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Toyota profit booms
Toyota's quarterly profit more than doubled to 313.9 billion yen ($3.2 billion) as cost cuts and better sales worked with a weakening yen to add momentum to the automaker's comeback. Toyota Motor Corp., which last year reclaimed the title of world's...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Foreign Exchange Market, Ford Motor Co., Kelley Blue Book LLC, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Radioactive tuna from Fukushima? Scientists eat it up
Marine biologist Dan Madigan stood on a dock in San Diego and considered some freshly caught Pacific bluefin tuna. The fish had managed to swim 5,000 miles from their spawning grounds near Japan to California's shores, only to end up the catch of local...
Tags: Beaches, Environmental Issues, Stanford University, Science and Technology, Research
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Kimberly McBroom's Blog
Tuesday, May 7 I truly hope you were able to catch "Susan's Story," either last night at 6 or today on WDBJ 7 Mornin'. Susan Bahorich bravely shared her personal struggle with ovarian cancer. I am so proud of her for being open and honest with what she is...Tags: I Don't Know How She Does It (movie), Broken Leg, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Fashion Trends, Food and Drug Administration
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At cautious Toyota, low risk rules even as profit booms
Reuters* Operating profit for FY 2012/13 seen at 1.26 tln yen * Toyota likely met mid-term profit and margin goal in FY 2012/13 * Toyota not building new plants for three years By Yoko Kubota TOKYO, May 8 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp refuses to be tempted...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Foreign Exchange Market, Vehicles, Subaru, Fuji Heavy Industries
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Early quake warning system for Southern California gets $5 million
Earthquake scientists have received about $5 million to develop an earthquake early warning system for Southern California -- enough to build the network but not enough to operate it. The money, announced Friday, has enabled scientists to already...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Antonio Villaraigosa, Natural Disasters, Earthquakes
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Internet connected loved ones after Boston bombings
With cellular service in Boston jammed in the aftermath of the marathon explosions this week, many people were left scrambling for ways to let loved ones know they were safe and to search for information on family and friends. Social networks and...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Haiti Earthquake (2010), Google Inc., Sports, Social Media
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At least 11 people stabbed at Houston-area Lone Star College
At least 11 people were stabbed at a Houston-area college Tuesday, which was on lockdown after the attacks, officials said. At least four victims at the Cy-Fair campus of the Lone Star College system in a northwestern Houston suburb were taken by...
Tags: Colleges and Universities
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Russia, Japan renew quest for elusive WWII peace treaty
World War II lingers for Russia and Japan. Nearly 68 years after the fighting ended, the two Asian powers have yet to sign a peace treaty. That could change now that the leaders of both countries have solid nationalist credentials and could pull off...
Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Moscow (Russia), Environmental Issues, Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry
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Educator takes teaching Japanese to a new level
julieg@herald-mail.comAyako Shiga knows how difficult it can be to learn a foreign language. When she was growing up in Tokyo, she failed her first semester of English in middle school. During a break that semester, she went to visit her father in Australia and couldn’...Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Apple iPad, Natural Disasters, High Schools, Trips and Vacations
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Japanese boat first confirmed tsunami debris in California
A 20-foot boat that washed ashore earlier this month in Northern California has been confirmed as the first debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami to reach the state. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, working with the Japanese...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Earthquakes, Google+, Japan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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ANALYSIS-Truth and consequences - a dilemma for Twitter and its users
ReutersBy Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Does Twitter have a credibility problem? For many, a single fake tweet from the Associated Press account that briefly roiled financial markets on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, 60 Minutes (tv program), Radio, White House, NPR
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Texting contributed to fatal crash of medical helicopter, NTSB says
The pilot of a medical helicopter that crashed in Missouri in 2011 had been texting, and that was a contributing factor to the disaster that killed four people, federal investigators said. The case is the first fatal commercial aircraft accident...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Heavy Engineering, Medical Procedures and Tests, Transportation Industry, Manufacturing and Engineering
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