FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- January 03, 2014 -- GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it will hold its 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareowners on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago, Illinois. GE holds its shareowners meeting in a different city each year to illustrate the diversity of the company's businesses and the strength of its portfolio.
For many people, sunlight is an essential source of vitamin D. The human body needs vitamin D to maintain bone health and helps regulate the immune system.
Many efforts to smooth out the variability of renewable energy sources --- such as wind and solar power --- have focused on batteries, which could fill gaps lasting hours or days. But MIT's Charles Forsberg has come up with a much more ambitious idea: He proposes marrying a nuclear power plant with another energy system, which he argues could add up to much more than the sum of its parts.
A public works facility security camera in North Liberty, Iowa, caught this meteor at around 5:43 p.m. local time on Dec. 26. Observers across Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska reported seeing the fireball as it streaked from east to west across the Midwestern sky.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. --- Jan. 2 2013 --- (NYSE:GE) --- Help GE search for Artie, the Dalmatian mascot of the GE Artistry™ Series, and you'll earn a chance to win Artistry appliances.
When cases of infectious disease appear, saving time can mean saving lives or preventing suffering. The sooner health officials realize an outbreak like influenza, measles, cholera or dengue fever is under way, the sooner they can mobilize to treat and contain it.
Apprenticeships might sound as if they come straight out of the Middle Ages, but there is nothing medieval about the wage premiums and career opportunities that young Americans can gain from them.
The Year That Was
Leaders in many nations around the world were furious to learn that intelligence agencies have been collecting large amounts of information about their citizens through electronic surveillance.
