Because of the enormous man-power and capital expenditure required in creating a new animated television series, the number of new animated shows on television is diminishing rapidly.

Three friends, Edward, Mark and John, invested money in a company. When they divided the first quarter's profit, Edward received 10% more money than Mark and 120% more than John. If Mark received $2000 profit, how many dollars did John get?

The figure below shows a square inscribed in a circle with a radius of . What is the area of the shaded region?

Like Picasso, Braque created several proto-cubist paintings, sparking a radical and influential art movement in France.

If the recruitment agency does what it is to be doing, then everyone benefits—the client gets a suitable candidate for the vacant position, the candidate is placed in a satisfying position, and the agency receives a fee commensurate to its work.

North American cicadas always garner attention when they come above ground at the end of their 17-year life cycle, but in no case were they as well studied as was their emergence during the 1920s, when the naturalist William T. Davis studied them in detail.

Similarities across 200 genes related to hearing and deafness that were discovered in new research have yielded proof of echolocation capabilities in cetaceans, including dolphins, that were evolving independently of but convergent with the sonar hearing capabilities for which bats are well-known.

Calling for a ceasefire in South Sudan, where unrest has killed more than a thousand people, China has offered to step forth as the African state's biggest oil investor and act as a peace broker, so that it directly engages both warring sides in order to facilitate negotiations.

One of the most significant aspects of the act is that it empowers the province to try and set restrictions for the amount that will be paid by the government for a particular drug under this legislation.

The first shinkansen, or bullet train, which was built in time for the first Tokyo Olympics, reduced from 6 hours and 40 minutes to just 4 hours the required time of traveling from Tokyo to Osaka.

Taking further steps to combat the falling global price of rubber, the Thai Deputy Farm Minister's measures were announced today for curbing global supply by cutting nearly 150,000 tons in trees over the next 14 months.

Since the 1970s, scientists have believed that an asteroid once landed in the Gulf of Mexico and released ash causing a darkening of the sky by 10 to 20 percent over the ensuing decade, which inhibited photosynthesis and leading to the extinction of countless species on Earth.

Planets within the habitable zone, the shell-shaped region of space surrounding a star within which a planet could maintain liquid water on its surface, are much more likely than more distant planets to harbor atmospheres which contain water and, possibly, multicellular life.

The bone structure of bird-hipped dinosaurs, having pubic bones which point downward and toward the tail, help explain why paleontologists believe that they evolved independently of other dinosaurs.

Producers of jazz albums tend to back artists that they expect will gain popularity in the key European market, or who are popular already.

To Dr. Charles Lauritsen and Commander Sherman Burroughs, the Mojave could house a naval facility long before the desert was commonly thought of for such uses, and in 1943 the Navy established the area of China Lake as a naval ordinance test station.

While a wealth of data support the belief that there is a recession already under way, some analysts say that conclusive evidence will not be available until next quarter.

Golf clubs with graphite shafts are favored by many less-experienced players to maximize their shot's distance, designed to be both lightweight and to take less force to swing.