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'Floating-rate' funds pay handsomely—at least for now.

The government has decided to prolong to the end of September its crackdown on retailers that are illegally collecting fees, signaling that the year-long campaign has yet to yield satisfactory results.

Watching Sept. 11 attacks prompted immigrant to join Marines because he 'had to do something'Mountains Yield Hundreds of WWII-Era Plane Crashes

The typical supermarket tomato: ripe red, firm to the touch, free of blemishes--and of flavor. Since at least the 1970s, U.S. consumers have lamented the beautiful but bland fruits that farmers breed not for taste, but rather for high yield and durability during shipping. Recently, organic farmers and foodies have championed the superior flavors of heirloom tomatoes --older varieties that come...

The ink's been dry for 160 million years--but scientists have for the first time confirmed pigment in two fossilized ink sacs from cuttlefish-like animals, a new study says...from National Geographic News

Concerned about the well-being of the mother of a newborn baby found dead in a strawberry field, Ventura County detectives said they are focusing their investigation on finding the woman. A farmworker found the baby's body Monday morning near a row of poppies bordering the field in the 3200 block of Central Avenue near Camarillo, authorities said. Evidence suggests the baby was born in the fie...

Will Iran yield on its nuclear plans at a key Baghdad summit?

Still soft ink sacs from 160-million-year-old squidlike animals have yielded pigment matching that of modern cuttlefish.

Falling soup sales are leaving a bad taste in investors' mouths. But with a 3.5% dividend yield, we'd be nibbling.

LONDON (AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."...

* Deal could yield about $100 mln in fees for bankers, lawyers

MatthewVD writes "German scientists have modified Google's PageRank algorithm to scan tumors and learn more about how cancers progress. PageRank orders results based on how other web pages are connected to them via hyperlinks; the modified algorithm, NetRank, scans how genes and proteins in a cell are similarly connected through a network of interactions with their neighbors. This approach coul...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Unable to shake their worries about Europe, investors drove stocks to a four-month low Thursday and piled into bonds, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury note close to an all-time low....

"Then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit." Leviticus 26:4.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Thursday his country is seeking "cooperation" from world powers in next week's nuclear talks in Baghdad and warned against pressure by the West.Saeed Jalili said the talks in the Iraqi capital have to recognize Iran's rights to a nuclear program, insisting Tehran will not yield to any "pressure strategy."Read More...More on Iran ...

A strong laser beam can remove an electron from an atom – a process which takes place almost instantly. This phenomenon could now be studied with a time resolution of less than ten attoseconds (ten billionths of a billionth of a second). Scientists succeeded in watching an atom being ionized and a free electron being “born”.  These measurements yield valuable information about the electrons in ...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- IOC President Jacques Rogge does not expect a "flood of positive cases" when the Olympic body retests doping samples from the 2004 Athens Games before they are destroyed this summer....

PHOENIX (AP) -- Federal authorities sued America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff Thursday after months of negotiations failed to yield an agreement to settle allegations that his department racially profiled Latinos in his trademark immigration patrols....

Rangers' administrators expect to know by Thursday if a deal can be done to safeguard the club's future by the end of this week.

Borrowing costs rose in Spain Wednesday, with the 10-year yield crossing the 6% mark for the first time in two weeks amid rising concerns about the banking sector.

'Monogamous' female birds often produce young with another partner. This was presumed to yield offspring fitter than those produced with the paired partner, but a study of song sparrows suggests that 'cheating' comes with no evolutionary reproductive benefit.Jane Reid at the University of Aberdeen,

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) are up 22 cents, almost 2%, at $12.48 after Nomura Equity Research’s Romit Shah raised his rating on the stock to Buy from Neutral, while maintaining his $16 price target, writing “enough is enough,” that the stock has an enviable 20% free cash flow yield based on its enterprise value, and [...]

STOCKS FELL, the euro weakened for a third day against the dollar and Germany’s five-year note yield fell to a record amid concern about employment markets in Europe and the United States yesterday.

