  Latest In Sports 2012-02-06T03:21:32Z
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - The New York Giants battled back to beat the New England Patriots 21-17 and win the Super Bowl with heart-stopping fourth quarter comeback capped by a six-yard touchdown run by Ahmad Bradshaw with 57 seconds left. The Giants, who trailed 10-9 at the half and 17-9 in the third quarter, clawed back with two field goals by Lawrence Tynes before mounting an 88-yard drive to thwart the Patriots for the second time in four years in the Super Bowl. ...
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Feb 5 (Reuters) - In a stunning reversal of fortune,Kyle Stanley bounced back from his own nightmare a week ago towin the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona by one shot onSunday as Spencer Levin suffered an agonising meltdown. While Stanley came from eight behind going into the finalround to claim his first PGA Tour victory, overnight leaderLevin squandered an early seven-stroke cushion to finish third. "I just didn't have it," Levin told reporters after mixingfour bogeys with two birdies and a costly double-bogey at thepar-five 15th. ...
2012-02-06T03:31:48Z
It was déjà vu for New York Giants fans as they watched their team again beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl 21-17.
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Julia Mancuso's wait for her first win of the season is over. Lindsey Vonn will have to wait a little longer to break another record.
2012-02-06T03:37:23Z
A season that began with heartbreak for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft ended with another loss.
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning was named the Most Valuable Player in Sunday's Super Bowl after leading his team to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots. Manning, who was also named MVP when the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl four years ago, joined Bart Starr, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana and Tom Brady as the only players to win the award more than once. (Reporting by Julian Linden)
2012-02-06T03:42:01Z
Eli Manning is elite, for sure. A king of comebacks, too. And far, far more than Peyton's little brother now.
2012-02-05T22:08:50Z
LeBron James took a hard foul and clearly was not happy. So the next time he saw the ball, he made sure no Toronto player could reach him.
2012-02-06T01:24:11Z
Kyle Stanley knew exactly how Spencer Levin felt.
2012-02-06T04:00:40Z
Take that, Brady. You too, Peyton.
2012-02-06T01:20:58Z
Tom Brady overcame a rare early Super Bowl safety with a perfect 10-for-10 drive late in the second quarter, and his 4-yard touchdown pass to Danny Woodhead gave the New England Patriots a 10-9 lead over the New York Giants at halftime of the NFL championship game Sunday night.
2012-02-06T01:37:02Z
Tom Brady is absolutely on fire.
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Tom Brady overcame a rare early Super Bowl safety with a perfect 10-for-10 drive late in the second quarter, capping it with a 4-yard touchdown pass to Danny Woodhead to give the New England Patriots a 10-9 lead over the New York Giants at halftime on Sunday.
2012-02-06T01:16:19Z
New York Giants tight end Travis Beckum has been knocked out of the Super Bowl game with a right knee injury.
2012-02-06T03:46:52Z
Mario Manningham is no longer the New York Giants' forgotten receiver.
2012-02-06T03:42:01Z
Eli Manning is elite, for sure. A king of comebacks, too. And far, far more than Peyton's little brother now.
2012-02-06T02:37:59Z
New York Giants tight ends Travis Beckum and Jake Ballard each injured knees in the Super Bowl.
2012-02-06T02:59:29Z
Eli Manning and the New York Giants are Super Bowl champions again.
2012-02-06T03:55:07Z
Tom Brady's two long incompletions in the final minutes, and several missed chances throughout the game cost the New England Patriots a chance at another Super Bowl victory.
2012-02-06T02:55:22Z
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Scoring summary from Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and New York Giants. The Giants won 21-17. 1st quarter 08:52 New York Giants safety. Penalty on Tom Brady, intentional grounding in own end zone. NY 2 NE 0 03:24 New York Giants touchdown. Victor Cruz, 2-yard pass from Eli Manning. Lawrence Tynes converted. NY 9 NE 0 - - - 2nd quarter 13:48 New England Patriots field goal. 29 yards, Stephen Gostkowski. NY 9 NE 3 00:08 New England Patriots touchdown. Danny Woodhead, 4-yard pass from Tom Brady. Stephen Gostkowski converted. ...
2012-02-06T03:46:52Z
Mario Manningham is no longer the New York Giants' forgotten receiver.
2012-02-05T23:35:03Z
Cycling teams at the Tour of Qatar welcomed the end of a U.S. federal investigation into Lance Armstrong, saying Sunday they were hopeful the seven-time Tour de France champion could finally move on with his life.
