• Even though those are protected areas in many cases, because the prey has been hunted out.

    NPR: Q&A: Conservationist Alan Rabinowitz

  • Interestingly, the payout includes folks who bought e-books from Macmillan and Penguin, even though those two publishers aren't settling.

    ENGADGET: States reach $69 million settlement with three publishers in e-book price fixing case

  • We also did financing for Turner Broadcasting, using its old MGM movies as collateral, even though those movies were written down to zero.

    FORBES: Dow Jones Interactive

  • Even though those responsible for posting the comments and images remain unknown, the financial penalty will be enforced should they ever be identified.

    BBC: Judge rules three were defamed on Facebook

  • Even though those understanding the complex characters are ever fewer, the art of seal engraving is still practised by both professionals and amateurs.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Brent crude prices have fallen on hopes that oil production in Libya will return soon, even though those assumptions may prove to be overly optimistic.

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  • He published a study last week showing that ratings for children's channels were lower in households with Netflix, even though those households are more likely to have children.

    WSJ: Viacom's SpongeBob Crisis

  • For example, investors seem to hate stocks that are priced relatively low compared with book value, even though those stocks consistently have had higher long-term returns than flashy, high price-to-book stocks.

    FORBES: Primate Economics

  • The rule targets equipment that power plants and manufacturing facilities use to draw in water to prevent overheating, even though those intake systems are not harmful to human health or water quality.

    WSJ: Rob Portman: The Regulatory Cliff Is Nearly as Steep as the Fiscal One

  • Last year, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that an unnamed private S corporation could deduct the full cost of owning two fractional shares in jets, even though those planes were used just 5% of the time for business.

    FORBES: U.S. Congress Grounds High-Flying Execs

  • Leading executives have complained bitterly that the new approach will paint a misleading picture of corporate finances because firms will have to report swings in the value of their derivatives even though those swings will eventually be offset by changes in their underlying business.

    ECONOMIST: Derivatives

  • Next year's crop is sure to set a new record, even though only those who score over 5% in the first round get public finance.

    ECONOMIST: The French presidential race

  • That may account for the spiteful glee with which some critics attacked him when it was discovered he hadn't put quotation marks around certain passages in his books that had been taken from other works--even though all those passages were fully footnoted.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Bloomberg's order won't apply to alcoholic beverages, even though many of those are loaded with calories, especially beers and ales, or to dairy-based drinks.

    CNN: Big Gulp? Meet Big Brother

  • The findings may encourage cities like New York and Los Angeles, the densest in the country--though even in those places roughly half of adults are deemed overweight.

    FORBES: Sprawling Cities, Higher Scales

  • Finances have also strengthened, even though most of those who check in to Citrus Valley are on Medicare or Medi-Cal (a version of Medicaid for low-income Californians).

    FORBES: Physician, Heal Thyself: How a Hospital in California Became a Model of Change Management

  • The suit cites a secret industry study that surveyed smokers from 12 to 20 years old, even though many of those surveyed are not legally allowed to smoke.

    ECONOMIST: Big Tobacco cut down to size, yet again | The

  • In a Vanguard survey, only a third of the semiretired had stayed with their current employer, even though more of those planning partial retirement expressed a desire to do so.

    FORBES: Retire Like Roger

  • Since 2003 British Airways, led by Chief Executive William "Willie" Walsh , has shut large call centers in London, Glasgow and Toronto, though even with those closures, there was still "too much property for the size of our operation, " according to George.

    FORBES: Walsh's BA Restructures As More Bookings Go Online

  • Even when Symbian was the de facto king of the smartphones, it never gained a solid foothold in the US. Developers flocked to iOS, and to a lesser extent the nascent Android platform, even though numerically in those days Symbian was the larger platform.

    FORBES: Should Windows Phone Drop Its US Focus To Thrive ?

  • Even though all of those women work hard, have talent, and deserve our respect, the ecstatic reactions to Fey and Poehler kind of feel like that moment in the movies when the underdogs finally triumph and get their moment in the sun, surrounded by applause and confetti and tiaras and a bonanza of fireworks.

    FORBES: Celebration Time: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Host Golden Globes

  • Even though it has all those closed KMart and Sears stores, what are they worth?

    FORBES: Connect

  • At the same time, though, even those people were ready to admit that going on actual "dates" was full of pressure and not very enjoyable.

    CNN: Why traditional dating is dead

  • One of the reasons for its bottom-line woes is the fact that the company has been investing in trying to develop new products, even though too few of those have made it out of the gate as yet.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Nor do we see the same type of frequent mass shootings in other wealthy countries as we see in the United States, even though the citizens of those countries consume the exact same violent media and play the same monster-creating games.

    FORBES: Violence And Video Games In America

  • None of that's saying much, though: even with those dimensions, the TF300 manages to be slimmer than the new Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and Acer Iconia Tab A200, two similarly priced tablets that measure .41 and .49 inches thick, respectively.

    ENGADGET: ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 review

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