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  • SUV crash survival more likely SUV crash survival more likely

    Passengers in SUVs are now known to be more likely to survive a serious crash. A new study conducted by the University of Buffalo in the US has found the driver of the SUV is as much as 10 times more likely to survive in a head-on collision where a passenger car is involved. While automakers have taken steps to improve safety in normal passenger cars, such as changing bumper designs on ...

  • Spanish surplus figures improve Spanish surplus figures improve

    Spain has reported a trade surplus, the first since 1971. With imports slumping due to austerity measures, the first monthly trade surplus for more than 40 years is being seen as a positive development. However, the country is still suffering from an economic downturn with unemployment in Spain now running at 26.7%. The surplus of 634.9 million euros in March reflects a 15% plunge in ...

  • Letta may abolish unpopular taxes Letta may abolish unpopular taxes

    Italy's coalition government has promised to abolish some salaries and perks which are handed out to government ministers. A controversial property tax will also be abolished, or frozen, by the new government of Enrico Letta, who has also promised to do away with the double salary received by some parliamentarians. Before the election, it had been mooted by Letta's coalition partners that ...

  • Famous New York artists bring huge prices Famous New York artists bring huge prices

    Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat smashed all previous auction records at Christie's in New York during the week. In fact, several works by popular artists brought extraordinary prices. The items made $495 million for their owners at the valuable sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's. However, a single Andy Warhol Painting of Marilyn ...

  • Thai phone operators told to lower charges Thai phone operators told to lower charges

    3G operators in Thailand have all agreed to cut their tariffs. The Thai National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has been pressuring providers to lower all their 2G and 3G tariffs by 15%. The three 3G mobile operators, Advanced Info Service, Total Access Communication and True Move have said they will launch new 3G tariff packages to reflect the request by government. It ...


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The Beastmaster [DVD]

The Beastmaster [DVD]

Here is a quandary for me as a film critic -- a review of Don Coscarelli's 1982 sword-and-sorcery favorite The Beastmaster. The problem is this: When I was in fourth grade, this was my favorite movie. Back in the early days of cable television, I had taped it off of HBO and watched it whenever I could. I had a young boy's crush on its heroine, played by Tanya Roberts, and I even used it as ... ...

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    "We don’t have to worry about a recession - we are in a depression," says James Rickards."If you take the classic definition of a sustained, long-term downturn with economic growth below trend, then we are in the midst of a depression," says the senior managing director of Tangent Capital and author of "Currency Wars."Rickards doesn’t see Fed Chairman ...

  • France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously Bundesbank head

    France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above target, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said in an interview published on ...

  • These Cloud Stocks Can Fly Pros

    cloud computing , which allows consumers and businesses to access data and applications anywhere, anytime. "You have to focus on cloud as a tech investor at this point," Ken Allen, technology portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, told CNBC this week. "It cuts across the industry, across subsectors." Given cloud computing's potential, Wall Street analysts remain bullish on ...

  • Google Faces Fresh Claims On Tax Avoidance

    A former Google executive has accused the company of cheating the taxpayer out of hundreds of millions of pounds. Barney Jones claims the firm has been running an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme for the past decade. The 34-year-old, who worked at the company between 2002 and 2006, made his allegations to The Sunday Times. "The real victims are ordinary taxpayers in Britain ...

  • Wall Street needs to pay its fair share

    I read with interest the letter by Congressman McKinley bemoaning the jobless recovery saying that " what's happening on Wall Street is not translating to Main Street across America." So true. Since he asked "What can Congress do to help?" I'd like to make some commonsense suggestions to our representative that would help our local Main Street businesses, struggling ...

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