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Rollins: 'Hurt Locker' Oscar timely 10 March 2010, 9:27 am
This past weekend, Iraq had a real election and in spite of threats and bombings, millions of voters participated in record numbers. It is a giant step forward in Iraq's road to democracy and has the potential to be a beacon for others in this battle-scarred region.
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Pa. woman faces terror charges 10 March 2010, 9:14 am
A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department said.
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Actor Corey Haim dies 10 March 2010, 8:43 am
Actor Corey Haim, who appeared in a number of movies during the 1980s, died early Wednesday of a possible drug overdose after being taken to a hospital, Los Angeles police said.
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Analyst: Trouble at Chrysler 10 March 2010, 8:24 am
The car company that is off to the worst start of 2010 isn't Toyota. It's Chrysler Group.
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Church: Excluding lesbians' kids correct 10 March 2010, 8:02 am
The archdiocese of Denver, Colorado, is defending its decision not to re-enroll two children in a Catholic school in Boulder next year because their parents are lesbians.
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U.S. hikers held in Iran call home 10 March 2010, 7:55 am
Three U.S. hikers who were detained in Iran have spoken by phone with their relatives for the first time since authorities jailed them more than seven months ago, the hikers' families said Wednesday.
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Parents want Israel to answer for daughter's bulldozer death 10 March 2010, 7:10 am
American Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in 2003 as it razed homes in a Palestinian camp. On Wednesday, her parents seek answers in an Israeli court.
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Lawmaker foe of gay rights: I'm gay 10 March 2010, 3:04 am
Why would a gay politician vote against gay rights?
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Sheen plans return to '2 and a Half Men' 10 March 2010, 2:38 am
Charlie Sheen is set to return to the set of his sitcom "Two and a Half Men," his publicist said.
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Airlines seek exemption to delay rule 9 March 2010, 6:50 pm
A runway closure at John F. Kennedy International Airport has prompted JetBlue Airways and Delta Air Lines to ask for a temporary exemption at JFK to a rule designed to keep planeloads of passengers from getting stranded on the tarmac.
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German Catholics to investigate abuse charges 10 March 2010, 9:52 am
Catholic authorities in Germany announced two major abuse investigations Wednesday.
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Actor Corey Haim dies at age 38 10 March 2010, 9:34 am
Haim had flulike symptoms before he died and was getting over-the-counter and prescription medications, Police Sgt. William Mann said.
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Sponsored By: 10 March 2010, 9:34 am
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Toyota luring buyers back with incentives 10 March 2010, 9:34 am
A high-ranking Toyota executive says the auto company's North American sales spiked around 50 percent the first eight days of March as incentives helped lure customers.
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New runaway Prius incident in New York State 10 March 2010, 9:19 am
Another Toyota Prius is being blamed for out-of-control acceleration following an incident in Harrison, N.Y., as the besieged automaker dealt with a new high-profile new headache.
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Biden says Palestinians deserve ‘viable’ state 10 March 2010, 9:06 am
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Palestinians deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory.
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Swedish papers publish Prophet Muhammad drawing 10 March 2010, 7:40 am
At least three Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in Ireland.
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Massa admits tickling, denies sexual intent 10 March 2010, 7:38 am
A day after former Rep. Eric Massa acknowledged tickling a colleague but denied the intent was sexual, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer accused "some people" of seeking to politicize the situation.
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Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism 10 March 2010, 6:07 am
The Dalai Lama blasted Chinese authorities Wednesday, accusing them of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet as he commemorated a failed uprising against China's rule over the region.
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NYT: Michelangelo bumped from art chart by ... 10 March 2010, 6:01 am
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.
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Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t review 10 March 2010, 9:52 am
Who says you have to pick between a netbook and the coming onslaught of standalone tablet devices? Okay maybe some (eh hem Apple), but Lenovo's trying to have it both ways with the IdeaPad U1 and the S10-3t. In clamshell mode the S10-3t looks like any old 10-inch netbook, but swivel around its capacitive mulitouch display and it turns into that slate device you've been dreaming of. That's not all: the S10-3t is one of the first netbooks (or netveritbles) that has the new Intel 1.83GHz Atom N470...
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KDDI concocts snooping mobile phones, line managers rub hands with glee 10 March 2010, 9:27 am
Sci-fi movies often present us with omniscient villains who are able to track the most minute actions of their underlings and foes. Rarely do we get a glimpse into their surveillance systems, but you have to imagine that some of the more rudimentary "employee evaluation" hardware will not be too far off from KDDI's latest. The Japanese cellphone giant has unveiled a new system, built around accelerometers, that can detect the difference between a cleaner scrubbing or sweeping a floor and merely...
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How the Terminator's .45 Longslide with laser sighting came to be (video) 10 March 2010, 9:03 am
While Arnie's one-handed reloads on his Winchester 1887 may make that shotgun the most iconic weapon of Terminator 2, his laser-sighted .45 Longslide was definitely king in the first. Laser sights are something you can buy in any gun shop today, but back in 1984 they were extremely rare -- and expensive. The one for the movie was custom made by SureFire, a company that specializes in tactical flashlights. Lasers at the time were helium neon, requiring a whopping 10,000 volts to power on and a c...
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US mineral companies to tech industry: drill, baby, drill 10 March 2010, 8:44 am
Even if your favorite gadget isn't flaunting them, rare earth metals are vital to all sorts of high-tech gizmos, from your flat-panel TV and computer hard drive to the hefty batteries that power the Toyota Prius. But over 95% of the world's rare earth comes from China; and late last year, China told the world that they'd like to keep the lion's share all to themselves. What will we Westerners do? Well, we could let China continue producing mountains of e-waste on our behalf. But we could also fi...
