Costco can only hold prices so long

www.marketwatch.com | 7 hours 58 minutes ago

Costco Wholesale, one of the retailers that has been benefiting from consumers trading down for lower-cost goods, warns that its profit in the August-ending quarter will be well below analyst expectations.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/costcos-profit-warning-sparks-more/story.aspx?guid=%7BC72D1408%2DBE1D%2D44D5%2DB490%2D19FB35BAFE19%7D

Billy Bragg: Opposition to Lords reform is a primacy defence

www.guardian.co.uk | 13 hours 38 minutes ago

Billy Bragg: Martin Kettle's assertion that opposition to Lords reform is self-serving ignores MPs' desire to guard the primacy of the Commons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/23/lordreform.lords?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews

Ex-Siemens managers deny bribery involvement

www.reuters.com | 17 hours ago

MUNICH (Reuters) - Two former top managers at Germany's Siemens have denied involvement in systematic bribery while at the company, prosecutors in Munich said on Wednesday. Last week Albrecht Schaefer,

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSL2389464820080723?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews

Software for the times

www.theglobeandmail.com | 19 hours 8 minutes ago

SAS Institute Inc. is making money among the madness by helping customers bring order to chaos.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080723.wrSAS23/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080723.wrSAS23&rss=sas.corp.us.pr1&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=Corp_MediaCoverage

Xooglers

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Can you believe it's been over six months since the last post on Xooglers? My, how the time flies. I'm going to shamelessly usurp Doug's soap box to make a plug for free speech. Reddit today led me to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

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UCC

UCC recently hosted the first National Specialist Registrar Advanced Training Symposium in Cardiology addressing the fields of cardiac hemodynamics and adult congenital heart disease. More...

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Science Talk: Whose Phone Is It, Anyway: Did Bell Steal The Invention?

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In this episode, journalist and author Seth Shulman talks about his new book, The Telephone Gambit, in which he produces compelling evidence that Alexander Graham Bell plagiarized a key element of the telephone. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=5F1A8F35-C6A1-6742-6DCB11D92DAE6D09

Flight PDF Archive - INTERNATIONAL Week ending 6 August,

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BRAZIL JOINS THE ROCKET BUSINESS 383 David Velupillai reports from Natal on Brazil's planned entry into the business of satellite launching by the end of the decade.

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1983/1983/1983%20-%201367.html