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Burger King is being sold to private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26bn (£2.1bn), it has been announced.
The fast food chain, with 12,100 outlets worldwide, had been the subject of takeover rumours for days.
Burger King floated on Wall Street in 2006, four years after being bought by a group of private equity firms.
The group - TPG Capital, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Funds - still own 31% of Burger King shares.
The deal, worth $24 a share, comes after Burger King's sto( 阅读全文)
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Imagine an exchange of fire between Chinese and Vietnamese navies in the South China Sea.
Or just an accidental bump between Chinese and American warships, as high-stakes manoeuvring gets out of hand.
Or the arrest by China's navy of hundreds, not just dozens, of Vietnamese fishermen in disputed waters, sparking US voices to support Hanoi against Beijing - or the other way around.
Fanciful scenarios? Certainly.
But the impact of a conflict over a storm-tossed and otherwise unremarkable st( 阅读全文)
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A growing number of New York sky-scrapers are switching off their lights to help reduce the number of birds hitting the high-rise buildings.
The "lights out" project - organised by NYC Audubon - runs until 1 November, when migratory birds are expected to have completed their autumn migrations.
The Empire State and Chrysler buildings are among those dimming their lights.
An estimated 90,000 birds each year are killed in the city as a result of striking glass-fronted buildings.
Organisers of( 阅读全文)
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AS I write this, an uncomfortable warmth is starting
to overcome me. But this is no mystery fever to send me running to the
medicine cupboard. The source is all too obvious: the laptop cradled in
my lap. Time to fetch not a cold compress, but a pillow to place beneath
my computer.
Today's microelectronic devices pump
out a lot of heat. If only they wouldn't, processors would be zippier,
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The discovery of nearly identical sea creatures on either side of a now solid Antarctic ice sheet -- 1,500 miles wide and over a mile thick -- points to an open ocean passage there as recently as 125,000 years ago.
A schematic of a seaway created by the partial collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The new evidence adds to geologic clues indicating the West Antarctic
Ice Sheet has collapsed at least once in the last million years, and
could do so again in a warmer climate. The complete( 阅读全文)
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Explosive bursts normally seen only on the surface of the sun can now
be captured in a 13-foot-long tube using lab-created plasmas and bursts
of laser light.
Physicists have created a scaled-down model of solar eruptions called
coronal mass ejections, which can wreak havoc on satellites and create
beautiful northern-light displays on Earth. The new experiments suggest
these eruptions are set off when gushes of charged particles flow into
twisted loops of magnetic field that extend f( 阅读全文)
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Tomorrow’s WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping
military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc. The futurists at Darpa are working
on a project that would make it harder for troops to funnel classified
material to WikiLeaks -- or to foreign governments. And that means if
you work for the military, get ready to have your web, email and other
network usage monitored even more than it is now.
Darpa’s new project is called CINDER, for Cyber Insider Threat. It’s
lead by a legendary( 阅读全文)
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What’s the most exciting part of setting a land speed record in
an electric vehicle? Roger Schroer, who drove the student-built Buckeye
Bullet to a record-breaking 307.7 mph, says the true thrill comes from
witnessing the teamwork involved in building the car.
No, that’s not the feel-good copy of a cheesy press release. He says setting a land speed record in the Buckeye Bullet
feels more like a successful experiment than a thrill ride. We caught
up with Schroer as he returned home from the( 阅读全文)
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An independent review
of work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (better known
as the IPCC) has recommended significant changes to the way that the
organisation operates, in the wake of criticism earlier in the year
over errors in its 2007 report.
Despite near-unanimity among environmental scientists as to the anthropogenic
causes of the Earth's observed climate change, there remains a small
but vocal group of skeptical bloggers dedicated to finding any mistake
in the IPCC'( 阅读全文)
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Google has got together
with indie band Arcade Fire to create a interactive musical web toy
called "The Wilderness Downtown", built in HTML5, which features the
band's music. It's one of several "Chrome Experiments" that Google offers to show off the power of its increasingly-influential browser.
Director Chris Milk created the site, which can be found at thewildernessdowntown.com,
and should work in most modern browsers that aren't Internet Explorer.
The site prompts you for the address o( 阅读全文)
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