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• Pet food case settlement may be upped to $32M
If any money is left after all plaintiffs are paid, it would go to animal-welfare charities. But the agreement did not include any money for the humans' pain and suffering from injuries to their pets. In one court filing this month, the parties that ...
• American Paul Krugman wins economics Nobel
Because this enhances the welfare of consumers in that country, its population would increase as more people moved there, which would lead to additional increases in real wages. The Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and ...
• Stepbrother charged in N.Y. girl's death
... found unconscious in her bedroom with a green cord around her neck, one end caught on a nail in a window frame. Lindsey Maxwell, 35, the girl's father, and Lynn Maxwell, 53, her stepmother, were each charged with six counts of endangering the welfare ...
• Flight of the penguins to freedom off Brazil
The release mission was undertaken by Brazil's Marine Mammals Institute and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "We are overjoyed to see these penguins waddle back to the ocean and have a second chance at life," Valeria Ruoppolo, IFAW's Latin ...
• Robot suit for rent in Japan to help people walk
Sankai said the HAL technology is devoted to social welfare purposes only, adding he has refused requests from military officials to share it. Some European nations have already expressed interest and HAL may soon be on the market there, but U.S ...