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• New IDC Financial Insights Report Features Successful Mobile Payments Case Studies from Around the World.

Designed to identify best practices based on organizational structure FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- IDC Financial Insights today announced the availability o...

• Business Wire
• September 15, 2010

• Unearthed After 11,500 Years

WASHINGTON ABOUT 11,500 YEARS ago, one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in today's edition of the journal Science.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• February 25, 2011

• The Art of Persuasion

There are other factors in the arts community's increasing political influence in Raleigh. "Creativity, Ine," the 2010 Institute for Emerging Issues forum sponsored by the N.C. State University-based think tank, was devoted solely to issues involving creativity in commerce and education. A report from the forum, "New Thinking, New Jobs," termed creative thinking "the world's most valued commodity" and drew on research indicating that "right brain" skills, including creativity, problem solving, communication and collaboration, are now the most sought-after skills by top employers. It's a note a number of speakers return to repeatedly during the Arts Day forums this year. "Creativity means business?' Cultural Resources Secretary Linda Carlisle intoned at the start of her remarks. She late...

• Independent Weekly, The; Durham, N.C.
• June 22, 2010

• Quarterly Results Buoys Us Office Market: Colliers International Report ; --Occupancies Rise - Again; Large Office Blocks to Enter Endangered List As 'Multi-Stage Recovery' Gains Traction --

SEATTLE, Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. office market absorbed 6.5 million square feet of space on a net basis during the third quarter in a major improvement over the 1.8 million square feet of similar activity recorded in the prior quarter, according to new research from Colliers International. This latest report from Colliers International, one of the world's leading commercial real estate services firms, strengthens the argument that the nation's largest office hubs are in the early throes of a sustained recovery. Findings from the report also suggest that office users have a limited amount of time left before the market cycle once again begins to favor landlords and rising rents.

• U.S. Newswire
• November 03, 2010

• List Ranks Online College Programs

Stephens College's online program is one of the best in the country when it comes to student engagement, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The magazine today published its first review of top online bachelor's programs. Rankings were split into three categories.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• January 11, 2012

• Potpourri

West Virginia's two Republicans in Congress, Shelley Capito and David McKinley, both voted, in effect, to impose a $1,000-a-year tax increase on 160 million working Americans. They helped defeat a Senate-passed bill to lower the payroll withholding tax that supports Social Security. Republicans always say they want tax cuts but they mean for millionaires and billionaires, not for middle- class working Americans. Luckily, House GOP leaders realized that their party was suffering political damage, so they told Republican members to reverse course. nnn A Charleston politics-watcher suggested that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., be dubbed Tea Party Joe because he was the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate who stood with GOP militants in all votes against lowering the payroll withholding tax for 1...

• Charleston Gazette
• December 27, 2011

• U.N. Development Goals Fall Short ; Poor Nations Need More Aid, Report Contends

The worlds poorest countries are in severe danger of failing to meet ambitious economic and development goals set for the next decade, according to a new report from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The report, issued last month, said developing countries are not getting the economic aid they need, blaming contradictory economic policies on trade and aid in the worlds industrial countries.

• The Washington Times
• August 23, 2004

• Excellus: Personal Behaviors Influence Leading Causes of Death

The report notes that Excellus BCBS used information from the World Health Organization's "International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems." which established the uniform classifications for tracking causes of death in the United States.

• Business Journal - Central New York, The
• August 29, 2009

• Early-Human Child's Remains Found

WASHINGTON - Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in today's edition of Science journal. The bones represent the earliest human remains discovered in the Arctic of North America, a "pretty significant find," said Ben A. Potter, of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• February 25, 2011

• Arctic Human Remains Found -- 11,500-Year-Old Fossil Discovered in Alaska

WASHINGTON - About 11,500 years ago, one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers report in today 's edition of the journal Science.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• February 25, 2011