HATFIELD, England, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- New data supporting the role of Eisai's Halaven(TM) (eribulin) as a potential new standard of care for women with heavily pretreated metastatic breast…

EAST MEADOW, New York, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- LUKOIL Americas Corporation (LUKOIL Americas) announced today the sale of its subsidiary, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., to Cambridge Petroleum…

A group of German archaeologists have set off to find a priceless ancient treasure and I'd rather they not get it.    Sounds like the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" right? As smashing as…

On the face of it, Al Gore conducting a global warming conference during a blizzard a few years ago looked bad.   But maybe it was a teaching moment. The weather has always had swings and…

Arctic Ice March 2011 In April 2010 a late upward blip in Arctic sea ice extent led some bloggers to write about 'recovery'.  The blip was anomalous, hence there is no reason to expect a…

MCKINNEY, Texas, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Torchmark Corporation announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $.16 per share on all of the outstanding common stock…

LONDON, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest betting brand*, Bodog ( http://www.bodog.com), was born and raised in Canada and today announced that its online casino is roughly 48 hours…

Archimedes steps in again.  The MacTutor tells us that “Archimedes considered his most significant accomplishments were those concerning a cylinder circumscribing a sphere, and he asked for…

Eek, sorry, I kinda disappeared for a few days. There was really good powder, what can I say? I can at least draw a tenuous connection between driving up to the mountains and today's blog topic! If…

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ve likely used one or another of the URL shorteners out there. Even if you’re not, you may have run across a shortened URL. The first shortener I encountered, several…