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Combustible carbon nanotubes give off electricity, make really tiny fires (video) 10 March 2010, 8:22 am
Need a more efficient heat sink? Try a carbon nanotube. Artificial muscle? Nanotubes. Space Ladder? Self-cleaning windows? Incredibly small bowl of soup? You get the picture. What can't carbon nanotubes do? We're not sure just yet, but even power generation is not beyond their grasp. Apparently when you coat the wee straws in butane and light one end on fire it creates a thermal wave, propelling electrons along to create a current. It's not a lot of current on a single smoldering tube, but scal...
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Robosoft Kompai takes care of your elderly so you don't have to (video) 10 March 2010, 8:01 am
This one has been quite a long time in coming, but Robosoft's service drone has finally made it off the drawing board, collected a catchy name, and headed off to the big world to seek its fortune as an R&D platform. Kompai is a personal assistance bot built around speech -- it understands basic instructions and requests and offers appropriate responses with its own monotonic style. It'll serve as a note and shopping list recorder, a calendar, a music player, or a video conferencing tool for...
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Korea starts testing 'recharging road,' might make it part of its public transport system 10 March 2010, 7:42 am
Time to set aside the chains of worry that have prevented us from jumping on the electric bandwagon -- Korean researchers have figured out a way to make us forget all about charging stations and cruising ranges with their magnetically recharging road. The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV) you see here went into service yesterday and can now be found towing three bus-loads of tourists around a Seoul amusement park. It operates on a battery five times smaller than conventional EV juice packs and can ...
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Motion-Sim 4DOF racing simulator will take your retirement fund for the ride of its life (video) 10 March 2010, 7:18 am
Race simulators like rFactor or iRacing offer the kind of gaming experience only available this side of a six-point harness, particularly when combined with a wheel like Logitech's G27, but sometimes it's a little difficult to get into the game when perched on an office chair. The 4DOF racing simulator from Motion-Sim will provides the missing link with a somewhat dangerous looking combination of pistons and articulating arms. It's been around for a few months but we're just now getting a chance...
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HP MediaSmart add-in adds TiVo compatibility, enables video transfers to and fro 10 March 2010, 6:59 am
For those enjoying media bliss thanks to a little MediaSmart box humming away somewhere in the corner, life just got a even more lovely. HP has announced a partnership with TiVo that allows MediaSmart users to install a Windows Home Server add-in, enabling the two devices to talk sweet nothings to each other. From within the WHS console you'll be able to suck recorded content from the TiVo onto the MediaSmart's expansive storage array and, from there, play it on any of your compatible devices (...
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CE-Oh no he didn't!: Katzenberg says 'beautifully styled' 3D glasses won't make you look like a dweeb 10 March 2010, 6:32 am
Another day, another CEO with more lip gloss than brain matter. Jeffrey Katzenberg has been talking to USA Today on what seems to be his favorite topic these days, 3D, and telling us that the glasses ain't no big deal. After all, "many many many people" wear glasses -- that's three lots of many for those keeping count at home -- and the new and improved 3D appendages are so "beautifully styled" that he expects them to start popping up at your local optometrist right next to the sunglasses and d...
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Dress Yourself, Linux Users [Linux] 10 March 2010, 9:40 am
A t-shirt-stuffed Linux store has opened for business, the proceeds from which support the Linux Foundation. But since Linux users are such penny-pinchers, $18 is probably more than they'll pay for a single garment of clothing. [LinuxStore via CrunchGear]
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Microsoft SideWinder X4 Review: Step Up, Son [Review] 10 March 2010, 9:00 am
First law of gadget recessionomics: Take something you make, which is great, make it ever so less great, and sell it for ever so less money. That's how you end up with products like Microsoft's SideWinder X4 keyboard.
The Price
$60 MSRP, $46 retail.
The Verdict
The SideWinder X6 was a marvelous fresh start for Microsoft's rejuvenated gaming hardware division, designed with a brooding Death Star aesthetic, shit hot jog wheels, and a hot-swappable detachable keyboard that can be hooked up to the l...
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Google Maps Gets Bike Lanes/Directions Just In Time for Spring [Biking] 10 March 2010, 8:59 am
Google added bike lanes and bicycle directions to Google Maps today, allowing you to find routes that aren't too hilly or congested. It's pretty awesome!
Bike functionality is available for over 150 American cities at the moment, but it's safe to assume that, like everything Google does, it will eventually expand to cover most of the planet. [Google Maps via Physorg]
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Blocks of Life Bubbling in the Orion Nebula [Science] 10 March 2010, 8:40 am
It's confirmed: Space is bubbling with the potential for life. The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared—on board the Herschel Space Observatory—has sent a high resolution analysis of the Orion Nebula's chemistry. It has scientists very excited.
It is astonishing to see how well HIFI works. We obtained this spectrum in a few hours and it already beats any other spectrum, at any other wavelength, ever taken of Orion. Organics are everywhere in this spectrum, even at the lowest l...
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Paper Calendar Tears Off Its Pages Automagically [Gadgets] 10 March 2010, 8:20 am
This daily calendar mixes analog, digital, nature, and poetry all in one: Every autumn day, each of its pages will fall off automatically, torn by a clever mechanism at its top. As this video shows, it works great. But why?
Because in autumn, leaf falls, that's why. And because it was commissioned as a promotional tool for clients by leaf blower manufacturer Stihl. [Direct Daily]
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Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives [Security] 10 March 2010, 7:58 am
With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean.