NAROWAL - As much as 1,236 metric tonnes increase has been expected in wheat production during the current year here in the district which is more than the previous year. The wheat harvesting will start from May 1 with about 15 days delay from its normal harvesting due to recent rains. The farmers who have made untiring efforts to get a good crop, are also seemed happy to harvest a good yieldin...

NAROWAL - As much as 1,236 metric tonnes increase has been expected in wheat production during the current year here in the district which is more than the previous year. The wheat harvesting will start from May 1 with about 15 days delay from its normal harvesting due to recent rains. The farmers who have made untiring efforts to get a good crop, are also seemed happy to harvest a good yieldin...

The Best of Instagram Series is presented by T-Mobile. Its 4G Tweet Race, a week-long campaign launching May 3, pits Twitter users against one a…

With less than a month to the much-anticipated meeting in Baghdad between Iran and the “P5+1” nations, indications are that the two sides are seriously contemplating successful talks that could yield a mutually acceptable breakthrough and pave the way to a gradual resolution of the Iran nuclear crisis. The “P5+1”, also known as the “Iran Six” - the permanent ...

Chevron’s earnings rose in the first quarter, something other U.S. energy giants couldn’t pull off. The company raised its dividend by 11% too. Yet shares of the integrated oil giant Chevron (CVX) were flat Friday, near $106.30. The big integrated exploration and refining companies admittedly don’t offer big swings in price, unless commodity prices are [...]

A bus rider was fighting for his life in a hospital Thursday with serious head injuries after he was slugged by a fellow passenger on a Santa Monica Big Blue Bus in an attack captured on security video.

Two-thirds of police forces have failed to meet government savings targets, says National Audit OfficePolice forces across England and Wales face making deeper spending cuts after Whitehall's spending watchdog identified a £500m "black hole" in their plans to meet their required savings targets as part of the government's austerity programme.The National Audit Office (NAO)says police forces hav...

Organic farming may yield up to a third less of some crop types, according to a study proposing a hybrid with conventional agriculture as the best way to feed the world without destroying it

International Business Machines Corp.'s board approved a 13 percent dividend increase and authorized an additional $7 billion to buy back shares as the company looks to return more of its rising cash levels to shareholders.

The 'Bonfire of the Quangos' could yield £1billion less in savings than had been envisaged, a report by the public spending watchdog has found.

NINE will write close to a record $140 million in advertising revenue from the Olympics.

Coke and Colgate and McDonald's could keep rising until their dividend yields (now between 2% and 3%) reach parity with the yield on 10-year Treasuries.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary is considering a new tax on phone calls and Internet usage which could yield up to 50 billion forints ($221.38 million) a year and would help plug budget holes, website Origo.hu reported on Friday, citing economy ministry sources.

Silvio Berlusconi on Friday made a rare appearance at his trial in Milan for having sex with an under age prostitute at a hearing expected to yield sordid claims about the former premier's parties.

SILVIO Berlusconi on Friday made a rare appearance at his trial in Milan for having sex with an underage prostitute at a hearing expected to yield sordid claims about the former premier's parties.

HSBC plans to sell 2 billion yuan ($317 million) renminbi senior bonds in London with a yield of 3 percent.

Should the yield on Indonesia's latest dollar debt issuance really be just two percentage points above what comparable U.S. Treasurys pay?

Spain's benchmark 10-year bond yield has soared above 6 per cent, threatening a dangerous new crisis in the eurozone.

Davey Johnson today was talking about the importance of velocity compared to location, or, in his parlance, throwing vs. pitching. Johnson, as he is wont to do, told a pretty cool story. I’ll yield to him: Read full article >>

Paper books vs. e-books: I still can't decideIs blogging and tweeting about research papers worth it? The Verdict Open Access To Scientific information: Policy Guidelines Released by UNESCOReceptivity to Library Involvement in Scientific Data Curation: A Case Study at the University of Colorado BoulderHow Librarians Can Successfully Navigate the 7 Cs of Social MediaWhy Gamification Can't Be Sto...

