President Obama reiterated his call Monday for the nation's banks to increase lending, saying that he was getting too many letters from small businesses unable to borrow money.
"America's banks received extraordinary assistance" from the government, Obama said at a press conference following a meeting with the heads of the largest banks. "Now that they're back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy."
An unlikely chain reaction turns into a 13-way transplant during six marathon days of surgery.
If you haven't mailed your Christmas packages, take note of these important dates.
Giving the wrong holiday present to a co-worker or your boss could get you in some trouble.
Simple things, like a good desk chair and short walks, can make life more pleasant.
Technicians locate the lost messages, but their contents won't be released for some time.
Adrian Zavala was walking with Jesse Barrera when a nearby driver was blinded by the sun.
Hundreds of smaller slabs are breaking off a huge mass of ice as it makes its way toward Australia.
Make dinnertime a stress-free event with these easy menus for every day of the week.
Choosing the wrong starter can equal 1,000 calories before the entrée arrives.
Flattery, repetition, and forgetfulness are three ways pushy people attempt to get their way.
Waitresses at a diner are stunned by what happened after a random act of generosity.
You may be ill-advised to wait for the after-Christmas sales on these popular items.
Americans are reluctant to give up plush toilet paper, but some say "soft enough" should be good enough.
Remarkable footage of veined octopuses collecting coconut halves for use when under threat could be the first example of tool use in invertebrates.Warning: This video contains footage of an octopus hiding under a coconut shell that it has carried around just in case it needed to hide from something. Watching this footage may contradict your previous assumptions about animal tool use, and may be too adorable for some viewers.
National Geographic: Octopuses Carry Coconut Shells as Instant Shelters
Copycat red blood cells can squeeze through the smallest spaces to deliver drugs and imaging agents anywhere in the body.Monsanto's methods are spelled out in a series of confidential commercial licensing agreements obtained by the AP. The contracts, as long as 30 pages, include basic terms for the selling of engineered crops resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, along with shorter supplementary agreements that address new Monsanto traits or other contract amendments...
For example, one contract provision bans independent companies from breeding plants that contain both Monsanto's genes and the genes of any of its competitors, unless Monsanto gives prior written permission -- giving Monsanto the ability to effectively lock out competitors from inserting their patented traits into the vast share of U.S. crops that already contain Monsanto's genes...
"We now believe that Monsanto has control over as much as 90 percent of (seed genetics). This level of control is almost unbelievable," said Neil Harl, agricultural economist at Iowa State University who has studied the seed industry for decades. "The upshot of that is that it's tightening Monsanto's control, and makes it possible for them to increase their prices long term. And we've seen this happening the last five years, and the end is not in sight."
Some forms of blindness occur because photoreceptors in the retina degrade. The first flexible implant could help.
Being pregnant seems to make women better at reading threatening facial expressions – perhaps because it makes mothers-to-be hyper-vigilant.
The towns making a strong comeback from the foreclosure crisis have some factors in common.
Even near military bases, female vets from Iraq and Afghanistan get a chilly reception.
Dubai's government said today it had received 6bn in emergency funds from oil-rich neighbour Abu Dhabi to pay debts owed by its struggling conglomerate.
A last-minute infusion of cash keeps the glitzy city-state from plunging deeper into crisis.
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