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NetJets Unrest Puts Warren Buffett in a Rare Pinch
2015-01-06 05:31:43| Airlines - Topix.net
On a Saturday in mid-November, NetJets Inc. hosted several hundred of its wealthiest customers in the ballroom of the luxury Wynn resort in Las Vegas, where guests played poker alongside Warren Buffett with $950,000 in prizes at stake. Outside, dozens of uniformed NetJets pilots picketed against the private-jet company.
China scraps quotas on rare earths
2015-01-05 11:13:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
China scraps a quota system restricting exports of rare earth minerals after losing a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case.
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Rare photos shed light on Steve Jobs, and a young Silicon Valley
2015-01-02 21:20:36| IT Services - Topix.net
Scores and scores of photographs, captured by a deeply embedded photographer, offer an intimate portrait of Silicon Valley as it was translating the world from analog to digital. But at the whim of their brilliant and cantankerous subject, Steve Jobs, they were scarcely seen -- until now.
Local Teen Has Rare Illness
2015-01-01 19:55:24| Biotech - Topix.net
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a Santa Barbara teenager has been diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis, a paralyzing illness similar to polio, that targets the spinal cord.
Scientists report rare sightings tropical species off West Coast
2014-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: Scientists surveying whales and dolphins on the West Coast have discovered unusual species of birds and marine mammals far north of their normal ranges. Experts say fish and wildlife are being drawn northward by unusually warm ocean water. Every few years, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration take a head count of whales, dolphins and porpoises in the ocean off California, Oregon and Washington. Survey Leader Jay Barlow says this year`s team returned from the four-month...
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