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Sonal Shah of Google to craft the incoming administration's high tech policy priorities.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: President-elect Barack Obama's Transition Team have announced leaders for a series of Policy Working Groups for the Presidential Transition that includes Indian-American Sonal Shah of Google to craft the incoming administration's high tech policy priorities.
The focus of the Policy Working Groups will be to develop the priority policy proposals and plans from the Obama Campaign for
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The first black man elected US president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nati
Thursday, November 20, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Washington: The first black man elected US president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation’s first black attorney general — a historic appointment but one with some potential political problems over a 2001 pardon.
Holder, 57, met President-elect Barack Obama only four years ago, but the affable Bronx-born son of a Barbados immigrant quickly won a seat in the Democrat’s inn
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Barack Obama has reportedly picked a former high-ranking Clinton administration aide to serve as the
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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WASHINGTON: President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly picked a former high-ranking Clinton administration aide to serve as the next attorney
general, the country's top law enforcement official.
Eric Holder, a former US attorney who served as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton, would be the nation's first black attorney general. An Obama official and two
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Priyanka Chopra will be joined by Hollywood biggies like Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro among others in
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra will be joined by Hollywood biggies like Kylie Minogue, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Janet Jackson at the opening of the much-hyped ‘Atlantis, The Palm’ resort in Dubai on November 20, according to reports.
Minogue will headline a show alongside Middle-Eastern pop sensations Nawal at the much-hyped event, reports Conta
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NASA successfully tested first deep space communications network modeled on Internet.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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New York: The US space agency NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million mile
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Regular exercise can reduce a woman’s risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.dnaindia.com
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WASHINGTON: Regular exercise can reduce a woman’s risk of cancer, but the benefits may slip away if she gets too little sleep, American researchers said on Monday.
The study involving 5,968 women confirmed previous findings that people who do regular physical activity are less likely to develop cancer. But when the researchers looked at the women ages 18 to 65 who were in the upper half in terms
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Asian markets were mixed as confirmation that Japan has slipped into recession.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Asian markets were mixed on Monday as confirmation that Japan has slipped into recession emphasised the gloomy outlook for the world economy.
A weekend meeting of world leaders in Washington to discuss reform of the stricken global financial system provided a symbolic show of unity between rich and emerging nations but produced few concrete measures.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average e
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At one time John Podesta worked to douse scandals, outmanoeuvre Republicans and keep Bill Clinton po
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: John Podesta, a leader of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, was the Clinton administration official who worked to douse scandals, outmanoeuvre Republicans and keep Bill Clinton popular even through impeachment. He's now in charge of a 450-person staff whose experts - including Podesta himself - aren't always in sync with those of his new boss.
Podesta has proposed a d
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A clinical trial in the US looks to treat a heart patient using his own stem cell.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Washington: A team of researchers at the University of Utah is recruiting people in a new clinical trial to treat ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure using patient’s own stem cells.
The one-year study will examine the safety of injecting Cardiac Repair Cells (CRC) and their ability to improve heart function.
Participants in the study will have their own bone marrow cells drawn, which will th
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Citigroup, the US bank with the farthest global reach, announced the biggest round of job cuts.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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Washington: Citigroup, the US bank with the farthest global reach, announced the biggest round of job cuts since the financial crisis erupted last year, slashing 15 per cent of its workforce in a bid to return to profitability.
The cuts come on top of 23,000 reductions Citigroup had already announced and lag only the 60,000 layoffs by IBM in July 1993 as the largest ever, according to outplacemen
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