Smith & Wesson Holding, the parent company of the gun manufacturing giant, has bought Universal Safety Response, a Franklin firm that specializes in safety barriers, on Thursday. The company is paying $26.2 million in cash and 9.7 million of its shares ...Read More
President Obama's eight-day trip to Asia produced no tangible wins for the United States, though he is citing talks with Asian allies that he says could help create thousands of jobs and open markets for American goods in the future. Citing ...Read More
Israel Gelfand, the Russian mathematician whose research laid the mathematical framework for the imaging abilities of MRI and CT scanners and who did crucial work in a host of more esoteric fields, died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital ...Read More
Dr. Gelfand, from Ukraine, was a distinguished professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. He conducted pioneering research, mentored mathematicians, and established correspondence schools in Russia and the United States for budding mathematicians in remote areas. He remained active until 2008, ...Read More
NEW YORK - Israel M. Gelfand, one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics, whose work cleared paths for other thinkers in fields as diverse as physics and medical imaging, died Monday in New Brunswick, N.J. He was 96.
The death, at ...Read More
Hot on the heels of the super-successful Kindle 2 launch, Amazon announced the Kindle DX ($489 direct), a larger, higher capacity, and more expensive version. I was able to get some hands-on time with the device and found it to ...Read More
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden fed their hankering for hamburgers at Michael Landrum’s Ray’s Hell Burger during a quick working lunch Tuesday. The two officials swung into the Wilson Boulevard burger joint for a quick bite, waiting on ...Read More
BRUSSELS, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Two spectators were killed and 23 others were injured on Thursday when a car ploughed into the crowd watching the Queen's Day parade in a central Dutch city, Radio Netherlands reported Thursday. The car drove at ...Read More
Co-authored by Randall Soderquist, Senior Trade Program Associate with the Center for Global Development. Now that world leaders and finance ministers have met in London and declared their support for open markets and reform of global financial rules, what's next for ...Read More
Incredibly, where Wall Street is showered with billions upon billions, having brought the nation to its knees, destroyed the savings of millions, wrecked havoc on the nations homeowners, crushing our confidence in the capitalist impulse that had been a meritocracy ...Read More
