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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.----CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. today announced that in preparation for the holiday selling season, and to better assist CBL's retail partners, a series of unique marketing initiatives are currently underway to inform and invite consumers to frequent CBL malls for their holiday shopping needs.

Will Richmond allow a sovereign nation to build an enclave in their city, a state-within-a-city that possesses diplomatic immunity from California’s civil courts?

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto may need to expand its planned asset sales as it looks to pay down some of its near-$40 billion debt after BHP Billiton scrapped a $66 billion takeover offer. Rio had pledged to sell $15 billion in assets to reduce the huge debt it took on to buy Canadian aluminium producer Alcan last year, with the first $10 billion of disposals due this year. (For related story, ...

The National Sleep Foundation, Students Against Destructive Decisions and insurance giant Liberty Mutual have an early holiday greeting they'd like to pass along: Get more sleep before heading over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house.

(Reuters) - Rio Tinto may need to expand its planned asset sales as it looks to pay down some of its near-$40 billion (26 billion pounds) debt after BHP Billiton scrapped a $66 billion takeover offer.

Plastics are everywhere in our modern world, largely due to properties that render the materials tough and durable, but lightweight and easily workable. One of their most useful qualities, however - the ability to bend rather than break when put under stress - is also one of the most puzzling.

Source: IRIN Thousands of people are fleeing parts of the north-east region of Mandera and neighbouring Somali border areas after Kenya beefed up its security presence to counter possible threats from Somali armed groups.

Clemson University School of Computing professor Jason Hallstrom has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research embedded network systems.

Beaulieu Commercials Nexterra Carpet Tile has captured the prestigious Environmental Choice Certification of New Zealand. Garnered as the official environmental labeling program in New Zealand, the program operates independently from the government but the label is government owned and endorsed.

Scientists have successfully completed record-setting, petascale-level simulations of the earth's inner structure, paving the way for seismologists to model seismic wave propagations at frequencies of just over one second -- the same frequencies that occur in nature.