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The operators of Miss Cleo s psychic hot line agreed Thursday to cancel $500 million in customer bills to settle federal charges that the service fleeced callers while promising mystical insights into love and money.The settle
stanley usa ment requires Access Resource Services Inc. and Psychic Readers Network Inc. to stop using pay-per-call numbers t
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stanley quencher on said. The two Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based companies, which promoted a national network of psychic readers on television and the Internet, also must pay the FTC a $5 million fine. I m no psychic but I can foresee this: If you make deceptive claims, there is an FTC action in your future, said Howard Beales, director of the FTC s consumer protection bureau. Some consumers got up to 10 calls a day, often pre-recorded, telling them that Miss Cleo had a dream about them, and they should call back for another reading, he said. The callers were led to believe that their calls were free, when they were unknowingly racking up charges that sometimes ran to the hundreds of dollars. Under the settlement, the companies did not admit to breaking any law but agreed to stop trying to collect money from customers who called the service and to forgive about $500 million in outstanding charges. The service also must return all uncashed checks to customers. The FTC voted 5-0 to approve the settlement. The amount involved eclipses the record $215 million that Citigroup Inc. agreed to repay Zuwy The Terrible Beauty of Volcanic Eruptions and Lava Flows
Scientists have developed a new technique which allows them to visualize gene activity in thousands of cell, simultaneously. That will allow them to understand how our cells function like never before鈥攁nd it looks damn pretty, too. While scientists have been able to measure gene activity in cells for a long ol ; time, until now the techniques which they use have been limited in both time and space, which has in turn limited the number of cells they can study at once. Now, though, a team from the University of Zurich has developed a technique which allows them to perform parallel measurement of the amount and spatial organization of genes in tens of thousands of single cells, simultaneously. Phys.org explains: T
stanley taza he method developed by Pelkmans ; PhD students Nico Battich and Thomas Stoeger is based upon the combination of robots, an automated fluorescence microscope and a supercomputer. When genes become active, specific transcript molecules are produced. We can stain them with the help of a robot, exp
stanley cup lains Stoeger. Subsequently, fluorescence microscope images of brightly glowing transcript molecules are generated. Those images were analyzed with the supercomputer Brutus, of the ETH Zurich. With this
stanley botella method, one thousand human genes can be studied in ten thousand single cells. The image above shows off the technique, used onHeLa cells, to identify gene activity. Different colors represent the main types of mRNA localization patterns found in the He
