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(Reuters) - Google Inc will begin blocking Facebook and other Web services from accessing its users' information, highlighting an intensifying rivalry between the two Internet giants.

Google will no longer let other services automatically import its users' email contact data for their own purposes, unless the information flows both ways. It...

Stanford's once elegant, $500,000 sculpted clock/fountain sits glumly in storage

By Lisa M. Krieger
Posted: 11/07/2010 04:18:17 AM PST
Updated: 11/07/2010 04:18:44 AM PST

Time stands still for Stanford University's much-acclaimed sculpture Timetable, a $500,000 clock and fountain by famed architect Maya Lin.
When unveiled at the school's...

For months, prices paid to farmers for corn, wheat and soybeans have been shooting up. But so far, grocery prices have held steady for consumers.

The reason is largely a matter of lag time. Crop prices have jumped so quickly since June that the changes haven't made...

Mother of convicted pimp faces felony charges for linking to an explicit Internet site featuring son's 15-year-old victim



A 40-year-old mother who police say placed a link on her MySpace page to an Internet site of sexually explicit material involving a girl whom her son was convicted of pimping now faces a felony allegation herself....

Exit Polls: Unprecedented White Flight from Democrats

Democrats performed worse with whites on Tuesday than in any other congressional election since the Second World War.
Democrats' white problems stretch back nearly a half-century. Political white flight changed course with the implosion of George W. Bush's presidency, the Republican Party...