2012-02-06T02:50:39Z
but did they leave too much time on the clock for Tom Brady and the Patriots?
2012-02-06T02:44:22Z
Hey, David Tyree. Mario Manningham's got his own sensational Super Bowl highlight.
Back to the top Gaming 2012-02-03T16:44:58Z
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[More from Mashable: Nintendo Announces Online Gaming Network]
2012-02-03T13:16:49Z
The good old 8-bit band is getting back together. Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of Microsoft's Xbox, has assembled a super team of Atari's original programmers to form a game studio meant to re-revolutionize the gaming industry.
2012-02-04T18:11:00Z
Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement.
2012-02-02T16:19:27Z
Zynga, aiming to expand its advertising revenue without annoying users, is quietly experimenting with "reward advertising" on CityVille that lets players earn energy by interacting with a sponsor.
2012-02-02T22:47:25Z
Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted the stocks of many Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon. But analysts said the halo effect may fade, because some companies basking in Facebook's glow just aren't as financially sound as the world's largest social network.
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(Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive's third-quarter revenue missed Wall Street expectations after the video game maker sold fewer copies of its basketball video game, "NBA 2K12", than expected. Take-Two's revenue fell to $236.3 million compared with $334.3 million a year earlier and were below analysts' expectations of $249.16 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. The company reported net income of $14.1 million, or 16 cents a share compared with $40.86 million, or 45 cents per share a year ago. Adjusted for the deferral of digital revenue, the company's adjusted net income was $28. ...
2012-02-03T16:20:01Z
A look at results from selected companies in the video games business:
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Lots of interesting numbers emerged from Facebook's IPO filing Wednesday -- including that one client, game-maker Zynga, accounts for a full 12% of the company's revenue.
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After Facebook's initial public offering paper revealed that Zynga accounts for 12 percent of the social network's revenue, ZNGA has been on quite a bull run up at NASDAQ. After hovering around $10 per share since its own IPO in December, Zynga's stock graph takes a hockey stick-shaped turn the moment markets opened after Facebook's S-1 filing hit the Web. It kept running up and up until lunchtime on Friday when the stock price peaked at $14.35. ...
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Back to the top Tech News 2012-02-04T19:22:21Z
The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday's big game even started.
2012-02-05T17:14:02Z
We're back with our weekly top comments from the Mashable community.
2012-02-05T14:28:40Z
[More from Mashable: How to Follow Super Bowl 2012 With Social Media]
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2012-02-05T14:00:08Z
A new system combines the power of plants and photovoltaics to make solar power cheap and durable. David Biello reports
2012-02-03T23:31:28Z
Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.
2012-02-05T12:41:17Z
Even in the richest countries on the planet such as the United States, not everyone has easy access to this cornucopia of connectivity, the Internet.
2012-02-05T16:30:00Z
Take a break from Android-iPhone wars for a moment and focus on another battle smartphones vs. PCs.
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The halls of Britain's Supreme Court are becoming a bit more high-tech, as the highest court in the land joins Twitter.
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On Sunday night, millions of people will be watching Super Bowl 2012 on their televisions, while others might be watching it on their smartphones.
2012-02-05T20:28:01Z
(Reuters) - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday. TiVo, whose brand is synonymous with digital video recorders, has turned to litigation to generate revenue from licensing fees as the industry pioneer has struggled to fight competition from low-cost rivals in recent years. In January, it pocketed $215 million from AT&T to settle a patent infringement dispute. The settlement could bode well for TiVo's lawsuit with Verizon, which is centered around the same patents. ...
2012-02-05T21:51:00Z
When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
2012-02-05T15:28:36Z
Before, during or after the Super Bowl game, take a stab at turning Patriots coach Bill Belichick into a meme.
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So you've got a great job that's waiting to be filled at your company, and you decide you want to tap into the already measured power of social media recruiting. You start to wrestle with the big kahuna, LinkedIn, and you're also covering niche social media sites for your industry. But you may be ignoring an intensely powerful tool hiding right under your nose -- Facebook. The social media mega-site has proven successful for snapping up young professionals, but it can be a great resource for finding talent at any level.
2012-02-03T23:08:23Z
While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. … Continue reading
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Back to the top Animals & Pets 2012-01-13T02:45:00Z
Olivia Munn joins the list of celebrity advocates for PETA as she joins their "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign.
2012-02-03T14:20:09Z
It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land.
