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GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS INDEX RANKINGS 2006 (2005) 1: Switzerland (4) 2: Finland: (2) 3: Sweden (7) 4: Denmark (3) 5: Singapore (5) 6: United States (1) 7: Japan (10) 8: Germany (6) 9: Netherlands (11)...

For an aggressive trader betting other people’s money, swinging for fences entails little risk: “Eighty percent chance I make another $100 million; 20 percent chance we bomb and I get another job.” It’s no...

A team from Oxford University has discovered that the Celts, Britain’s indigenous people, are descended from a tribe of Iberian fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay 6,000 years ago. DNA analysis reveals they...

New Order got $200,000 for raping Blue Monday to produce “Sunkist is the one”. It also says Blur got £500,000 ($940,533.13) from Intel for Song 2. How does it feel When a new day...

The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon...

I came across a term, “Sumata“, but when I looked it up in Wikipedia, there were no hits. A shameful state of affairs that has now been rectified. Apparently, the Nepalese also use the...

After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans … Before they could go to Baghdad, they...

The vole, a mouselike rodent, is not only the fastest evolving mammal, but also harbors a number of puzzling genetic traits that challenge current scientific understanding … [voles have] evolved in the last 500,000...

Fully two-thirds of the [US] Army’s operating force, both active and reserve, is now reporting in as “unready”—that is, they lack the equipment, people, or training they need to execute their assigned missions. Not...

The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a Montreal college Wednesday apparently left an online journal … Kimveer Gill was the author of an online diary posted at the website vampirefreaks.com …...