A century of distinction: 100 women who changed the world The Independent | Tomorrow is designated International Women's Day, and it is a particularly significant milestone this year: the campaign to improve the rights of women was founded a century ago. | To celebrate the occasion, The Independent on Sunday today salutes 100 women who have changed the world for ever and ...
Spending 'hit by wintry weather' BBC News | Wintry weather changed consumers' spending habits during January, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium. | The lines that did well included boots, warm bedding, spades and grit, while people also stocked up on tinned and frozen food. | But consumers pulled back on other, optional spending. |...
A century of distinction: 100 women who changed the world The Independent | Tomorrow is designated International Women's Day, and it is a particularly significant milestone this year: the campaign to improve the rights of women was founded a century ago. | To celebrate the occasion, The Independent on Sunday today salutes ...
Scientist admits leaked emails were 'pretty awful' The Independent | The academic at the centre of the "climategate" controversy over leaked university emails admitted yesterday that some of his correspondence had been "pretty awful". | Professor Phil Jones, the head of the of the Climatic Research Unit at the Unive...
Need to know: Goldman compensation ... Liberty store sale ... Vivendi loss narrows The Times | View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | UK currency: Sterling plummeted to a nine-month low against the dollar and could tumble further, analysts warned, as fears mounted that the general election could result in a hung Parlia...
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'Show Your Working': What 'ClimateGate' means BBC News | Extended peer review is an idea that can take many forms. | It may mean the involvement of a wider range of professionals than just scientists. | The Intergovernmental Panel on C...
Spending 'hit by wintry weather' BBC News | Wintry weather changed consumers' spending habits during January, according to the Scottish Retail Consortium. | The lines that did well included boots, warm bedding, spades and grit, while people also stocked up on tinned and frozen food. | But co...
Terence Blacker: 'Disorders' for the next generation The Independent | As the world gets progressively madder, it seems only right and proper that psychiatry is forever updating its list of hang-ups available to us all. This week, with the excitement of a fashion designer launching a new spring collection, American ps...
Women on the pill may live longer The News & Observer | LONDON -- Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says. | British researchers observed more than 46,000 women for nearly four decades from 1968. They compared the number of deaths in women on the pill to those who never took it. | In the study, women on the pill gene...
Stock futures inch higher ahead of opening Syracuse | (AP) - NEW YORK - Investors are continuing to search for direction Wednesday, after two days of relatively flat trading. Stock futures edged higher. | The Dow Jones industrial average is down less than 2 points for the week. | A market surge that began a year ago appears to have run out of steam recently. Traders are no longer looking for just an...
