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  • May 2008

    • Protester Eggs Microsoft CEO

      Associated Press  |  May 21, 08 9:51 AM CDT

      Protester Eggs Microsoft CEO

      (Newser) - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in Budapest this week to give a lecture to Hungarian university students, but the talk took an unexpected turn when he was pelted with eggs. Unlike Bill Gates, who was hit in the face with a cream pie a decade ago, Ballmer was able to dodge the attack. The protester shouted that Microsoft had stolen money from the Hungarian people, hurled three eggs, and was calmly escorted out. More »

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      Microsoft  • Steve Ballmer  • protesters  • eggs  • Hungary  • Budapest

  • March 2008

    • Easter Bunny's Budget Strained as Egg Prices Skyrocket

      Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 22, 08 6:19 PM CDT

      Easter Bunny's Budget Strained as Egg Prices Skyrocket

      (Newser) - As far as the egg industry is concerned, Easter might as well have been Christmas. Prices skyrocketed 29% over the last year, and show no sign of slowing, as eggs are such a staple that demand hasn’t slowed a bit. “We’ve never seen profits like this,” said one egg farmer. Consumers shelling out over $2 a dozen are less thrilled, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      food prices  • agriculture  • farmer  • Easter  • eggs  • chickens

  • February 2008
  • September 2007

    • Salmon Made to Bear Trout

      Nature  |  Sep 14, 07 6:36 PM CDT

      Salmon Made to Bear Trout

      (Newser) - Cue the world’s most peculiar baby announcement: Masu salmon have produced rainbow trout offspring, with an assist from scientists that could lead to the preservation of rare fish species. Trout sperm stem cells had already been injected into salmon embryos to produce salmon with trout sperm; now the same early sperm cells have been used to produce female salmon with trout eggs, Nature reports. More »

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      fish  • salmon  • breeding  • sperm  • eggs  • trout

    • Market Forces Conspire Against English Breakfast

      Times (UK)  |  Sep 14, 07 8:37 AM CDT

      Market Forces Conspire Against English Breakfast

      (Newser) - Soaring wheat prices are rippling across the British economy and hitting hard in a very important place: the kitchen. The cost of a traditional full English breakfast is on the rise, reports the Times of London, thanks in large part to the price of the grain, which is integral not just to toast but also to animal feed. More »

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      wheat  • milk  • eggs  • grain  • shortage  • Britian  • groceries  • breakfast

    • Spinach, Eggs Fight Blindness

      Reuters  |  Sep 11, 07 3:55 PM CDT

      Spinach, Eggs Fight Blindness

      (Newser) - Nutrients found in spinach and eggs help stave off age-related blindness, a new study shows. Macular degeneration, the most common cause of vision loss in the elderly, was 35% less likely to develop in people who consumed the most eggs, spinach, and other leafy greens, which are rich in lutein and zeaxanthin, Reuters reports. More »

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      blindness  • eggs  • spinach  • macular degeneration

  • July 2007

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