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2012-01-26T04:26:07Z
Fillet of dolphin? Polar bear steak? As world population increases, people in coastal poverty-stricken areas are turning to the ocean for their meals, consuming marine mammals such as dolphins and seals, new research suggests.
2012-01-23T23:22:19Z
A group of five captive dolphins in France have been recorded making whale-like noises late at night — despite the fact that they have only heard whale sounds as recordings during their daytime dolphin shows.
2012-01-27T18:55:00Z
Cats are, by some, much-maligned creatures and unfortunately they seem to get the blame for many dumb things that humans do. A southern Illinois man was arrested this week for a murder plot that involved a hot tub, a radio and a cat.
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We realize there's only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: The only adult puppet in the room is running for president, the 'Shit Girls Say' parody to end all 'Shit Girls Say' parodies, and The New York Times wants to improve your texting and walking skills. ...
2012-01-19T17:02:02Z
Killer whales and other ocean predators are targeting and killing the pups of a threatened northern sea lion species at an increasingly high rate, scientists warned this week.
2012-02-01T18:36:05Z
Between out-of-control fires and destructive invasive species, Australia is facing major environmental problems. Now, an Australian scientist says he has a radical solution to these issues: Import large animals, such as elephants, to consume flammable grasses and combat the feral animals that are reconstructing the ecosystem.
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Dog owners know that their pets are loyal and protective. An Australian family found out just how protective their family dog really was when the 18-month-old canine saved the family's two young daughters from a deadly snake.
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According to the Associated Press, the devastating drought in Texas this past year is threatening the survival of an endangered species. Only about 300 whooping cranes remain in the wild and use Texas as their wintering grounds. But the drought has made food and water scarce and so far scientists have discovered at least one crane that has died, eliciting alarm since it abnormal to see dead birds this early in the season.
2012-01-15T17:01:00Z
Sick People Smell Bad: Why Dogs Sniff Dogs, Humans Sniff Humans, and Dogs Sometimes Sniff Humans
2012-01-27T02:37:42Z
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Environmentalists sued the U.S. government on Thursday over naval training exercises off the West Coast involving sonar that they say harms endangered marine animals in the Pacific Ocean including killer whales. The lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service, the latest salvo in a long-running dispute, seeks to prevent the U.S. Navy from performing the exercises in "biologically critical areas" during key hunting and breeding times. ...
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2012-02-02T17:20:06Z
In these photos, you can witness the rescue of a young boy who fell 25 feet from a ski lift. The dramatic scene unfolded on Sunday afternoon at the Hidden Valley Ski & Snowboard Area in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The unnamed boy slipped from his ski lift chair and was caught by his father, who [...]
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Back in December, the tiny Spanish village of Sodeto collectively won a major stake in the annual $950 million Spanish national lottery. Today, the village of farmers and construction workers is enjoying a minimum payout of $130,000 per resident. And yet for all of the new wealth making its way around Sodeto, one villager came [...]
2012-02-03T18:51:02+00:00
Yesterday, the Susan B. Komen Foundation made national headlines with its controversial decision to pull funding for Planned Parenthood. And now, the foundation has just announced it is reversing its decision and will continue to fund breast cancer screenings with the group. To a lot of people this back and forth seems a little random [...]
2012-02-01T17:47:46Z
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Manneken-Pis, a bronze statue of a young boy urinating that is a symbol of Brussels and a major tourist attraction, has had to stop peeing because of sub-zero temperatures, Belgium's tourist office said on Wednesday. Officials turned off the flow of water through the statue, which has stood on a Brussels corner since the 1600s, out of concern the cold might damage its internal mechanism. Temperatures in the Belgian capital were set to fall to minus 10 Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) Wednesday night, far below the average minimum for February. ...
2012-01-31T16:31:38Z
In this video, we meet Wilbur and Teresa Faiss, America's longest-married couple. The Las Vegas residents were first wed in April, 1933. Wilbur, now 100-years-old, tells KVVU TV, "I just had no idea of us ever winning the longest-married couple." A group called the Worldwide Marriage Encounter certified the marriage as the nation's longest ongoing [...]
2012-02-01T17:12:09Z
McDonald's announced last week that, as of last August, is has stopped using ammonium hydroxide in the production of its hamburgers. MSNBC reports that the chemical, used in fertilizers, household cleaners and even homemade explosives, was also used to prepare McDonalds' hamburger meat. And while the announcement is making headlines, you may (or may not) [...]