We've always been interested in the Notion Ink project, which has always striven to be a true alternative to both the iPad and Android masses. Last time, it was through both a Pixel Qi screen and an interesting custom interface, but delays and yield problems more or less buried it and competitors piled up. The sequel to Notion Ink's Adam was originally going to have a 10" screen running at 192...

An effort to identify illegal immigrants who committed crimes led to confusion among authorities before it started to yield results, according to two reports from the inspector general.

The intellectual culture of scientism clouds alternative ways of knowing that can actually yield greater certainty than science.

I'm late to this, but the latest e-book by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas is excerpted on the home page this morning, with a revealing look into Romneyland: Members of Mitt Romney’s inner circle acknowledge they still have yet to solve the key challenge they face in trying to help him win the presidency — finding a way to make an emotionally remote and fabulously wealthy candidate connect with av...

High yield stock comes with higher-than-average risk

The reputation, products and services of a well established tech company will not attract the people in terms of investing. It's the dividend yield that brings them more. Here are the 6 tech companies which will give you the best returns.

Merchant Trust's Simon Gergel: maintaining a 6pc yield and capital growth.

Bond yields had their biggest move since October last week, with a sell-off that lifted the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds to 2.31 percent.

We stay at TripAdvisor's top-ranked hotels in New Orleans, New York City and Washington and see what makes them special — or not.

Ireland's first oil well off the County Cork coast is set to yield 4,000 barrels a day.

Development of regenerative therapeutic strategies to reverse the progression of advanced heart failure is one of the most urgent clinical needs of this century. Insights gained from clinical trials of adult stem cells, together with fundamental scientific advances in cardiac stem cell and regenerative biology, are beginning to yield potential new targets and strategies for regenerative therapi...

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) -- Urging conservatives not to yield, Republican Rick Santorum told supporters Wednesday that they could make the GOP presidential contest a two-man race if they deliver him a victory next week and offer an embarrassing loss to rival Newt Gingrich in the South....

This is one drink that is as easy as it is delicious. It's just three ingredients: whiskey (bourbon, but you could also use spicy rye),...

In his first extensive remarks on the Syria crisis, Kofi Annan, the former U.N. chief and current U.N.-Arab League envoy, made no mention of what has become the centerpiece of the Arab League's diplomatic strategy: a political transition to a government of national unity. The omission may be a bit of diplomatic wizardry by the U.N. veteran, a shrewd effort to downplay a provision that...

Oxford Nanopore's approach reads longer stretches of DNA at once—and could more accurately spot structural variations linked to certain diseases.

FARC's offer to release "prisoners" may not immediately yield peace talks with the government.

Hybrid strategy may yield long-awaited quantum computers

The bank reports a £3.5bn loss, linked to mis-selling, but says a restructuring programme will yield cost savings more quickly than expected

Attorneys for the injured San Francisco Giants fan ask that court to yield to Los Angeles Superior Court.The Dodgers should not be allowed to use the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to minimize their liability to Bryan Stow, attorneys for the injured San Francisco Giants fan argued Wednesday.

After including no!no! Skin in my Gizmodo gift guide for obsessive groomers last year, the fine folks at no! no! sent me a test unit of their zit zapper. Even though the device is "FDA cleared," I was skeptical it would work on my face (yes I stil break out at my age, why god why?). I somehow figured I had extra gross stubborn acne that would refuse...

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Scientists in the Netherlands say they hope to begin producing the first laboratory-grown hamburger by fall, according to news reports out of ...

Turbo-charging photosynthesis — by which plants and bacteria turn sunlight into food and energy — in an “artificial leaf” could  yield a vast commercial power source, scientists say.

Social welfare control and fraud prevention measures last year will lead to projected savings of €645 million, the Department of Social Protection said today.

I.B.M. is the world's largest employer of Ph.D.'s. It has plenty of businesses it can throw them at, but the trick is figuring out which ones will yield the best return. That happens by finding the algorithms for one industry, like power generation, that will work in another, like traffic management.