Why Erasing Files Is Not Enough
Sure, you could erase the contents of the drive, but keep this in mind: the act of erasing a file does not remove it from a storage device.
When you erase/delete a file from your computer, it's not really gone until the areas of the d...
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iKat Augmented Reality App Works Without Real-World Prompt [Apps] 10 March 2010, 7:40 am
Apart from the name—which I personally approve of very much—Zenitum's iKat app has another cool edge to it. It's (we think) the first augmented reality phone app to work without a marker, or real-world prompt.
The app itself is pretty basic, just a cartoon-like pet running around on whatever surface you aim the phone at. Zenitum, the South Korean company behind iKat, says the app has to recognize an environment to work:
"Based on Zenitum's D-Track engine, we are working on markerles...
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Japanese Otaku Update: Now They're Indulging In "Factory Night Jungle Cruises" [Japan] 10 March 2010, 7:00 am
When planning your next Japan visit, better put aside a night for a "factory night jungle cruise" if you want to be right up there with the latest Japanese otaku craze. They literally visit factories, at night.
According to Japan Trends, which brought the fad to our attention, the "factory love" is popular among photographers—which I can understand, as lit-up factories can be quite scenic—but also families and couples too. A cruise around Panasonic's factory doesn't seem quite as rom...
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South Korea Testing "Recharging Roads" For Its Public Transport [Transport] 10 March 2010, 6:41 am
South Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads, where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park.
The system is being tested at an amusement park in Seoul, but if all goes well, the country hopes to expand it to the whole city's bus route—helping minimize unsightly overhead power lines and obviously doing a good turn for the environment. D...
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40MP Pentax 645D Camera Will Be Japan's In May, And Ours Soon After [Cameras] 10 March 2010, 6:03 am
It's not a micro four thirds, but Pentax has lifted the lid on the 645D medium format camera, which will be available this May for close to $10,000. Why so expensive, you ask? There's that 40MP Kodak sensor for starters.
It's also got a SAFOX IX+ autofocus system with 11 sensor points, a Pentax original Real Image Engine, 14 bit A/D converter, and is the ultimate kick-around camera, with 70 seals making it dustproof, weather resistant and cold-proof. There's also a dust removal II system, just i...
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Google Apps becomes a platform, gets its own app store 10 March 2010, 9:31 am
At the Campfire One event last night, Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace and demonstrated how external Web applications from other vendors can be integrated into Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and other services that are part of the search giant's Web-based productivity suite.
In the quest for data liberation, Google's hosted Web services have long offered a wide range of APIs for third-party developers. With the launch of the new marketplace, however, Google ...
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Winning the war on cancer? US death rates show broad decline 10 March 2010, 8:52 am
President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971 and, since then, the National Cancer Institute (part of the NIH) has funded research on prevention, surveillance, and treatments. But, despite the effort, progress has been elusive, leading to press reports in Newsweek, Fortune, and The New York Times suggesting that, at best, cancer is fighting us to a draw. But a new analysis of death rates, performed by staff at the American Cancer Society, indicates that cancer death rates peaked around ...
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CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows 10 March 2010, 8:09 am
The CodePlex Foundation has announced the arrival of several new board members, including Jim Jagielski, the Chief Open Source Officer of SpringSource. Jagielski, who was one of the original cofounders of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), brings a lot of credibility and leadership experience to the CodePlex Foundation.
When the CodePlex Foundation was established by Microsoft last year, an interim board of directors was assembled to help get the organization off the grou...
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feature: True story: the making of the Terminator's laser-sighted .45 pistol 9 March 2010, 11:30 pm
One of the most striking images from The Terminator was the weapon he carried and used in his first attempt on Sarah Connor's life: the .45 Longslide, with laser sighting. Who can forget the scene in the gun shop? The gun was likewise such a striking presence on screen it was used on the film's poster. There are T-shirts dedicated to the gun.
Terminator was released in 1984, and while laser sights on weapons are common now, when the film was first shown the red laser was ab...
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HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers 9 March 2010, 9:25 pm
Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yal Reiner, Apple began warning top executives at companies such as HTC and Motorola in January that it wasn't too happy about seeing allegedly iPhone-related IP showing up in proposed new products.
According to "industry checks," Cook's comments last January during the quarterly ...
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MRI's successes put the brain on trial 9 March 2010, 7:24 pm
A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards, the hippocampus handles memory, and so on. These relationships have been the result of over a century of work, starting with rare cases of brain injury and building through modern medical imaging, which can detect ever-smaller lesions and associate neural activity...
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Facebook's location feature expected to launch next month 9 March 2010, 5:10 pm
Facebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. The rumor comes courtesy of anonymous sources who have been "briefed on the project" speaking to the New York Times, who said that Facebook will announce the feature at Facebook's annual f8 conference in late April.
The company's plans for such a feature have not been entirely secret—Facebook hinted a...
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Microsoft browser ballot gives Opera, Firefox a boost 9 March 2010, 4:22 pm
The Microsoft browser ballot released this month to Windows users in the EU is already doing Microsoft's rivals a favor. Two of the major competitors to Internet Explorer have seen an increase in downloads, while the other two are not willing to share data. We contacted the makers of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera; here's what they had to say.
Opera, the Norwegian browser maker that first filed a complaint with the European Union in December 2007, accusing Microsoft of violating EU a...
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The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030 9 March 2010, 3:33 pm
Google's recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating—but imagine what the Internet might be like if that connection to your home were even faster. Say... 100Gbps. In less than 20 years, such speeds will be possible, but only for companies who installed the right sort of fiber architecture.