2012-02-01T08:40:50Z
BEIJING (Reuters) - China began on Wednesday streaming live video footage of its pandas around the world via webcam in an attempt to boost awareness of conservation efforts for its beloved but endangered animal ambassadors. High-definition cameras are set to feature pandas in two reserves at the Bifengxia Panda Centre near Ya'an city in China's southwestern Sichuan province, the media non-profit Explore.org and China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda said in a statement. ...
2012-02-01T07:11:23Z
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned kindergartens in a northern province from offering palm-reading tests that the schools had claimed could predict toddlers' intelligence level and potential, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. Although many parents in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, eagerly brought their children to be tested, some later complained about the high cost and raised questions about the testing method, which test-givers said could reveal the children's aptitude in music, mathematics and languages. ...
2012-02-02T20:34:58Z
The FBI is investigating a government employee with top-security clearance whom they say stole thousands of classified documents. Even more interesting, the compulsion to steal the classified material is being attributed to a "hoarding" condition, rather than any threat of high-risk espionage. The Smoking Gun reports that when government employee Robert Harwin was arrested last [...]
2012-02-02T15:56:53Z
In politics, there is already the straw man, the paper tiger and the cookie cutter candidate. You can add "cardboard Khomeini" to that list of political phraseology after a very strange decision by Iran's military, in which they used a cardboard image of the late Ayatollah Khomeini to reenact his return after the Islamic revolution [...]
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In this video, a quintet of North Korean accordion players perform a cover of the 1985 ballad "Take on Me" from the pop group A-ha. Specifically, the young musicians are from the Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. The musicians are part of the multi-genre project "THE PROMISED LAND" by director and artist Morten Traavik, [...]
2012-02-01T07:38:29Z
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned kindergartens in a northern province from offering palm-reading tests that the schools had claimed could predict toddlers' intelligence level and potential, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. Although many parents in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, eagerly brought their children to be tested, some later complained about the high cost and raised questions about the testing method, which test-givers said could reveal the children's aptitude in music, mathematics and languages. ...
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Campaign finance documents show that Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown's re-election campaign has paid his daughter Ayla Brown $9,500 for performing at three campaign events. The three paid events, listed as payments to Ambient Entertainment LLC, go back to December 2010 and include a pair of Christmas parties. Ayla Brown is a former "American Idol" [...]
2012-01-31T18:26:37Z
A California man walking his two small dogs off-leash was arrested after a park ranger used her stun gun on him. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Gary Hesterberg was walking his two small dogs inside Rancho Corral de Tierra, which was recently incorporated into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. For years, the park [...]
2012-02-03T18:19:07Z
A new study conducted by the dating site Match.com found that self-described single, conservative Republicans are more likely to achieve orgasm during sex than partisans of any other political persuasion. Liberal Democrats were those least likely to experience fulfilling sexual intimacy, although they reportedly have more frequent sex than their conservative counterparts. The "Single in [...]
2012-02-03T16:02:28Z
In this video, Australia's Horsehead Ski Club sets the world record for most skiers behind a single boat. From the club's YouTube's page: To ensure the waters on Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, were calm enough for the record to take place, it was an early start at 7:20am. Of the 154 skiers who started out, nine [...]
2012-02-01T17:56:30Z
The U.S. Forest Service has decided that a statue of Jesus placed on federal land in Montana can stay there for at least 10 more years. "I understand the statue has been a long-standing object in the community since 1955, and I recognize that the statue is important to the community for its historical heritage [...]
2012-02-01T22:20:07Z
A member of Montana's state legislature says the Drug Enforcement Agency began investigating her over support for medical marijuana laws. State House Democrat Diane Sands tells the Missoulian she was contacted by a defense attorney with some unusual news: The attorney had been approached by the DEA who wanted to know whether Sands might be [...]
Back to the top Opinions 2012-02-03T13:56:00Z
It doesn't matter how hard NASA looks, says Mark Fischetti at Scientific American. Until it identifies another planet with plants, Earth remains stubbornly unique
2012-02-02T20:31:05Z
WASHINGTON -- As the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, enters its 50th year, one can rather easily trace the manner in which "globalization" -- the idea that totally open and unencumbered trade among nations -- was expected to save the world. Endless sessions on the theme entered the economic and political parlance and seemed to the elites and to the free thinkers to be the world's salvation.It used to be that globalization was an idea no person in his or her right mind would think of challenging. It was so good, so right; it was the moral answer to the globe's economic inequities. ...
