Rivals or partners, confrontation or collaboration, Europe's complicated relationship with China is under the spotlight as never before this week,… Will Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype be a wake up call for lawmakers on the need for corporate tax reform? Skype can thank a large part of its big payday on the country's corporate tax code and being organized outside of the U.S. Here is the issue: U.S. companies with world-wide operations like Microsoft do not immediately pay U.S. corporate tax on the earnings of their foreign subsidiaries. They pay that tax only when the funds are repatriated into the U.S. Since the corporate tax rate here is 35%, they have to pay a toll of as much as a third to get the money back in the U.S. To avoid this toll, they leave the profits overseas in what is sometimes referred to as "foreign trapped cash." And trapped cash is exactly what Microsoft is using to buy Skype. Maybe Dane Sardinha should have replaced Carlos Ruiz in that video game commercial with Roy Halladay. OK, let's not go too far. But Sardinha has pulled off this remarkable feat: All three times he has caught Halladay in the last two seasons, the ace has thrown a complete game. In much the same way that every person has one of seven possible blood types, each of us may contain one of several possible bacterial communities, suggests new research. Why these communities exist, and what they may do, is unknown. "There are hundreds of questions that need to be explored," said Mani Arumugam, a [...] Gabriel Ayala and Will Clipman Passion, Fire & Grace (Canyon Records CR-7098, 2010) Native American guitarist Gabriel Ayala (of the Yaqui people) has got an ear for different styles, the... We put too much faith in modern gizmos, says Robert Vamosi in When Gadgets Betray Us - but techno-symbiosis is older and more complicated than he admits In a symbiotic union more complete than any previously found in vertebrates, the common spotted salamander lives with algae inside its cells. Such a degree of cross-species fusion was long thought to exist only among invertebrates, whose immune systems are not primed to destroy invaders. But algae live inside the salamanders from before birth, possibly passed [...] (John) I wrote here about the sinister symbiosis between contemptible left-wing web sites and the supposedly respectable liberal press. The specific subject of the post, titled Anatomy of a Smear, was the left's attacks on Congressman Mike Pompeo, a former soldier who ranked first in his class at West Point and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and who, after a successful career as an entrepreneur, now represents Kansas's 4th Congressional District. The 4th District includes Wichita, the home of Koch Industries, and more than 2,000 Koch employees are constituents of Congressman Pompeo. The whole post bears re-reading; this was the concluding paragraph: > The disgusting morass of left-wing blogs, funded by far-left billionaires like George Soros, spew up an endless stream of slimy attacks on mainstream citizens, like Charles and David Koch, and mainstream politicians, like Mike Pompeo. Democratic Party outlets that are generally presumed to be more respectable, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, watch the dirt flow by and periodically, when they see something promising, pluck it out of the swamp and take it mainstream in order to benefit their party. The Post isn't as bad as some--I have ... Many plants form symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi. A much smaller group of plants, mostly the legumes, form symbiotic relationships with rhizobial bacteria. Op den Camp et al. (p. 909, … [Read more] Researchers have found two key proteins responsible for oxygen radicals, which have an important role in plant growth and symbiosis. The Simbiontes ("Symbionts" in English) Project brought together children, their families, artists and scientists in a first of its kind fundraising project in Portugal. A true symbiosis was established between several groups in society, leading to this award for scientific research. Miguel Godinho Ferreira, group leader at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, just outside Lisbon, is the first scientist to win the 10,000 euros Simbiontes Award, for his proposal to investigate the cellular changes that cause cancer in adults... A harmonious symbiosis between Big Pharma and academia will hopefully lead to the speedier development of better medications for the treatment of a spectrum of psychiatric disorders. In one bold stroke, the secrets-divulging group WikiLeaks underscored just how easy technology has made it to both steal confidential information and disseminate it globally. Its release of more than 250,000 U.S. embassy cables online November 28 represents the largest set of confidential documents ever leaked to the public. These headline-grabbing secrets hint that modern information technology is shifting news leaks away from traditional media such as newspapers. But rather than kill off mainstream media, such a shift could lead to a novel symbiosis, transforming how the public gets information. [More] Yesterday afternoon in Copenhagen, fRoots magazine's founding editor Ian Anderson was honored to receive the 2010 Womex Award For Professional Excellence, presented to him by veteran UK journalist and broadcaster Robin Denselow. fRoots becomes one of only two UK recipients of the award since Nick Gold of World Circuit Records received the first in 1999. [...]
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