internet site for discrimination after users complained that they could not send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to a friend of the same sex. "We received two complaints that an Internet site, in its 'friends' section, offers to send...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Internet-site
Research articles 2006-02-14
Colin Farrell's sex tape pops up on Internet despite ban
LOS ANGELES AFP — Hell-raising movie star Colin Farrell has forced the shutdown of a website after it offered viewers a peek at his home-made sex video in violation of a court order banning its release. The Internet site that boasted the steamy fare on Tuesday was not accessible...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, Internet-site, MARKETING, video
Research articles 2006-01-11
Attorney general prepares for wave of hurricane charity scams in
The state attorney general's office is reluctantly preparing for the next wave of scam artists preying on the goodwill of Oklahomans seeking to help Hurricane Katrina victims, department spokesman Charlie Price said. We haven't had any direct reports yet of charity fraud, Price said. But we saw it...
Tags: agency, FBI, Government, Internet-site, MARKETING, SECURITY
Research articles 2005-09-09
Assessing the Current Price of a Bond
The current price of a bond is the amount investors are prepared to pay for it, which in practice will be somewhere between the bid price and the asking price.Investors can check current prices to gauge how much a particular bond might cost them. They can also track changes in...
Tags: interest rate, Internet-site, stock, financial, tool, Price, Investor, Investment, Finance, Information, BNET Editorial, Bond
Articles 2007-10-09
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