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| | | | |  The good news is that traffic fatalities are on the decline -- in fact, the most recent stats are among the lowest ever recorded. The bad news? | | | | | |
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| | | | |  New findings point to relationship issues as the primary cause of female sexual dysfunction | | | | | |
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| | | | | | When the US Food and Drug Administration told the makers of cholesterol-lowering statins to add new side effect warnings to their labels last week, many of the 40 million statin users may have been unaware that there were real risks associated with these drugs that have been touted by some cardiologists to be safer than aspirin. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  It feels like it's been forever since the SOPA debate dominated headlines. That particular discussion largely subsided after an unprecedented show of Web-fueled outrage forced members of Congress to rethink their support for the controversial anti-piracy legislation. Before the anti-SOPA blackout, there was the backlash against GoDaddy, which stuck out like a sore thumb as the only prominent Internet company on the list of SOPA supporters. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Walker claims that he does not want to use state money. However, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that there are specific reasons that one can set up such a fund under certain circumstances. But election lawyers said the governor's move appeared a tacit acknowledgment that Walker is under investigation for violations of state election law. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | A rigorous analysis of data from studies conducted decades ago suggest that one dose of the hallucinogenic drug could help people stop drinking. It's the latest work to call for further research on therapeutic use of hallucinogens. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Images released today show the scars of a firefight which pepper the house where 28-year-old engineer Chris McManus and his colleague Franco Lamolinara were held in a suburb of Sokoto. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A senior British judge, ignoring new reduced drug sentencing guidelines, has jailed six men for growing marijuana. Judge Alan Goldsack criticized new regulations that became effective last week and ignored the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A zigzag path can be quicker than a straight line when travelling underwater, due to constantly changing currents that can both help and hinder progress. Now, researchers have figured out an algorithm that lets automated underwater vehicles (AUVs) navigate turbulent waters in the most efficient way possible. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  There are a lot of fun ways you can reuse beer and wine bottles. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Another day in South Carolina and another Republican shamed due to ethic violations and other corruptible behaviors. Lt. Governor (now former) Ken Ard has resigned and been handed five years probation, a $5,000 fine and 300 hours community service for his misdeeds. But, really? Will this change the Republican stranglehold on this state? Nope. Not at all. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | This week, existential angst about The Name, new iPad's revelations about the new iPhone, being unclear on Clearwire, and a formula for creating your own conclusion about The Date for iPhone 5. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Dear Esther doesn't include the type of gameplay you might be used to in a video game, but its underlying structure is fairly traditional. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Yesterday we put out an appeal on Twitter asking for people who wanted their first names to be analysed - and we were inundated with replies. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Apple's new iCloud suite will officially replace iWork.com on July 31, 2012, at which point users will no longer be able to access their documents from the site. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, Obama said Republican critiques are part of “the usual politics†in an election year and condescendingly added, “These aren't video games that we're playing here.†Tough accusations. Senator John McCain thinks they cross a line. “I have never seen a president deal in personal character attacks the way that this president does,†he told me last week. “That can only mean that he's insecure about his position. He does not have the experience or knowledge on these issues so he resorts to these personal comments or attacks.â | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Blizzard has long claimed that Diablo 3 would release "when it's done," but today it's rather shockingly reversed that policy. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  And you thought the House was busy with its jobs bill. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Microsoft isn't too keen on discussing the Xbox 720 or whatever it plans to call its next generation game console, and apparently the Redmond outfit isn't all that keen on optical drives, either. We've heard reports that the next Xbox iteration might ditch optical storage hardware entirely, and now at least one website claims to have confirmed... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The headline sums it up nicely but really, those photographic acrobatics account for only part of the story. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  T-Mobile's Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman has an interesting idea for revamping the mobile industry -- and it involves killing the subsidy plans that have driven smartphone adoption over the past five years. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Iain Sinclair's "Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project" is a kneecapping of the dreams of the 2012 London Olympic development. It's not an exposé so much as an eyewitness account of what it means to be on the ground, on the periphery, when government and private big money collaborate to reshape a large chunk of a city. Blue fences obstructing public walkways and security guards who won't let people take pictures. Old buried thorium disturbed by construction and coming out in the water table. Dubious land deals and suspicious finances. Critically panned architecture and excessive s | | | | | |
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| | | | |  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians chanting "Time for change" challenged Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory on Saturday but their numbers were far fewer than in previous weeks. People who demonstrated in bright sunshine in central Moscow waved flags, balloons and banners and wore white ribbons, the symbol of protests that began three months ago. Echoing chants from previous rallies, they shouted "Russia without Putin". "The road will be long and hard, it will be no quick struggle, but we will do it all. ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  "We have no plans to inject ads into your photo albums," Google SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra told a pretty huge audience at SXSWi today. "We should not be injecting ads into your most intimate social experiences." The man who calls the shots on Google+ understands that you don't want to be advertised to when you're looking at pictures of your newborn daughter. "It is our goal to make ads into content," Gundotra told us. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  On Tuesday the Department of Education released the details of a stunning report showing that public schools routinely punish minority students unfairly. What can be done? | | | | | |