2012-02-03T06:00:00Z
Doctors argue that sugar is a potentially deadly poison like alcohol and tobacco — and that we ought to treat it like one
2012-02-03T09:47:00Z
The passionately anti-"bankster" MSNBC host recommends authors who propose solutions for how Americans can improve their lives and nation
2012-02-03T17:10:00Z
As the Patriots and Giants gear up for a rematch of 2008's dramatic championship, sportswriters place their bets for Sunday's contest
2012-02-03T08:00:00Z
After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism.
2012-02-04T05:00:19Z
I once trudged many miles in a cold rain to raise thousands of dollars for Susan G. Komen for the Cure's fight against breast cancer. I won't do it again.I once stood in the blazing sun to cheer men, women and young children walking in support of breast cancer survivors and in memory of those claimed by the disease -- fundraising events sponsored by the Susan G. Komen foundation. I won't support them with my cheers or my checks again. ...
2012-02-03T13:31:00Z
Hundreds have died as a wave of cold air from Siberia pushes temperatures in many towns to their lowest point in a century
2012-02-03T10:22:00Z
Romney has the GOP nomination wrapped up — but his serial verbal miscues will haunt him in November
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Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney may seem like a sure bet in Nevada, but caucuses are difficult to poll and the Tea Party remains an X factor
2012-02-03T08:00:00Z
Horror of horrors! Lego has introduced a new line of gender-specific toys aimed at girls. I might not even have become aware of the controversy had it not been a topic of discussion on the all-female PBS talk show "To the Contrary," on which I frequently appear. That we are still debating the pros and cons of allowing boys and girls to prefer different play choices says a great deal about the failure of the feminist movement.
2012-02-03T16:44:00Z
A number of revelations are hidden among the data points in the social network's S-1 filing
2012-02-03T16:05:00Z
Caving to pressure, the cancer-fighting charity apologizes for defunding Planned Parenthood. But that doesn't mean Planned Parenthood will get its Komen grants
2012-02-03T08:00:00Z
Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran's an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out.
2012-02-03T09:36:00Z
On paper and on television, Mitt Romney looks like archetypal presidential material. Maybe that's why so many people don't like him
Back to the top Science 2012-02-04T23:52:04Z
Regardless of who wins Super Bowl XLVI, Forrest Lucas will walk away a winner. That's because for Lucas, an Indiana native, the Super Bowl festivities on Sunday (Feb. 5) will take place in Lucas Oil Stadium, named after the company he started with his second wife, Charlotte, just over 20 years ago.
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From the dark-matter web of the universe to the rainbow of a mouse's retina, a new trove of award-winning science images reveals little-seen worlds.
2012-02-01T16:06:14Z
Such work could one day allow scientists to eavesdrop on the internal monologues that run through our minds, or hear the imagined speech of those unable to speak.
2012-02-03T23:28:04Z
In 1931, the close approach of the asteroid Eros allowed professional astronomers to calculate its distance and make that era's most accurate measurement of the solar system. As the asteroid passes near Earth this week, amateur astronomers and students from around the world seek to recreate the historical experience.
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A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 million years, scientists report in a pair of studies Friday (Feb. 3).
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At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.
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Between out-of-control fires and destructive invasive species, Australia is facing major environmental problems. Now, an Australian scientist says he has a radical solution to these issues: Import large animals, such as elephants, to consume flammable grasses and combat the feral animals that are reconstructing the ecosystem.
2012-02-03T14:58:06Z
Last October more than 8.6 million Californians practiced the "Drop, Cover and Hold On" drill in the Great California ShakeOut. The exercise was designed to help residents prepare for the next "big one," a potential magnitude-7.8 earthquake along the southern San Andreas Fault.
2012-02-04T13:38:04Z
A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system.
2012-02-03T22:32:04Z
At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.
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A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star.
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NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
2012-02-02T19:14:03Z
A lot can be said in 140 characters but, according to new research, a quarter of people aren't paying attention to most of it. At least that is what researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology found in a study that examined whether people liked or disliked the 200 million tweets that are sent each day. According to the researchers, a quarter of tweets are rated as not worth reading.
2012-02-03T20:04:02Z
Jellyfish have become the subject of what resembles a modern myth, some say.
Back to the top Space & Astronomy 2012-02-02T12:34:05Z
NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who gained Internet fame as the first spaceflyer to send Twitter updates from space, is about to get another taste of stardom, this time on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory."
2012-02-04T13:38:04Z
A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system.
2012-02-03T15:04:06Z
An uncanny twin of our own Milky Way galaxy takes center stage in a new cosmic portrait by the Hubble Space Telescope unveiled today (Feb. 3).
