7:25 AM
http://www.livescience.com/animals/091012-vegetarian-spider.html
It is amazing that in 2005 Dell was valued at $100 billion, more than HP and Apple combined...and today it is worth $30 billion, less than a third of HP or Apple's market values:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_43/b4152036025436.htm
It has been difficult for US companies to gain acceptance in China, as their consumer market is much different than the US market. P&G found that offering a variety of flavors for its Crest toothpaste helps, so they offer Crest in lemon, tea, strawberry, salt and honey flavors:
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14660438
China's economy is booming, so Hong Kong's luxury real estate market has gone crazy. One Hong Kong apartment actually sold for $9,197 per square foot, a new world record!
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hot-money-floods-back-into-china-2009-10-18
Many people had thought that chronic fatigue syndrome was a psychiatric condition, but research found that many of them are infected with a little known virus that may cause or at least contribute to their illness:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/health/research/09virus.html?_r=1
Study of adults in the US found that men are 3x more likely to have noise-related hearing loss than women. I never realized that riders in a convertible are subjected to sound levels above the
government-safe limit of 85 decibels!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/07/hearing.loss.noise/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular
2007 figures found that 33.5% of married couples in the US have the women making more than their husbands. When both spouses work, 25.9%of wives earn more than their husbands, up from 17.8% two decades ago:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33196583/ns/business-consumer_news/
This unfortunately British man has been married for 18 years to a woman diagnosed with one of Britain's loudest snores...her snores are 111.6 decibels, louder than a jet plane, diesel truck, farm tractor, and a speeding express train!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220595/Meet-grandmother-snores-111-decibels--louder-JET-plane.html
Mexico City is putting 1,300 of its heaviest cops on a diet--over 70% of their 70,000 cops are overweight:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091016/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_cops_on_diets
Amazon and Wal-Mart are in the middle of a huge price war on best-selling hardcover books. They are selling hardcover books for $9 now!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aNudtIRVsXWM