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The dialect birth b deliver’s next space tourist, a computer game wizard, said Wednesday he’s spending the bulk of his fortune on his $30 million gamble this fall.
Richard Garriott will make history as the first child of an American astronaut to rocket into orbit, and his dad will keep in touch with him during [...]

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NEW YORK (Fortune) — Corning’s guesswork fails to keep people confident about its glassworks.
The grown-up glassmaker posted inline adjusted profits on slightly weaker-than-expected sales Wednesday. And though unfavorable foreign exchange rates will cut top line regulation below Wall Street targets, the company says LCD TV sales are humming along just fine, thanks.
But Corning (GLW, [...]

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Pond scum. The thought typically evokes images that leave most people cringing, but it may one heyday occupy an important role in the nation’s vigour supply.
The course fuel crunch, driven fundamentally by a rising global demand for oil, has spurred debate mid consumers, political leaders, academics and entrepreneurs just about plausible alternatives.
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Arthur C. Clarke’s health was failing unshakeable, but he in any event had a white to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the longtime friends wrote what turned out to be Clarke’s pattern novel.
"The Last Theorem," which grew from 100 pages of notes scribbled by Clarke, is [...]

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NEW YORK (Fortune) — After striking out with its triple play in the second quarter, Verizon will be swinging even harder for the fences as it brings TV to Manhattan.
Prior to releasing a middling earnings report Monday, Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) announced its plan to sell a bundle of TV, Net and phone services [...]

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(Fortune) — Poor Chris Gorog. He’s the guy who predicted he could make a hit out-dated of a legal version of Napster, the treasonous Internet music file-sharing service that attracted 26 million monthly users until it was driven into bankruptcy by record industry lawsuits.
That was back in 2002 when Gorog was CEO of Roxio, [...]

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Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable — only this but it’s not for sale.
Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to make grow [...]

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Mary Babb was in her SUV last year when her estranged hubby slammed into her with his pickup truck. The crash overturned Babb’s vehicle and progressive her suspended upside-down by her seat belt.
As she hung there helplessly, Thomas Babb fired two rounds from a shotgun, killing his wife in front of horrified witnesses outside [...]

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From Dallas, Texas to Dabancheng, China, energy companies are staking fortunes on harnessing ascendancy power.
Several Texan conveyance companies announced Monday they were forming a consortium to invest in the $5 billion cost of building new power lines to rent advantage of the state’s vast wind power.
The consortium, comprised of existing transferral operators, [...]

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Save energy — two words that have before you can turn around befit a modern day mantra. But some are straight away occasionally asking, at what cost?
One person asking that grill is City University of Hong Kong’s professor Ron Hui, chairman of the electronic engineering department, and co-author of a latest paper published in [...]

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