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• Band Director Makes Sexual Harassment Claims
... director, Tom Slabaugh, was on the job for just one year before going on leave for stress and filing a sexual harassment claim against the entire 200-member band. Videos posted on the Internet show some band members skiing with their instruments ...
• Wall Street rebounds, pares massive losses
The auction is for credit default swaps, which are contracts used to insure against the default of financial instruments like bonds and corporate debt. They are traded in an approximately $60 trillion market that is unregulated. Many of these ...
• Britain plans financial rescue of top 4 banks
It said the banks were likely to have to own up to future losses from their exposure to subprime mortgages and other financial instruments. Last week, Britain unveiled a multibillion pound package aimed at stabilizing banks and getting them lending ...
• Satellites collect data on sea temperatures
... its Coral Reef Watch network has been expanded from 24 to 190 locations, including sites in the Florida Keys, the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, the Indian and Pacific oceans, Indonesia, Australia and Hawaii. The agency uses onsite water instruments to ...
• Sounds of volcanic eruption recreated
These so-called "low frequency events" are below the range of human hearing , but are detectable by instruments. Because they occur before the actual eruption, they could help predict when a volcano is about to blow. Geologists have suspected that ...