2012-02-02T13:04:03Z
In 1991, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) issued a stamp depicting the now on-again, off-again planet Pluto with the inscription "Not Yet Explored." Now, the team behind NASA's first mission to the last planet wants to correct that record with a stamp of their own.
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In 1931, the close approach of the asteroid Eros allowed professional astronomers to calculate its distance and make that era's most accurate measurement of the solar system. As the asteroid passes near Earth this week, amateur astronomers and students from around the world seek to recreate the historical experience.
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NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
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A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star.
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Trace elements in stars may influence the evolution of habitable zones around them where life as we know it might dwell, scientists now find.
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NASA says it remains confident about the quality of Russian manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
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A botched pressure test of a Russian space capsule slated to launch the next crew to the International Space Station has forced NASA and its partners to delay the planned liftoff for more than a month.
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Iran launched a small Earth-observing satellite into orbit today (Feb. 3), marking the country's first successful mission since a failed attempt to put a monkey in space last year, according to state news reports.
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NASA may not have space shuttles to launch people into the final frontier anymore, but that hasn't stopped Americans from lining up in droves for the chance to join the agency's iconic astronaut corps during the latest recruitment drive.
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As most weather-minded people know, today (Feb. 2) is Groundhog Day.
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The spectacularly fast-whirling dead stars known as millisecond pulsars put the brakes on their spinning in large part by blasting pieces of themselves into space, a new model suggests.
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New experiments on the International Space Station may reveal tips on fighting fires in space, and back here on Earth, too.
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The first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station could happen in late March, NASA said on Thursday.
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The launch of the first privately built spaceship to the International Space Station is targeted for late March, but will most likely lift off in early April, a top NASA space station official said today (Feb. 2).
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NASA's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet – huge mosaics of many images stitched together at the highest-resolution yet obtained. But there's a bit of science mojo at work to create the stunning photos.
2012-02-02T23:11:13Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite a spate of Russian space accidents last year, NASA remains confident in its partner's ability to fly crew and cargo to the International Space Station, the program manager said on Thursday. The latest accident involved a Soyuz capsule being prepared to fly a new crew to the $100 billion orbiting research laboratory on March 29. The spacecraft was inadvertently over-pressurized during testing, rendering it unsuitable for flight. ...
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Newt Gingrich said Sunday he is plotting a Southern revival, while Rick Santorum and Ron Paul seek stronger showings in upcoming caucuses to slow front-runner Mitt Romney's momentum after his second straight victory in the Republican presidential race.
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Power is out and roads are blocked in Italy. In England, Heathrow Airport had to cancel half its flights. The cold snap that began in late January has killed dozens.
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Questions linger about the motivations of China and Russia, who vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resoultion on Syria.
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After world leaders decried the U.N. Security Council's failure to pass a resolution on Syria, reports of violence surged once again in the besieged country.
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Mitt Romney rolls to victory in convincing fashion while Newt Gingrich says he has no intention of pulling out of the race.
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Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week.
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With the UN Security Council sidelined due to vetoes by Russia and China, the Syrian crisis will remain a violent standoff, says Randa Slim.
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He may be a non-gambler, but Mitt Romney had a good night in Vegas. He left town as the night's big winner, capturing his second strong victory in a row.
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Forty-three people, including 19 Americans, face prosecution in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of illegal foreign funding as part of an ongoing crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, a prosecution spokesman said Sunday.
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Josh Powell and his two sons died in a blast at Powell's Washington home, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. Utah police previously had identified Powell as the lone "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell-Cox in 2009.
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Maine's new top fisheries official is vowing to grow the economic value of the state's oldest industry, commercial fishing, and the coastal communities that rely on the ocean.
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MUNICH (Reuters) - An Israeli raid on Iran's nuclear facilities would deliver a painful shock to the global economy, revive flagging Islamist militancy and possibly drag the United States into a regional war whether it backed its ally's attack or not. As if that prospect was not alarming enough, any doubts Tehran entertained about the wisdom of building a nuclear weapon would vanish the moment the strike occurred. These longstanding U.S. ...
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Mergers and acquisitions in the Middle East and North Africa rose slightly in 2011, but the combined value of deals fell by more than a quarter as slower economic growth weighed on prices, Ernst & Young said on Sunday. Deal values fell to $31.7 billion in 2011 compared to $44.1 billion a year earlier, but the number of deals rose 4 percent to 416 from 401 over the same period, a statement said. The United Arab Emirates took the lead with 49 deals followed by Saudi Arabia's 44. ...