The UK telecoms regulator Ofcom commissioned a lengthy report on the future of fiber (PDF) (or "fibre," in this case) from the ...
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FileMaker Pro goes to 11, admits people like spreadsheets 9 March 2010, 2:06 pm
Apple subsidiary FileMaker has released version 11 of its flagship FileMaker Pro database. The updated software purports to make building and maintaining databases even easier, while acknowledging that many users are accustomed to using spreadsheets for database purposes by including pivot table-like reporting and Excel-like charting features. FileMaker Pro Server has also been updated, dropping the simultaneous client access limit for the Advanced version.
FileMaker Pro alr...
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Pet allergy: What to do for relief 9 March 2010, 12:00 am
Pet allergy — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of allergy to animals....
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Female fertility: Why lifestyle choices count 9 March 2010, 12:00 am
Female fertility — Understand what you can do to protect and promote your fertility....
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Thumb arthritis: Self-care measures can ease pain 9 March 2010, 12:00 am
Thumb arthritis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of osteoarthritis in your basal (carpometacarpal) joint....
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Dust mite allergy 9 March 2010, 12:00 am
Dust mite allergy — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of allergy to dust mites....
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Water on the knee: Treatment to keep moving 6 March 2010, 12:00 am
Water on the knee — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of knee fluid buildup....
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Prostate cancer screening: Should you get a PSA test? 6 March 2010, 12:00 am
Prostate cancer screening — Find out if you need the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test....
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Secondhand smoke: Avoid dangers in the air 6 March 2010, 12:00 am
Secondhand smoke — Understand the dangers and consider options for clearing the air....
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Relaxation drinks: Does calm come in a can? 6 March 2010, 12:00 am
Need to chill out? Makers of relaxation drinks hope you'll reach for a can....
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Cystitis: Antibiotics, other treatments can help 6 March 2010, 12:00 am
Cystitis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention of bladder inflammation....
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Aphasia: Communications disorder can be disabling 6 March 2010, 12:00 am
Aphasia — Comprehensive overview covers causes, treatment, coping skills for this communication disorder....
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Platelet Rich Plasma Helps Tennis Elbow 10 March 2010, 9:54 am
Platelet rich plasma -- injections of a patient's own blood platelets -- heals of tennis elbow better than cortisone shots, a randomized study finds....
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CDC: Genital Herpes Rates Still High 9 March 2010, 6:06 pm
One in six Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes and close to 1 in 2 black women are infected, new figures from the CDC reveal....
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Good Health Boosts Sexual Life Expectancy 9 March 2010, 6:04 pm
Good health may not only help you live longer, it could help you enjoy a longer, more satisfying sex life as well, a study shows....
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Melanoma Cases on the Rise 9 March 2010, 5:29 pm
While some researchers suggest the rising rates of melanoma may simply reflect a change in how doctors diagnose melanoma and the increased availability of skin cancer screenings, a leading dermatologist says the increase is real....
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Companies Get Poor Grades for Kids' Food Ads 9 March 2010, 5:03 pm
Most companies lack meaningful policies to curb the marketing of high-fat and high-sugar junk food to children, according to a report by a consumer watchdog group....
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Vaccinate Kids to Stop Flu in Community 9 March 2010, 3:38 pm
New research confirms that giving flu shots to large numbers of school-age children can protect the community at large....
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Long-Term Health Risks Low for Kidney Donors 9 March 2010, 3:04 pm
Kidney donors fare just as well as non-donors over the long term, according to a new study....
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'Curry' Cream May Fade Wrinkles 9 March 2010, 2:39 pm
A moisturizing cream whose active ingredient is the extract that gives Indian curry its distinctive flavor, smel,l and deep orange color may help fade fine facial lines, wrinkles, and aging spots....
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Tumor-Melting Virus vs. Prostate Cancer 9 March 2010, 1:56 pm
Reovirus is harmless to normal cells -- but it destroys many kinds of cancer cells. A new study in patients with prostate cancer takes the virus closer to being a new cancer treatment....
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Sleep Habits Vary by Ethnicity 9 March 2010, 10:30 am
Sleep problems and sleep habits vary among different ethnic groups, according to a new national survey. But among all ethnicities, there remains a common denominator: Many of us simply don't get enough sleep....
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Really?: The Claim: A Glass of Wine With Dinner Aids Digestion 10 March 2010, 2:00 am
Can wine help you digest your meal?
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Flu Shots in Children Can Help Community 10 March 2010, 1:40 am
A study of farming colonies in Canada found that giving flu vaccine to schoolchildren protected the community.
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Maker Drops Hip Device, Then Warns of Failures 10 March 2010, 12:20 am
DePuy Orthopaedics alerted doctors to a high early failure rate of its artificial hip after announcing it would phase out the device citing slow sales.
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Economic Scene: Wishing for a Health Care Plan That Cuts Costs 9 March 2010, 11:34 pm
President Obama’s health reform plan is a mixed bag, but it may be the only program passed.
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Merck and Sanofi-Aventis Combine Animal Health Units 9 March 2010, 11:00 pm
The combined business would jointly control about 29 percent of the $19 billion-a-year global market for medicines for pets and livestock.
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Q & A: Almonds for Calcium? 9 March 2010, 5:40 pm
Are almonds a good source of calcium or do they block calcium absorption?
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Recipes for Health: Clam or Mussel Stew With Greens and Beans 9 March 2010, 2:33 pm
This wonderful winter seafood stew is easy to make and to serve.
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Recipes for Health: Greens and Mushroom Panini 9 March 2010, 1:09 pm
When you blanch the greens, these panini make for a quick and wonderful meal.
