• Philamlife assures policy holders (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

    MANILA, Philippines—The plan of US-based insurance giant American International Group to sell local unit Philippine American Life and General Insurance Co. (Philamlife) will not affect its ability to pay claims, Philamlife president and chief executive Jose Cuisia Jr. said Monday.
    2008-10-06 09:30:53
  • UT professor earns excellence in teaching award (Austin American-Statesman)

    UT 'teacher of teachers' earns excellence award
    2008-10-06 05:50:10
  • NASA physicist to present keynote address at WiSM event (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

    CHARLESTON — Sheila G. Bailey, a senior physicist at NASA, will present the keynote address at the “Careers for Women in Engineering, Science and Mathematics” event tonight at Eastern Illinois University.
    2008-10-06 09:24:27
  • Argos, Bombers in must-win situation (The Globe and Mail)

    Mathematics of mediocrity make Friday's match between the Argos and Blue Bombers the most meaningful of the regular season for the two teams
    2008-10-06 08:42:32
  • A figure in Indian art - New Straits Times

    A math professor-turned artist depicts India’s art with flair. He is also the man who inspired his Malaysian brother-in-law to set up Artspace in Bangsar, KL. SHARMILA BILLOT writes. AN entrepreneur with a passion for art. That’s Shivakumar Raju ...
    2008-10-06 05:02:00
  • Pittsburg State Names Presidential Search Committee - KWCH.com

    (TOPEKA) - Today the Board of Regents selected the 18 individuals who will guide the search process for the next president of Pittsburg State University (PSU). The search committee, comprised of 18 individuals representing PSU constituencies such as ...
    2008-10-06 03:08:00
  • Stan Salthe Re Runnegar & Natural Selection - Scoop

    Given this, while we can see many examples of selection in nature -- for example, selection of a drainage system by an accumulating body of water -- these are not Darwinian selection What is selected here are individuals, and reproduction is not ...
    2008-10-06 04:55:00
  • Racial prejudice - UCLA News

    The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday that a team led by Edson Smith, a computing resource manager with the UCLA Department of Mathematics, had discovered the largest known prime number, which has nearly 13 million digits. UCLA math ...
    2008-10-06 04:33:00
  • Zacks' Growth & Income Strategy Highlights: Getty Realty, Genesis ... - MSN MoneyCentral

    Genesis Energy LP ( GEL ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist The Zacks Growth and Income Profit Track strategy looks for stocks with unusually high dividend yields. Although this screen is based on a long-term and lower risk approach to ...
    2008-10-06 10:50:00
  • Zacks Earnings Preview: Alcoa, Costco, Chevron, General Electric and ... - MSN MoneyCentral

    Costco Wholesale Corp ( COST ) Stock Quote , Chart , News , Add to Watchlist Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week ’ s list includes General Electric GE , and Monsanto MON . To see more earnings ...
    2008-10-06 10:50:00
  • Professor Sir Brian Pippard: Physicist who proved the existence of the ... - The Independent

    Brian Pippard was a distinguished physicist and university teacher, a talented classical pianist, a historian of science and an able administrator. He enjoyed discussion and debate and he had an impressive knowledge and understanding of classical ...
    2008-10-06 05:02:00
  • Dominic Lawson: The schools that simply do not believe in failure - The Independent

    There is an unholy alliance against academies, with their high expectations, of the old left in teaching unions and some thinkers on the right I wish I could have spoken to Andrew Adonis before writing this article, but he seems unable to return my ...
    2008-10-06 03:50:00
  • Goldman Sachs' survival in Wall Street jungle - Los Angeles Times

    WHAT IS a disaster for America's Wall Street (actually 50th and Park) and London's City (actually Canary Wharf) and deep trouble for the economy of jobs, factories and stores has a (very small) silver lining for Charles D. Ellis and his publisher ...
    2008-10-06 03:43:00
  • Confidence can make all the difference - Times Online

    It’s not that we’ve run out of money. Rather, we’ve run out of confidence. That’s the one semi-comprehensible fact that emerges from the specialist writing about the current financial supernova. Everyone says the same thing: the problem is ...
    2008-10-06 04:41:00
  • A figure in Indian art (The New Straits Times)

    A math professor-turned artist depicts India’s art with flair. He is also the man who inspired his Malaysian brother-in-law to set up Artspace in Bangsar, KL. SHARMILA BILLOT writes.
    2008-10-06 04:54:10
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