• Liberty's 49% -owned Discovery has seven all-digital channels--such as Science, Kids and Wings--on DirecTV and digital systems.

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  • His fast-growing company--revenue up 600% this year--manages e-mail for such corporate clients as E-trade, Sprint and AOL itself.

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  • Some prostate-cancer treatments-- such as surgery-- may also be responsible for the uptick in cardiovascular deaths, the researchers note.

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  • Certainly for-profit plans have a reputation for cost-cutting, whereas not-for-profits, such as Kaiser Permanente, are known for innovative health-care delivery.

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  • And there are the abiding pleasures like the old hill towns--very much lived-in and un-boutique-ified--such as Morellino di Scansano, Suvereto, and Magliano in Toscana.

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  • Dell's existing service business is at the low end, little more than extended-warranty tune-ups and installing such off-the-rack systems as Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail software.

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  • Besides the usual hatchback, sedan and SUV, car shoppers today can consider yet-to-be-categorized cars such as the Mazda5, a micro-minivan, or Mercedes-Benz's R-Class, a maxi-station wagon.

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  • The parliament's rapporteur on the energy strategy - Polish centre-right MEP Lena Kolarska-Bobinska - said cross-border energy infrastructure such as grids and pipelines needed to be extended.

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  • Depending upon your tax-bracket, an FSA can save you up to 40% on items you already pay for out-of-pocket (such as co-pays for doctor visits or prescription drugs).

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  • This is a nexus of private-equity and hedge funds, money-market funds and auction-rate securities, non-banks such as GE Capital and new securities such as CDOs and credit-default swaps.

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  • But it gave the green light to a slimmed-down version, with so-called "customer-facing" areas - such as libraries and one stop shops - staying within the council system.

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  • Another cause of the condition is the perception of a non-dangerous event -- such as turbulence or normal sounds that planes make -- as being an actual threat to one's safety.

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  • Decisions to avoid making right away are big real-estate transactions -- such as selling a house -- or anything that could have a material effect on savings, such as giving away money from life-insurance benefits.

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  • The course, offered at AS and A-level, will examine forms of writing - such as prose and poetry - and different types of content, such as travel writing or a sonnet or a radio play.

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  • How the success of "Nevermind" ignited a major-label feeding frenzy to find "the next Nirvana, " resulting in the signing of previously way-too-weird-for-a-major-label bands such as underground heroes The Jesus Lizard and Japanese noise-rockers the Boredoms.

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  • For cardiovascular exercise, weight-bearing, higher-impact activities such as walking, jogging and aerobics are better than nonweight-bearing or lower-impact exercise such as swimming, cycling and elliptical machines, which put less strain on your muscles and bones.

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  • Zyman, leveraging his own successful thirty-year marketing career at such big-name firms as Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ), has focused here on the marketing part of business management and growth.

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  • That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.

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  • The new tax is even more reason to move income-generating investments such as high-yield bonds or high-turnover mutual funds into tax-sheltered accounts such as IRAs, says Eric Lewis, a principal at Bedrock Capital Management, a financial-planning firm in Los Altos, Calif.

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  • Parents pay many young adults' tab for mobile entertainment, with 17% paying for mobile Wi-Fi access, 12% covering such streaming-video services as Netflix or Hulu and 10% covering streaming-music services, such as iTunes or Spotify, according to the recent Harris poll.

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  • The service's flat fee offers an alternative to pay-as-you-go stores such as Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), which appeal to music listeners who want to get access to lots of music every month without stealing it.

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  • "Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.

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  • By concentrating commercial and residential uses in one walkable community, MGM is translating for the Vegas crowd the ideas from the New Urbanist movement of the 1980s, which spawned warm-and-fuzzy insta-communities such as the 352-acre town of Kentlands in Maryland and Walt Disney Co.

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  • We will continue to cooperate with the United States to -- for the capacity buildings of our officials and for development of our -- development of social -- in the area of social -- such as education and health -- public health care services for the people of Myanmar.

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  • "If you love reading and are looking to invest a chunk of money into a device as a dedicated e-reader, then the iPad is not your best bet, " Cesar Torres, of CNN content partner ArsTechnica , wrote last year in a review comparing the third-generation iPad to e-readers such as the third-generation Kindle. (That iPad has the same screen as the most recent one).

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  • From there on the solar manufacturing world began to crumble and, along the way, we saw the demise of high-profile U.S. startups such as Solyndra and Abound Solar and the bankruptcies of long-time players such as Q-Cells in Germany.

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  • It has happened because rich-world companies have replaced workers with new technology to boost productivity and shifted production from labour-intensive products such as textiles to higher-tech, higher value-added, sectors such as pharmaceuticals.

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  • The report concluded that on most federal-state programs -- such as Medicaid and food stamps -- data-exchange points have been identified.

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  • In April, the government will implement a system that would replace the main means-tested benefits-- such as income and housing support -- with a single payment.

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  • And, perhaps most importantly, if you went for a traditional low-riding supercar--such as the Aston Martin Vanquish--instead of the Arnage T, you couldn't put a six-foot-two-inch driver up front and another passenger of equal height in the backseat, because there wouldn't even be a backseat, let alone a huge trunk.

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