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Recipes for Health: Winter’s Greens 9 March 2010, 1:09 pm
Looking for new ways to get greens in your diet? An innovative panino and luxurious gratin are among this week’s recipes.
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After Cancer, Removing a Healthy Breast 9 March 2010, 1:02 pm
A procedure gains popularity but doesn't improve survival odds.
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Short-Sale Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss 9 March 2010, 12:16 pm
The Obama administration will offer homeowners $1,500 to sell for less than the mortgage balance.
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Obama Turns Up the Volume in Health Care Bid 9 March 2010, 11:30 am
In an appearance that harked back to his 2008 campaign, President Obama made an emotional pitch for public support.
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Letters Capture American Grief After the Kennedy Assassination 9 March 2010, 8:48 am
A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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Eric J. Massa Says Democratic Party Drove Him From Office 9 March 2010, 6:53 am
Eric J. Massa from New York, accused of sexual harassment, said that party leaders had orchestrated a campaign against him.
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Experts Urge Keeping Two Options for Terror Trials 9 March 2010, 4:15 am
Former national security officials say eliminating civilian trials for foreign terrorism suspects would tie the government’s hands.
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Biden Arrives in Mideast to Push Israeli-Palestinian Talks 9 March 2010, 1:40 am
The vice president will also try to keep Israel focused on relying on sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program rather than on unilateral military action.
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Sidebar: Dissents From the Bench Hint at a Polarized Supreme Court 9 March 2010, 12:10 am
The practice of Supreme Court justices reading a dissent from the bench to note their unhappiness is on the rise.
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States See Flaw in Obama Plan for Health Insurance Premiums 8 March 2010, 11:58 pm
Experts said state officials might be left to worry about the solvency of insurers, the ultimate consumer protection.
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National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Halt Sought on Medical Marijuana Raids 8 March 2010, 11:43 pm
Four state lawmakers trying to regulate marijuana dispensaries sent a request to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday to stop raids on medical marijuana operations.
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Supreme Court Roundup: Court Takes Case of Church Protesting Marine’s Funeral 8 March 2010, 11:42 pm
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine may sue protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church who picketed the funeral.
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James Sample: Roberts: Corporate $peech Good, Presidential Speech "Very Troubling" 10 March 2010, 10:01 am
The Umpire is feeling his oats. Yesterday, less than two months after the Supreme Court (1) overturned campaign spending cases decided by the Supreme Court......
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Robert L. Borosage: All You Really Need to Know about Banking Reform 10 March 2010, 9:56 am
Financial reform, as it is called, shouldn't be all that complicated. Break up the banks deemed "too big to fail," since that offends any......
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Todd Kashdan: Why We Need Psychologists in Government and the White House 10 March 2010, 9:56 am
We need people that are experts in problem solving, decision making, communication, human behavior, and social relationships to create the conditions for a government to function optimally....
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Kathleen Sebelius Pushes Health Care Reform In Front Of Insurance Companies (SPEECH EXCERPTS) 10 March 2010, 9:50 am
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is scheduled to address the annual gathering of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) on Wednesday, bringing with......
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Dr. Jim Taylor: Anti-corporate Anger vs. Anti-government Anger: Who to Trust? 10 March 2010, 9:45 am
It's easy to understand the anti-corporate anger felt by so many Americans these days. Big Business reaps massive profits through often-times reckless dealings and cost cutting....
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Ron Ashkenas: A Dangerous Pattern: Rewarding Failure 10 March 2010, 9:45 am
Cross-posted from Harvard Business Online Over the past few months there has been growing anger and frustration about outsized Wall Street bonuses awarded by institutions......
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Anthony Tarricone: During Patient Safety Awareness Week, Remember Injured Patients 10 March 2010, 9:43 am
This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual national education and awareness-building campaign that this year carries greater implications for patient safety than any......
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New Health Care Poll Shows Only FOUR PERCENT Of Americans Don't Want Any Reform 10 March 2010, 9:35 am
WASHINGTON Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that's nowhere......
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Rob Shepardson: Last Thursday, CNN was in Washington. Â Maybe they should have been in Coral Gables. 10 March 2010, 9:17 am
The answers weren't on CNN that day, but that doesn't mean we don't already know how to help real people in need. We do. And these folks have some important answers....
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Tom Engelhardt: Premature Withdrawal: Washington's Cult of Narcissism and Iraq 10 March 2010, 9:09 am
Without the U.S. military on hand, we're told, the Iraqis will almost certainly deep-six democracy, while devolving into major civil violence. But the Iraqis did descend into a monumental bloodbath. It happened in our presence....
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Gibbs to Roberts: The troubling thing is your Citizens United decision 10 March 2010, 9:40 am
Robert Gibbs wasted no time firing back at John Roberts who on Tuesday told a law school audience in Alabama that President Obama's criticism of the court's ruling in Citizens United was "troubling." Sam Stein reports: In a statement sent to reporters, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the only troubling thing was the 5-4 ruling by the court, which said that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of money advocating on behalf of candidates in elections. Roberts leads the ...
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Mitch McConnell, Concern Troll 10 March 2010, 9:00 am
Of course McConnell has the Democrats best interests at heart: As Republicans work to prevent a health-care bill from reaching President Obama, they are scrambling to exploit divisions between Democrats in the House and the Senate. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned House Democrats that they would be taking a colossal risk if they approved the Senate's version of health-care legislation before the Senate had acted to remove some of the bill's ...
