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The local commerce industry as represented by daily deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial is still barely learning to walk, even though Groupon has 10,000 employees and LivingSocial has 5,000. While the two companies look nearly identical today, don’t be surprised if they diverge. LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy reminded me in a conversation last week [...]

In this Aug. 19, 2011 photo, Josh Powell plays with his son Braden in a park near his home, in Puyallup, Wash. Powell had long been a person of interest in his wife?s disappearance from their home in West Valley City, Utah, two years ago. When Powell’s two sons arrived Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, for [...]

BERLIN (Reuters) ? Social upheaval and political awakening will form the focal themes of the 62nd Berlin film festival, director Dieter Kosslick said, as films depicting the Arab Spring and Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear facility take centre stage. The festival will screen documentaries and fictional works from Arab film makers which trace the turbulent progress [...]

Forum rules This forum is for OOC discussion about existing roleplays. Please post all “Players Wanted” threads in the Roleplayers Wanted forum! This topic is an Out Of Character part of the roleplay, ?Splice 2?. Anything posted here will also show up there. Topic Tags: Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around [...]

S. Amanda Caudill, a doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island, writes from Costa Rica, where she is assessing mammal diversity on coffee farms. Monday, Feb. 13 We have been counting and identifying the tree species in the coffee farm. Working with Leo Torres Campos, a farmer, makes the tree IDs a breeze because [...]