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CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez, long critical of big transnational companies, is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). Venezuela’s science and technology ministry recently held the Latin American Free Software Installation Fair, an event promoting the use of the open-source Linux operating system …

WASHINGTON – Sen. Paul Sarbanes for the first time Thursday publicly defended the landmark corporate financial legislation he co-authored against criticism that its regulations hurt U.S. markets. Sarbanes, Maryland’s senior Democratic senator who plans to retire at the end of his current term, accepted a lifetime achievement award from the …

NEW YORK – A beautifully preserved fossil from southern Germany raises questions about how feathers evolved from dinosaurs to birds, two paleontologists argue in a study published Thursday. The 150 million-year-old fossil is a juvenile carnivorous dinosaur about 2½ feet long that scientists named Juravenator, for the Jura mountains where …