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French and German leaders meet on Monday in Paris for annual talks in which they will seek further economic coordination in the crisis-hit European Union and discuss the escalating violence in Syria. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is openly backing President Nicolas Sarkozy in April's presidential election, will also give a joint interview with Sarkozy to French and German television networks in the evening. "The meeting will be dedicated to deepening Franco-German cooperation in all fields ... and notably fiscal convergence," the French presidency said in a statement. ...
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The head of the International Monetary Fund has hailed Saudi Arabia's role in supporting the world economy, following meetings with the country's king and top finance officials.
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Asian stock markets climbed Monday after U.S. unemployment fell to its lowest in three years, suggesting a stronger recovery in the world's No. 1 economy that could benefit the region's exporters.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French and German leaders meet on Monday in Paris for annual talks in which they will seek further economic coordination in the crisis-hit European Union and discuss the escalating violence in Syria. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is openly backing President Nicolas Sarkozy in April's presidential election, will also give a joint interview with Sarkozy to French and German television networks in the evening. "The meeting will be dedicated to deepening Franco-German cooperation in all fields ... and notably fiscal convergence," the French presidency said in a statement. ...
2012-02-04T22:17:05Z
Car buyers will likely pay more for new and used cars this year as the economy improves.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has sent a team of government officials and company executives to Libya to discuss post-war reconstruction and how to protect Chinese assets, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. The team, led by Wang Shenyang, head of the foreign investment and economic cooperation department of the Ministry of Commerce, will assess damage to Chinese assets in Libya and talk with Libyan officials about uncompleted projects, Xinhua said. ...
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S.E. Cupp and the Blaze panel sat down with Senator Jim DeMint during Thursday's "Real News From The Blaze" to discuss the 2012 election, particularly Romney's success with Tea Partiers in the Florida Primary. Of Romney, DeMint said, "he showed that he could stand tough" in Florida and "that's what made the difference in my mind.""I'm glad we dispelled this myth that Tea Partiers won't support Romney. ...
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An analysis by The Los Angeles Times has found that are 17 people or companies who gave more than $1 million to a super PAC last year, showing how just one wealthy individual can make a big impact on the election. A small handful of those donors gave in excess of $2 million, sometimes to more than one group or candidate.
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When Florida violated the Republican National Committee’s rules and moved its primary to Jan. 31, and made the contest winner take-all for delegates, its reasoning was pretty simple. Officials wanted the state to play a prominent role in the primary process. The state was penalized...
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Ads for Romney, Gingrich, and other candidates showing up on cable stations as apolitical as The Weather Channel tell us not only that, for whatever reasons, its viewers tend to be Republican, but that 2012's presidential campaigns are the most sophisticated yet. Reporting from Tampa, The New York Times' Jeremy W. Peters runs down how candidates are divvying up television airtime in Florida. ...
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"I really think 2012 is going to be the Twitter Election," Dick Costolo said on stage at AllThingsD's media conference in Laguna Nigel, Calif., Monday evening. It was an unusually confident declaration from a CEO who has hitherto appeared remarkably modest in his communications.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he’ll give Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax reform plan a fresh look now that the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO has endorsed his campaign for president.
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"an all-out blitz to get leaders of the movement to come out in support of Gingrich" 2012-02-02T21:00:10Z
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper may still be smarting from Canada's failed bid to ramp up oil exports to the United States, but his plan B could prove to be even tougher. Harper heads across the Pacific next week in a bid to convince China to satisfy its growing energy appetite with Canada's vast oil reserves. Though it appears a classic supply-demand match on the surface, the plan faces hurdles that range from how long it will take to build the pipeline to environmental dangers and questions about China's human rights record. ...
2012-02-03T01:28:24Z
LAS VEGAS – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is preparing to challenge the Republican Party of Florida after losing the Republican presidential primary there to Mitt Romney on Tuesday. The “winner-take-all” state had 50 delegates, all of which went to Romney, who won the state...
2012-02-03T14:25:13Z
By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) By accepting the endorsement of Donald Trump yesterday, Mitt Romney removed at least one threat of a third-party run that could have complicated his chances of beating President Obama in November. But in the short term, Romney...
2012-02-02T21:49:38Z
Mitt Romney is way ahead of Newt Gingrich in several of the states that vote this month, and Gingrich has lost his lead nationally, too, since he was beaten in the Florida primary. The numbers indicate the drama of the primary election is over, even if only a tiny fraction of delegates have been awarded. Here's our guide to today's polls and which ones matter.