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Today in Congress 10 March 2010, 8:30 am
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. "One Minutes" (15 per side) Suspensions (9 Bills): H.R. 4786 - To provide authority to compensate Federal employees for the 2-day period in which authority to make expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund lapsed (Rep. Connolly - Transportation ...
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up 10 March 2010, 7:09 am
Wednesday opinion and nutty as a a fruitcake edition. Can we talk? Tom Friedman: Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right. It should have and could have been pursued with much better planning and execution. This war has been extraordinarily painful and costly. But democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in a place like Iraq, which has never known any such thing. Some argue that nothing that happens in Iraq wi...
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Open Thread for Night Owls: The War on (Some) Drugs 9 March 2010, 11:16 pm
At High Country News, Charles Bowden writes about The War Next Door: Adam Smith's invisible hand meets magical realism on the border The man talking on the screen was recruited by the drug industry in Ciudad Juarez, sent to the state police academy, where he got around $150 a month as a student and around $1,000 a month from the drug industry as their sponsored law enforcement person. He was also trained by the FBI in Tucson, Ariz., (he told me the training was very good) and headed an anti-ki...
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Open Thread and Diary Rescue 9 March 2010, 10:00 pm
Tonight's Rescue brought to you by ItsJessMe, YatPundit, dadanation, srkp23, claude, grog, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. Moving mountains (of coal ash) will not be easy, as DWG explains in this thoroughly researched analysis of the issue, the EPA, and coal in general. (claude) In a must-read diary, Ojibwa recounts the historical importance of water to Native American cultures in Dam Indians: Some B...
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Time to stock up on "survival seeds"! 9 March 2010, 9:16 pm
With over 100 advertisers (and counting) abandoning Glenn Beck's show, it's obvious that what's left is the dregs of the world, like these guys. But the gold dealers dominating the ranks of his advertisers have new competition: Yup. All those Beck viewers are suckers, because their gold stockpile will be worth less than seeds! But that's not all! You know how Obama wants to steal your guns and shit? That's not all he's trying to confiscate! Phew! That's a relief. Because as we all know, the...
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Credit, and when and where's it's due 9 March 2010, 8:30 pm
Another day, another parasitic rip-off of someone else's journalistic heavy-lifting. Must be another case of the traditional media complaining about riffraff bloggers living off its professional investigative work, right? Oh, wait. Here's Roll Call, presenting a lengthy hard news piece about Base Connect (formerly BMW Direct), a direct-mail fundraising firm that rips off right-wing candidates by pocketing 75% or more of the money they raise. Funny thing is, TPMMuckracker had an in-depth story ...
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With Friends Like Rush Limbaugh ... 9 March 2010, 7:56 pm
Poor Eric Massa -- it only took a day to go from being Rush Limbaugh's hero: This story speaks for itself ... Massa says the White House and Emanuel went after him because of the health care vote ... Now, Massa warns us what we all know, but I think you need to hear it from a Democrat being forced out by Obama and Steny Hoyer and Pelosi ... So Congressman Massa, we're doing our part here to make it a national story ... This guy is as fired up as anybody I've ever heard anywhere opposed this, a...
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Goldman Sachs Sued 9 March 2010, 7:20 pm
The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers is doing more than complaining about how much money bailed-out bank executives are making: Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) was sued on Monday by a large union pension fund that accused the Wall Street investment bank of overpaying its executives. The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers fund filed the lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to recover money for the company on behalf of other shareholders. It seeks to stop Goldman ...
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Unemployment Rates, by State: Most Regions Added Jobs in January 10 March 2010, 10:03 am
Thirty states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rate increases in January from a month earlier, while states registered rate decreases, the Labor Department said. But in a sign the job market is inching toward recovery 31 states added jobs in the first month of the year....
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Secondary Sources: Fed Seats, Paul Ryan, Extended Jobless Benefits 10 March 2010, 9:14 am
A roundup of economic news from around the Web....
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Video: Economist Expects Greater Frequency of Recessions 10 March 2010, 6:13 am
Anirvan Banerji, director of research at Economic Cycle Research, joins the News Hub to discuss why he believes the U.S. economy will experience more frequent recessions ahead....
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Young Adults Fret Over Jobs, Haven’t Lost Hope 9 March 2010, 4:26 pm
Young people are worried about losing their jobs and paying their bills, but they’re still holding out hope that conditions will improve....
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Caterpillar CEO Sees Stronger Rebound Boosting Sales 9 March 2010, 1:20 pm
Sales at Caterpillar Inc. are expected to rise 10%-25% this year on inventory restocking and a stronger global rebound than was initially expected, James W. Owens, the company’s chairman and chief executive, said on Tuesday....
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Fed Lieutenant’s Speech Suggests Rate Increase by Year End 9 March 2010, 12:02 pm
For some time now, Federal Reserve officials have been hesitant to put a precise time frame on when they will begin to tighten policy, except to note the action lies well into the future....
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Economy Still Breeding Doom And Gloom 9 March 2010, 9:53 am
The latest readings from consumers and small business owners indicate economic sentiment isn't improving, despite signs of a factory rebound and less gloom on the labor front....
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Secondary Sources: Too Big to Fail, 4% Inflation, Commercial Real Estate 9 March 2010, 9:51 am
A roundup of economic news from around the Web....
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Small Businesses Turn More Pessimistic 9 March 2010, 6:32 am
Small-business owners in the U.S. turned slightly more pessimistic in February, although employment readings grew a shade more positive....
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Senior Fed Official Lays Out More Exit Detail 8 March 2010, 8:30 pm
The Federal Reserve pumped more than $1 trillion dollars into the economy at a lightning pace, but it plans to take it out glacially, a senior Fed official said in a speech Monday.
