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• Law's impact on jobs at issue March 10, 2010
  Debate over the economic effects of California's first-in-the-nation global warming law flared this week, with a report saying short-term job losses can be expected.
• Pint-size mammoth is a big deal; 42,000-year-old specimen is unusually well-preserved March 9, 2010
  For 42,000 years, Lyuba, a baby woolly mammoth, was preserved almost perfectly intact, right down to her baby fat, in frigid Siberian river muck. Now released from her icy grave, she is being preserved in much the same manner as another ...
• Scientists Propose A More Efficient Way To Make Ethanol March 9, 2010
  Producing ethanol from corn is relatively easy: the corn's abundant sugars are readily fermented into alcohol. But using what is essentially a food crop to produce fuel has been criticized as a misuse of resources that can harm both ...
• Environment (A Special Report) --- The View From Big Oil: Peter Voser of Royal Dutch Shell talks about the kind of energy legislation he'd like to see March 8, 2010
  These days, giant oil companies find themselves trying to balance two big pressures on their business. Governments are trying to slash carbon emissions -- but the world's thirst for oil is growing by leaps and bounds. Peter Voser, chief ...
• Environment (A Special Report) --- The View From Big Oil: Peter Voser of Royal Dutch Shell talks about the kind of energy legislation he'd like to see March 8, 2010
  These days, giant oil companies find themselves trying to balance two big pressures on their business. Governments are trying to slash carbon emissions -- but the world's thirst for oil is growing by leaps and bounds. Peter Voser, chief ...
• Asia Setting Torrid Pace For Mergers March 4, 2010
  NEW DELHI -- As both companies and countries in the West and Japan stumble under debt and fear, a new enthusiasm for deals has already emerged this year in India, China and other developing countries.
• So Who's Next? Patti Smith And Others March 4, 2010
  Two mature women paid the best tributes to Pete Townshend's songs in ''The Music of the Who'': 21 acts performing a selection each on Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall.
• INVESTING MISTAKES March 3, 2010
  There's more than one way to sabotage your investments. Investors make countless mistakes when it comes to how they manage their money. However, a forgiving bull market has usually helped mitigate the pain of the blunders.
• Lure and risk in emerging markets March 3, 2010
  Will 2010 be the year that India, China and other emerging countries become deal-making hot spots? Swollen with cash from domestic economies growing much faster than those in the West, companies from the developing world are on the prowl for ...
• Cellulosic Ethanol Trails Ambitions March 3, 2010
  Makers of cellulosic ethanol warn that ambitious U.S. government goals to significantly boost production of the technologically advanced fuel over the next 12 years won't be met without stronger backing from Washington.
• Wild and woolly: Baby mammoth preserved; Field Museum to showcase Lyuba, found intact in Siberia March 2, 2010
  Lyuba, the baby woolly mammoth that goes on display this week at the Field Museum, was preserved almost perfectly intact, right down to her baby fat, for 42,000 years in frigid Siberian river muck.
• 5 myths about your mail February 28, 2010
  For 235 years, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered your mail in snow, rain and dark of night. However, tough market conditions are creating new challenges for our business. Misconceptions about the future of our enterprise abound; ...
• Boca firm to install fueling stations February 27, 2010
  Protec Fuel, a Boca Raton firm that specializes in ethanol-fuel management, was awarded $900,000 by the U.S. Department of Energy to install 30 E85 fueling stations.
• Blockbuster Flops; True Religion Rises 18% February 26, 2010
  NEW YORK -- Small-capitalization stocks ended mixed as an increase in weekly jobless claims sent the market reeling early before a late-afternoon rise reversed much of the drop.
• Clean power, from a box loads of power California startup hopes to energize a revolution in electricity production February 26, 2010
  SAN FRANCISCO - Bloom Energy, one of Silicon Valley's most secretive startups, unveiled on Wednesday its long-awaited "power plant in a box," a collection of fuel cells that the company says can provide clean electricity to homes, office ...