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ChangeQuakes Of The Week

June 05, 2006

TOP CHANGEQUAKES OF THE WEEK
** Fed Chairman Sees Slowing Economy
** "Smart Bomb" Drugs the Future for Cancer Therapy
** China Sees Power Blowin' In The Wind
** Vonage Stock Sales Investigated

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TOP CHANGEQUAKES OF THE WEEK

Fed Chairman Sees Slowing Economy

(ECONOMIC CHANGEQUAKE) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today the Fed needs to be vigilant to make sure inflation stays under control even as the U.S. economy starts to shift to a slower pace of growth.

money.cnn.com

'Smart Bomb' Drugs the Future for Cancer Therapy

(DISCOVERY CHANGEQUAKE) -- Using combinations of "smart bomb" cancer drugs that target specific proteins and avoid the indiscriminate cell destruction of chemotherapy may be the wave of the future for cancer patients, experts say.

news.yahoo.com

Related Story: New Drugs Hold Promise in Kidney Cancer Fight
news.yahoo.com


China Sees Power Blowin' In The Wind

(TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGEQUAKE) -- With a steady wind blowing from the north, Yang Xuhua looks out at his wind turbines on the rolling plains of Zhangbei County and waxes optimistic over China's potential for clean energy.

news.yahoo.com

Vonage Stock Sales Investigated

(CORPORATE CHANGEQUAKE) -- Vonage, the Internet phone company whose shares have fallen 30% since their debut, was accused in a class-action lawsuit of violating securities laws and improperly selling shares to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGEQUAKES

Yahoo!'s Online Video Service Gets Upgrade

Yahoo! is reprogramming its online video service so it's more like YouTube.com, an Internet upstart that has amassed a large audience during the past year with a free Web service that encourages people to post and share homemade clips.

news.yahoo.com

Related Story: YouTube Responds to Yahoo's Move
news.yahoo.com

Toshiba Introduces 200GB, 2.5-inch Hard-Disk Drive

As digital video continues to expand in scope and volume, consumers continue to pile up large data files that -- like those dust-gathering VHS cassettes -- they aren't quite willing to delete. Absent a really viable backup medium for such data volumes, the demand for hard-disk drive (HDD) storage capacity keeps climbing for any category of device that is likely to end up housing video.

www.edn.com


CORPORATE CHANGEQUAKES

Microsoft, Adobe Squabble Over PDF

Microsoft has decided to delete from the next version of Office an option to save documents in PDF after Adobe Systems threatened to take legal action.

www.pcworld.com

Related Story: A Look At Microsoft's New Office
www.pcworld.com

Report: U.S. Airlines Flying Less for Recovery

The six largest U.S. airlines, hammered by five years of brutal losses, have streamlined their fleets and are flying far fewer planes, helping them stage a recovery as they focus on profitability, The Wall Street Journal report on Monday.

news.yahoo.com

REGULATORY CHANGEQUAKES

New Nuclear Reactors On Order, Uncertainty Surrounds Plans

The nuclear industry is poised to receive the first new orders for reactors in three decades, but what remains unclear is whether the smartest buyers will be those at the head of the line or a little farther back.

www.nytimes.com


ECONOMIC CHANGEQUAKES

U.S. Service Economy Shows Signs Of Slowing

The service sector of the U.S. economy expanded in May, but at a slower pace than in April, a private survey of supply managers said on Monday.

news.yahoo.com

Related Story: Will Jobs Report Halt The Fed?
www.businessweek.com

FDA APPROVAL CHANGEQUAKES

FDA Panel Backs Leukemia Drug

An experimental Bristol-Myers Squibb pill should be approved for treating some types of leukemia in patients who have few if any other options, a U.S. advisory panel said on Friday.

today.reuters.com

Report: FDA Urges Restaurants to Downsize Portions

Those heaping portions at restaurants -- and doggie bags for the leftovers -- may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way. The government is trying to enlist the nation's eateries in the fight against obesity.

www.washingtonpost.com

Healthcare Near Crisis Due to Doctor Shortage

A looming doctor shortage threatens to create a national healthcare crisis by further limiting access to physicians, jeopardizing quality and accelerating cost increases.

www.boston.com


DISCOVERY CHANGEQUAKES

Cocktails For Cancer?

A new generation of cancer treatments is emerging from the world's drug laboratories that may deliver on the oncology community's grand vision: keeping the disease in check for months or even years with a drug that targets tumor cells with minimal side effects.

www.businessweek.com


Using PCs To Fight AIDS, Cancer

Researcher David Baker believes the key to an AIDS vaccine or a cure for cancer may be that old PC sitting under a layer of dust in your closet or the one on your desk doing little else but running a screen saver. Those outdated or idle computers may be just what Baker needs to turn his ideas into scientific breakthroughs.

news.yahoo.com