Brian Sack, who runs the markets group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, laid out more detail on the Fed’s plans to reduce its massive holdings of mortgage backed securities and Treasurys in a speech to the National Association of Business Economics in Washington....
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Limo Driver Turned Hedge Fund Manager Pleads Guilty 9 March 2010, 4:15 pm
Alan Fishman, the limo driver-cum-hedge fund manager president who admitted last year to screwing AR Capital investors just a little bit, has pleaded guilty to fraud (Fishman had caught the investing bug while driving around a bunch of investment bankers and lawyers, and decided one day to “take a crack at his customers’ game”).
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Trish Regan’s Diet Tips 9 March 2010, 4:00 pm
Trish Regan’s been look pretty good lately, no? Especially for a woman who just gave birth a few months ago? I’m sure you’ve noticed, as has John Carney, who needed to know more. The crack journalist did some digging and found out that you, too, can look like this, by incorporating a…...
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Bill Gates To “Top” Warren Buffett Tomorrow? 9 March 2010, 3:31 pm
Tomorrow, Forbes will release its annual list of the richest billionaires in the world. Who will take the number one and two spots? The CNBC brain trust has crunched some numbers and is guessing it’ll be Gates, followed by Buffett. This is all pretty upsetting to everyone in the Oracle’s camp, as…...
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Top SEC Economist James Overdahl Quits 9 March 2010, 3:00 pm
Apparently he’d had it with the commission’s freaky ass rules. Publicly, he’s talking about the ones relating to short selling, though odds are he wasn’t thrilled about this shit, either.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s top economist is leaving the agency after Chairman Mary Schapiro merged his office with another and passed short- selling…...
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Lenny Dykstra Is Ready To Prove Himself To Society 9 March 2010, 1:34 pm
So, Lenny Dykstra has asked a judge to dismiss his bankruptcy case. Why? Nails has a reason.
“Bottom line, you don’t belong in bankruptcy when you have $100 million in assets,” Dykstra said Tuesday in a telephone interview.
Oh, okay $100 million in assets, that makes sense. LD has another good reason for his…...
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Certain Goldman Sachs Shareholders Still Don’t Get It 9 March 2010, 12:06 pm
Last week, Goldman Sachs announced that the experiment wherein upper management acted like it cared what shareholders think, validated their feelings, took out the trash without having to be asked and so on and so forth was over. Not sure if The International Brotherhood of Electric Workers missed it in the 10-K or if…...
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Lindsay Lohan Is Suing E*Trade For Basing Whore-Baby On Her Life 9 March 2010, 10:45 am
So, okay. A new E*Trade commercial has that day-trading baby two-timing a couple of girl babies. The one who is supposed to be his girlfriend (weird?) wants to know where he was last night, and doesn’t buy that he got busy “diversifying [his] portfolio.” She suggests he was banging “that milk-a-holic Lindsay.” …...
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Harry Markopolos Is Not Quite Certain Anyone At The SEC Knows How To Read 9 March 2010, 9:32 am
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Opening Bell: 03.09.10 9 March 2010, 9:00 am
Merkel Urges Regulation as Greece Takes Plea to U.S. (Bloomberg)
Merkel, speaking to reporters in Luxembourg today before Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou meets President Barack Obama in Washington, said the European Union must take the lead in curbing the “very speculative elements” of derivatives trading, going beyond previous Group of 20 nations agreements. The U.S.…...
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Write-Offs: 03.08.10 8 March 2010, 7:16 pm
$$$ Life After Porn: The Retirement Challenge [CNBC]
$$$ Tim Geithner: ““Why do policymakers screw up financial crises?” he said before I left his office. “They screw up financial crises because the politics are horrible, and that deters action. They are slow and late and tentative and weak because they are scared to death of the…...
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Synchronicity 10 March 2010, 8:30 am
A splendid graph, showing high-frequency data on water consumption in Edmonton during the men's Olympic hockey final (on February 28), and comparing it with the rather smoother pattern seen the day before.
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An Organic Discount? 9 March 2010, 2:00 pm
For most products, an "organic" label results in a significant price premium. However, a new study finds that the opposite is true for California wines labeled as "made from organically grown grapes."
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Keeping Workers Happy – and Working 9 March 2010, 1:00 pm
Much economic research stresses the role of pensions and Social Security in inducing retirement-altering the labor supply of older workers. Yet there are also demand-side effects that make firms unwilling to allow most workers to ease out.
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The Persistence of the Primitive Food Movement 9 March 2010, 11:06 am
Americans are currently embracing a strange sort of primitivism. Bicycles are losing gears, runners are afoot in shoes designed to create a barefoot sensation (some are even running barefoot), and men are growing bushy Will Oldham-like beards. It's all very curious and entertaining.
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Obama the Talmudist? 9 March 2010, 9:15 am
The inspiration for a recent Obama speech.
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How to Become an Insta-Expert: A Confession 8 March 2010, 11:00 am
Using the prediction markets to become an insta-expert in just about anything.
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The Dangers of Too Much Data 8 March 2010, 9:01 am
Wondering whether aspirin will protect your heart or cause internal bleeding? Or whether you should kick your coffee habit or embrace it? It's often hard to make sense of the conflicting advice that comes out of medical research studies.
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Friends Don't Let Friends ... 5 March 2010, 12:00 pm
The origins of a classic phrase.
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Small Improvements Save Lots of Time 5 March 2010, 10:00 am
Small technical changes often shift our production possibility frontier outward, and make a big difference in our well-being, even if they don't increase measured GDP.