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| | | | |  City watchdogs have issued their most excoriating attack yet on any of the British banks over their role in the financial crisis, accusing the giant HBOS of "very serious misconduct". | | | | | |
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| | | | |  On March 14, 2011 we first published a list of thirty pieces of Republican legislation "that Republicans are using to destroy America" and called it "The Dirty Thirty." That original list has been updated several times and grown significantly although the list is incomplete, given there have been a thousand bills alone restricting a woman's right to abortion. If most of the laws directed toward Women's Reproductive Rights seem petty and punitive, well…they are. In fact, the goal of Republican legislation seems increasingly to be this: to punish the rest of us for not being like t | | | | | |
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| | | | |  We have to admit: We love us a good 'dumb criminal' story -- which is we're going to take a moment to celebrate these idiots. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  You can tell a lot about a person by whose name they're shouting when they wake up drenched in their own urine. But unless they're getting disemboweled by Freddy Krueger or in a Christopher Nolan film, we rarely get to look at what evil lurks in the wetmares of famous fictional characters. Until now. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is fast becoming the premier speaker on science in the world today. In this vid, he presents a compelling argument on refunding the space program to the United States Senate. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The American job market is still a long way from healthy, but its pulse feels a lot stronger now that it did six months ago. The improvement is a boon for President Obama as he tries to hold onto his own job in November, but he and his Republican rivals say 8.3 percent unemployment is not low enough. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Pope Benedict XVI waded deep into U.S. campaign politics Friday, urging visiting U.S. bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Digital pin-board site Pinterest is scorching hot. People are pinning like crazy. Publishers are benefiting from an uptick in Pinterest-driven traffic. And venture capitalists are tripping over themselves to get a piece of the social property. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  For most of us, causing a brutal accident at the workplace means yet another week standing in the unemployment line on crutches. But for some superhero scientists, injuring themselves due to their own sloppy work gave them superpowers instead. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Paypal is demonstrating a new digital wallet at SXSW Interactive today. At the conference, Sam Shrauger, a vice president at Paypal, revealed that the Paypal wallet will free consumers' money to let them "connect it, filter it, personalize it, share it, and make it work for the way that you w... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The OnLive Desktop app enables users to run a Windows desktop on an Apple iPad or Android tablet, freeing users from their PCs even if they want to use Microsoft Office. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  On International Women's Day, we speak with Loretta Ross of the SisterSong Reproductive Justice Collective about the latest wave of legislative attacks on reproductive rights..... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Harriet Wheeler (pictured), 25, from Wandsworth, south London, was given the jacket from a friend but did not have the heart to tell him it wasn't her style. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  It was once an essential component of the media that helped millions to be able to visualize the world from a distance in news reports and features. Often the photos that were brought to us by photojournalists with expensive cameras were more imp ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It's been well known that search engines and social media sites have the ability to help predict the outcome of national and world events. A deep look into the trends can help to shed light on what will soon come to pass. It's far from exact but has been shown to be fairly accurate. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The agency's Near-Earth Objects Program head points out many fallacies, including the claim that an imaginary planet will collide with Earth in December. Thousands of astronomers have not seen this | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The sexiest eligible MILFs. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Our little 9 month project. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  All work and no play makes even the hottest smartphone downright dull. It's with this in mind that Samsung is showcasing Rovio's latest creation, | | | | | |
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| | | | |  BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed. Annan's talks in Damascus come a day after activists said Assad's forces killed at least 68 people as they sought to extend control over the rebellious city of Homs and crush armed opposition in the northern province of Idlib. Arab foreign ministers were also due to hold talks in Cairo with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Russia and China vetoed a U.N. ... | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A Chinese newspaper claims two young girls committed suicide in hopes of traveling back in time like the characters on popular TV shows. Is this a real case of death-by-TV, or is it government propaganda? | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The U.S. military and the Afghan government sealed an agreement Friday on the gradual transfer of control of the main U.S. prison in the country, a last-minute breakthrough that brings the first progress in months in contentious negotiations over a long-term partnership. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  What Are We Borrowing From Our Neighbors? | | | | | |
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| | | | |  An American Airlines flight attendant, who was apparently "off her meds," said she's "not responsible for crashing this plane" over a PA after an issue with the pilot. She was dragged from the plane. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | With the caveat that many of these apps are still in a preview phase themselves, here are our top picks for must-have Windows 8 Metro apps. | | | | | |
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