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Barnes and Noble leaves the tablet biz
2013-06-26 00:16:52| CNET News.com
Barnes and Noble gets out of the tablet business, Ouya sold out online, Sony ups its music service, and Windows 8.1 gets its start button back. [Read more]
Striped Corn Leaves Could Mean Nutrient Deficiencies
2013-06-24 20:07:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
By Jim Camberato, Purdue University Interveinal chlorosis of corn leaf tissue (striped corn) occurs to some extent every growing season. Several nutrient deficiencies result in similar striped corn symptoms that can be very difficult to distinguish, including deficiencies in sulfur, zinc and magnesium. Plant sampling and tissue analysis should be conducted to diagnose if corn leaf striping is due to a particular nutrient deficiency or multiple nutrient deficiencies or another factor unrelated to plant nutrition. read more
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NSA leaker Snowden leaves Hong Kong reportedly for Russia
2013-06-24 14:15:32| InfoWorld: Top News
Edward Snowden, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about the country's surveillance programs, left Hong Kong Sunday to a third country. Snowden left Hong Kong on his own accord for a third country through "a lawful and normal channel," despite an earlier request from the U.S. to Hong Kong for the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against him, the Hong Kong government said in a statement Sunday. The Hong Kong authorities did not name the country Snowden was headed to.
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BT CEO leaves to become govt minister
2013-06-19 15:16:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) BT CEO Ian Livingston is stepping down to become the UK government's Minister of State for Trade and Investment. BT announced that Gavin Patterson, currently CEO of BT Retail, will succeed Livingston as group CEO from September. Livingston has served as CEO for five years, having replaced Ben Verwaayen in June 2008. He will join the House of Lords prior to taking up his government post in December. Patterson has been at BT since 2004, when he joined as managing director of its consumer division. He previously spent four years at Telewest (which later merged with NTL to become Virgin Media), including as managing director of its consumer division. Before entering the communications sector, he spent nine years at Procter and Gamble, rising to become European marketing director.
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Obama leaves climate change-fighting tool on shelf for now
2013-06-16 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama has vowed to tackle climate change in his second term, but so far has not acted to strengthen a tool that does not require backing from Congress - the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA, a statute that dates to the Nixon administration, calls on officials to weigh whether projects such as highways, dams or oil drilling could harm the environment. While it does not have the power to block development, NEPA forces officials to consider the environment before approving...
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