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...believes limiting the credit means that more of the benefit will go to smaller businesses. Administration officials said the Obama plan would cost $33 billion. The hiring rebate was one of a number of tax cuts the President proposed in his State of the Union address earlier in the week. In that speech, Obama predicted the tax credit would be tapped by more than "1 million small businesses who hire new workers or raise wages." (See the best business deals...
...Neurologist Maurizio Corbetta of Washington University in St. Louis recruited 14 people to use their peripheral vision to identify a hidden pattern - an inverted T - that was flashed briefly on a screen inside an fMRI machine. After each daily training session, lasting one to two hours for about a week, participants were given an hour's rest, during which time Corbetta scanned their brains. (Read "The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector...
...City of Cambridge will upgrade its current energy use tracking tool to MassEnergyInsight—a new web-based tool launched this week to make Massachusetts greener free of charge, according to the state’s Department of Energy Resources...
...help local officials identify which departments and buildings are wasting energy. The program will also help communities reduce energy use by 20 percent in five years—fulfilling one requirement for receiving the Green Communities Grants Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last week to finance energy efficiency and renewable power projects...
...might be easy to forget that just over a week ago, Haiti experienced its largest earthquake in 200 years, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries and infections, and unthinkable devastation in the capital of Port-au-Prince. The media has already begun to turn its focus to other issues, but we must not forget about Haiti so soon—not again...