THIS IS an inauspicious moment to expect lawmakers to yield any partisan weapon. But one thing Congress could do to unclog the federal government is so obvious and requires lawmakers to give up so little, even the most ardent partisan should be able to support it. Read full article >>

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday the Islamic Republic would not yield to international pressure to abandon its nuclear course, threatening retaliation for sanctions aimed at Iran's oil exports.

The region can be frustratingly difficult to pin down, but its varied reds often yield impressive results

Chilean private pension funds have returned positive real growth over the last nine years, despite several of the system's multifunds falling in value during 2011, local pensions association AAFP said...

The wreck of the warship Victory has been a topic of public debate in Britain because documents suggest it carried gold coins that today could be worth up to $1 billion.

Astronomers say that areas of frantic star formation in the Universe's early days fed supermassive black holes, and led to the largest galaxies we see.

After a good dividends run the big-cap yield trade may be concealing risks. Consider two big high-yielding US telecoms groups as examples

FUND manager Simon Marais has become a shareholder activist by default.

The available options for a savings vehicle with a 5% yield in this current low rate environment require much more risk than a CD.

In the biggest single-day seizure of cash since the enforcement of the model code of conduct, Static Surveillance Teams have confiscated Rs 18 crore from UP on Monday.

A former senior UN nuclear official says Iran seems to be testing atomic fuel intended for a planned reactor which could yield nuclear bomb material.

College kids may choose to spend their campus days studying the glories of Plato, Shakespeare and Le Corbusier. But, as a new study points out, there may be a steep price to pay. Recent college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in the arts, humanities and architecture experienced significantly higher rates of joblessness, according to a study being released Wednesday by Georgetown University’s ...

Move effectively doubles annual yield to 5%

Arsenal 1 Wolves 1:ARSENAL WILL wonder how what amounted to a second-half siege failed to yield the victory that would have lifted them into the Premier League’s top four.

An optic fiber emitting infrared light from a diode laser has been placed just one millimeter away from the developing heart of a two-day old quail embryo. As the laser pulse changes its speed, the heart alters its beat to match. This system is the first time that the whole heart of a living animal has been paced with light--a method that could yield insight into the development of heart defect...

Gains to quantum efficiency could yield around a 35 percent gain in conversion efficiency, the key metric

Investors continue to worry about financial health of euro zone; Italian bond yield reaches new high

Scientists assessing mammal diversity on Costa Rican coffee farms puzzle over why some sample sites yield more mammal captures than others.

American shoppers in search of cheap toys and televisions raced to stores in high numbers after Thanksgiving dinner, signaling that a gambit by big store chains to open at midnight succeeded in drawing more customers.

Government backing for select capital-intensive research projects could yield breakthroughs that spark a return to robust growth

The yield on UK Government 10-year bonds fell to 2.16 per cent, while the equivalent German costs rose to 2.21 per cent, in a sign that investors have more faith in Britain's ability to cope with its debts.

If the agreement holds up, it would make President Ali Abdullah Saleh the fourth leader forced from power in the uprisings that have shaken the Middle East and North Africa.

The protracted and arduous tennis year will yield a bitter late season harvest this week if Andy Murray is forced to withdraw from the final showcase that London has been proud to host.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's prime minister-designate said on Monday he was ready to name a government to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections but gave no details of a line-up that may involve a delicate power balance in a fragile new state.Three months after Muammar Gaddafi fled Tripoli in the face of a revolt against his 42-year rule, Abdurrahim El-Keib said he would name ...

Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi last night defiantly spurned calls for his resignation as he faced record borrowing costs and reports of the defection of more than 30 deputies in his People of Freedom party.

ITALIAN PREMIER Silvio Berlusconi last night defiantly spurned calls for his resignation as he faced record borrowing costs and reports of the defection of more than 30 deputies in his People of Freedom party.

Winemakers find picking grapes in the dead of night results in better wine, lower energy costs and happier workers.

Patent applications for so-called green technologies will be put on the approval fast track thanks to a new pilot program announced Monday by the U.S. Commerce Department's Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This could mean patent approvals in a year rather than the standard 40-month wait time, giving inventors of alternative fuels, improved carbon capture methods and electric vehicle batter...