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• Photos strengthen case for water on Mars
Edgett and colleagues used images from NASA's now-silent Mars Global Survivor to revisit regions earlier this year where gullies, depressionlike landforms on the Red Planet's surface, were found in 2000. What they found were new, light-colored ...
• Target, Lowe’s revise sales outlook downward
Lowe's said drought conditions in the mid-Atlantic, Southeastern and Western regions of the country have hurt performance in its outdoor segment. The company had predicted earnings between $1.97 and $2.01 per share. Analysts polled by Thomson ...
• Study: Drivers lose 5 days a year to traffic
The problem has grown too rapidly and is too complex for only one technology or service to be ’the solution’ in most regions,” the report said. "The good news," study co-author Tim Lomax said, "is that there are multiple strategies involving ...
• New home sales post small gain in March
The biggest increase was a 50 percent rise in sales in the Northeast followed by an increase of 9.8 percent in the Midwest, two regions which had been slammed by winter storms in February. Sales fell 2.7 percent in the South and were down 0.9 percent ...
• Developing nations lack medical workers
The lack of medical workers in Africa is most pronounced in regions where AIDS is rampant as the disease has whittled away the ranks of health workers. “A nurse taking care of 400 patients is paid $3 a day in Malawi, not enough even for a bag of ...