Holiday shoppers eager to spend $1 trillion this season
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West Lafayette, Indiana - Holiday retail sales are on track to hit $1 trillion for the first time, according to Richard Feinberg, a Purdue University professor of retail management. The record spending would top last year's $960 billion.
Imperial Headwear and Ship Sticks Enter Partnership
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Bourbon, Missouri - Imperial Headwear, the leading manufacturer of premium golf headwear, and Ship Sticks, which offers a hassle-free golf club shipping solution for the traveling golfer, announced a strategic partnership today.
Fractals aid efforts to understand heat transport at nanoscale
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West Lafayette, Indiana - Researchers for the first time have applied a modern theory of heat transport in experiments with semiconductors used in computers and lasers, with implications for the design of devices that convert waste heat into electricity and the control of overheating in miniaturized and high–speed electronic components.
Secretary of State John Kerry Travel to Valparaíso, Chile and Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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Washington, DC - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Valparaíso, Chile, on October 5 to attend the second Our Ocean conference, hosted by the government of Chile. He and Chilean Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz will also participate in a town hall meeting with students entitled, “Taking Action for Our Ocean.”
Syrian Refugees, how many more can we afford?
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Washington, DC - Ten people want to move into your house. The reasons may be good such as there has been violence in their neighborhood or life in general has been bad where they currently live. These same people would also need for you to provide them with cash, food, education assistance, childcare and most likely half of the ten would need this assistance for the rest of their lives. You couldn't financially afford to do it. The United States is not doing it so well either.
U.S. Ratification of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism
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New York - Today, the United States deposited its instrument of ratification for the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (Nuclear Terrorism Convention) at the United Nations in New York. The United States will be the 100th State Party to the Treaty and has now fulfilled a pledge made by President Obama at the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit.
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