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- A new geological study indicates that the Himalayas -- including Mount Everest -- used to be islands in a now-vanished sea and were scraped off the seafloor, lifted by a collision of continental shelves.
- Why is a well-designed Web site so hard to find? For starters, you wouldn't notice a site if it were well-crafted.
- Even the property market in Dubai is feeling the economic squeeze and lenders injected $13.6 billion into the central bank to ease concerns of a housing slowdown.
- Voodoo practitioners in Haiti have long revered an indigenous plant believed to drive away evil. Now, that plant may prove to be a source of biofuel.
- This may be the worst holiday season in several years and retailers are bracing for the worst -- already setting up holiday displays to attract consumers and significantly discounting goods to draw revenue.
- SpaceX finally took flight over the weekend -- an event significant for privately funded space ventures.