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The Piano Matters 5 March 2010, 8:30 am
History's greatest composers wrote for their pianos, and a new Slate article by Jan Swafford argues that only an old piano can play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as Beethoven intended it.
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Safety issues loom as humanoid invasion approaches 10 March 2010, 5:52 am
Robots are coming out of their industrial cages and into our lives, prompting engineers to search out new kinds of safety features...
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Women with good genes may have more sexual partners 10 March 2010, 2:00 am
Female students with a genetically diverse immune system said they had sex with more people than their peers did...
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Obama criticised for lack of science reform 9 March 2010, 6:26 pm
The Union of Concerned Scientists says the Obama administration is 'moving too slowly' to remove political interference from science...
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Extinct giant bird DNA recovered from fossil eggs 9 March 2010, 6:01 pm
DNA from a 19,000-year-old emu eggshell has been isolated – the first time such a feat has been pulled off...
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Eyeless hydra sheds light on evolution of the eye 9 March 2010, 6:01 pm
Molecules that help a jellyfish-like animal sense light suggest how similar compounds in the eyes of mammals could have evolved...
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Apollo rocks dusted off to find new evidence of water 9 March 2010, 5:14 pm
Forty years after the Apollo astronauts bounced across the moon, new studies are revealing water inside the samples they returned – and showing how close they may have come to water-coated soil...
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Music and lyrics: How the brain splits songs 9 March 2010, 4:00 pm
When you sing along to the radio, is your brain processing the words and music separately or as one?...
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Sushi restaurant raided after Hollywood sting 9 March 2010, 2:21 pm
The producers of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove teamed up with government agents to investigate a California restaurant rumoured to be selling whale meat...
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Today on New Scientist: 9 March 2010 9 March 2010, 12:00 pm
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: extermination in paradise, the "midwife molecule" that could have assembled Earth's first life, and why chameleons can eat breakfast...
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Mars glacier lubricant could fuel rockets 9 March 2010, 10:41 am
The ice at the planet's north pole may be moving on a bed of salty sludge, which one day could be handy for fuel...
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God Helps with Personal Decisions, Most Americans Say 10 March 2010, 10:21 am
God is involved in our everyday lives, most Americans believe....
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Big Generation Gaps in Work Attitudes Revealed 10 March 2010, 9:20 am
Young workers called GenMe are more likely than their elders to value leisure over work and to place a premium on rewards such as higher salaries and status....
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Effort to Map Human Brain Faces Complex Challenges 10 March 2010, 8:12 am
Neuroscientists hope to harness computing power to help map millions of miles of "wiring" that connects brain cells....
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Stress Changes Who Men Find Attractive 9 March 2010, 7:19 pm
Stress can change who men find attractive....
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Men Outlive Women Sexually 9 March 2010, 6:59 pm
Men might not live as long as women, but their sexual life expectancy is higher, a new survey of sexual activity finds....
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Donating a Kidney Doesn't Shorten Donor's Life 9 March 2010, 4:05 pm
Live kidney donors are likely to live just as long as non-donors over the long term, a new study says....
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What Do Kidneys Do? 9 March 2010, 4:01 pm
The bean-shaped organs on either side of the spine act like nature's recycling centers....
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Metal From Hip Implants Passed on to Babies 9 March 2010, 2:04 pm
Pregnant women with metal-on-metal hip implants pass metal ions on to their offspring, a new study says...
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First 3-D TV Channels from DirecTV Available in June 9 March 2010, 1:43 pm
In June, DirecTV will become the first pay-TV provider to offer 3-D channels compatible with the new 3-D TVs....
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New Species of Worm Found in Great Barrier Reef 9 March 2010, 12:59 pm
Four new species of worm unearthed in sands of Great Barrier Reef....
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Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds 10 March 2010, 8:50 am
In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird....
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Is Number of Earthquakes on the Rise? (Washington Post) 10 March 2010, 8:50 am
Are the recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Turkey a coincidence or a sign of increases seismic activity?...
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Real-life Hurt Locker: How Bomb-Proof suits work 10 March 2010, 8:20 am
A fascinating look at how bomb-proof suits actually work...
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Woman tries to shut down Large Hadron Collider 10 March 2010, 7:48 am
A German woman has failed in a bid to force her country's government to halt experiments at the world's largest atom smasher which she feared would lead to the Earth's destruction....
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S.Korea Unveils 'Recharging Road' for Eco-Friendly Buses 10 March 2010, 4:20 am
"South Korean researchers Tuesday launched an environmentally friendly public transport system using a 'recharging road' -- with a vehicle sucking power magnetically from buried electric strips."...
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Insulators Made Into Conductors 10 March 2010, 1:40 am
Most polymers -- materials made of long, chain-like molecules -- are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But scientists have now found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator......
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Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal 10 March 2010, 12:50 am
Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground....
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When Goods Get Traded, Who Pays for the CO2? 10 March 2010, 12:30 am
The carbon equation isn't as straightforward as we might think. Scientists find that rich nations are essentially outsourcing some of their carbon emissions to developing nations through global trade...
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Will Lunar Hole Become First Settlement on the Moon? 9 March 2010, 11:50 pm
An international team of scientists has discovered an enormous hole that may well become the base for a moon colony. The lunar “lava tube” is not a new find, but the lava sheet that protects it and appears not to be prone to collapse, makes it different from all the others....
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Finally see an actual Giant Squid 9 March 2010, 11:24 pm
Controversial anatomist Gunther von Hagens has stuffed the monstrous pair of squid with silicone for preservation. A new technique preserves the squid in a life like form....