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| Thu, 19 May 2005 16:00:00 EST A Wal-Mart wake-up? |
| For years, Wal-Mart has been known as a category killer, meaning that once it starts selling a particular product or service, Wal-Mart's sheer size—and its ability to cut costs through economies of scale—make it hard for smaller competitors to keep up. |
| Thu, 19 May 2005 14:00:00 EST Got PMS? |
| While fodder for too many jokes about women's behavior during that "certain time of the month," premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a very real and disabling condition. While as many as 75 percent of women suffer in some ways from the monthly irritability, anxiety, depression, mood swings that are commonly referred to as premenstrual disorder (PMS), for an estimated 3 to 9 percent of women these symptoms are so severe that they interfere with their normal lives. But why are some women more vulnerable than others? A new study that looks at brain receptors during the ovarian cycle in female mice may provide some clues for their larger, primate sisters. |
| Wed, 18 May 2005 16:00:00 EST Inflation check |
| One of the dark clouds hanging over Wall Street lifted this morning when a government report showed that inflation may not be as big a threat as was previously thought. |
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| Fri, 20 May 2005 09:37:58 EDT Hurricane Adrian slams El Salvador |
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| Fri, 20 May 2005 05:14:02 EDT Police probing possible clue to missing children |
| A tip that two missing children may have been spotted in an Idaho store has prompted a lookout for a tall man driving a light colored van, possibly now in northwestern Montana, investigators said. Authorities launched a massive search for 9-year-old Dylan and 8-year-old Shasta after their mother, brother and their mother's boyfriend were found slain in their Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, home. |
| Thu, 19 May 2005 15:53:52 EDT Tsunami-quake shook whole planet |
| Dramatic new data from the earthquake that generated deadly tsunamis across the Indian Ocean show it created the longest fault rupture and was the longest-lasting quake ever observed, an international group of seismologists said today. The quake created an 800-mile gash in the Earth's seabed and energy the equivalent of the amount used in the United States over six months, according to reports published in the journal "Science." |
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