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• Satellites collect data on sea temperatures
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs worldwide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
• Small biz: Lots of gloom and doom, little data
If pessimism among small business owners is any indicator, the U.S. economy has not merely derailed. It has hurtled over a cliff and lies in smoking ruins at the bottom of a deep ravine. "Every day is a struggle and if we were not strong people, I ...
• Turning $1,000 Into $277 Trillion
The data shows that the way to beat the market isn't with stomach-curdling hot tamales but with boring value stocks. About that good news My colleague Bill Barker recently penned an article called "70 Times Better Than the Next Microsoft." In it, he ...
• Limit on cold remedies for kids was FDA's idea
Emergency-room data shows that they sicken some 7,000 kids a year, mostly because of overdoses. "There is a delicate dance between how much legal authority the FDA has and their use of the bully pulpit for getting some sort of compromise," said Dr ...
• Half of mammals are in decline, study finds
Mammals are declining faster than we thought," said Jan Schipper, lead author of a companion study being published this week in the journal Science. The International Union for Conservation of Nature released the data compiled by 1,700 experts in 130 ...