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On Tuesday, the White House’s website highlighted President Barack Obama’s campaign trail support for the H-1B visa program. Just hours before, he had dismissed a woman’s worries about her husband and other American engineers losing jobs to foreign engineers allowed into the United States under H-1B.
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Whenever abortion becomes a heated political issue, you can be sure that religion is involved. The reverse also is true. Such is the case with the 2012 election season.
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News headlines, politicians, and hot-button issues come and go, but one 225-year-old document continues to emerge in our conversations about our nation’s most important questions and challenges: the Constitution.
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President Barack Obama says he deserves re-election, despite the nation's economic troubles.
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ABC ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd said that the debate this week over funding between the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood shows the “corrupt nature that’s happened in politics” is now impacting private groups. “This is a corrupt, poisonous part of democracy...
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In a new tell-all book, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” now-69-year-old Mimi Alford writes candidly about her eighteen-month affair with the former president, starting when she was a 19-year-old White House intern.
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Mitt Romney won Nevada's Republican caucuses on Saturday night, grabbing the largest chunk of the state's 28 delegates in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and racking up his second consecutive victory, after winning Florida in the same week. Speaking at his victory party at the Red Rocks Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, [...]
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Mitt Romney secured another primary victory of 2012 by winning the Nevada caucus. In delivering his victory speech, Romney vowed to make America greater once he is in the White House. The former governor of Massachusetts hardly mentioned his opponents while addressing supporters in a Las Vegas casino.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued the following response to the February 2 post on the White House blog.
2012-02-05T03:23:49Z
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney convincingly won the Nevada caucus Saturday, US media projected, solidifying his position as frontrunner in the race to be the party's 2012 presidential nomination.
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The White House on Friday announced it had received a letter believed to be from the Taliban leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Mohammed Omar. The letter seeks the release of Taliban prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This overt communication began when the Taliban requested to open a political office in Qatar for the purpose of engaging the Afghan government in peace negotiations.
2012-02-03T20:38:11Z
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan. The unusual message kicked off a debate within the administration about whether it was truly authored by the mysterious one-eyed preacher believed to be directing the Taliban from hiding in Pakistan -- and its meaning for U.S. efforts to forge a negotiated end to America's longest war. ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House received a letter last year purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, the reclusive leader of the Taliban, asking the United States to deliver militant prisoners whose transfer is now at the heart of the Obama administration's bid to broker peace in Afghanistan. The unusual message kicked off a debate within the administration about whether it was truly authored by the mysterious one-eyed preacher believed to be directing the Taliban from hiding in Pakistan -- and its meaning for U.S. efforts to forge a negotiated end to America's longest war. ...
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KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group's leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year. The White House received a letter in 2011 which purported to come directly from Mullah Omar, asking the United States to deliver prisoners whose transfer is now central to American efforts to broker peace in Afghanistan, an Obama administration official said Friday. "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan rejects this baseless rumor with the strongest of words," a statement on the Islamist group's website said, using the name by which the Taliban often calls itself. ...
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BROOKVILLE, N.Y., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Saundra Gumerove, Esq. (JERICHO), AHRC's Board of Directors Government Liaison and Chair of NYSARC, Inc.'s Governmental Affairs Committee, will join 150 leaders of The Arc from across the country to attend a White House Community Leaders Briefing on February 10th.
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Responding to an invitation from the White House Business Council and Business Forward, Warren Flicker, Chairman and CEO of the Homasote Company located in West Trenton, NJ went to Washington, DC on January 18th to participate in a White House Business Leaders Forum on Jobs and the Economy.West Trenton, NJ (PRWEB) February 04, 2012 I felt like “Mr. Flicker goes to Washington,” said Mr. Flicker, referencing the 1939 Jimmy Stewart classic movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Mr. Flicker joined 125 northeast U.S. ...
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Back to the top Health News 2012-02-03T20:10:38Z
A major US breast cancer foundation Friday reversed its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood after outcry over the move sparked a political and fundraising backlash by women's health advocates.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) --Breast-feeding is associated with improved lung function in school-age children, particularly those with asthmatic mothers, a new study says.
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LE ROY, New York (Reuters) - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe. Although the symptoms are typically associated with Tourette Syndrome, that has been ruled out in all but one case, causing fear and confusion among many residents of Le Roy, N.Y., about 50 miles east of Buffalo. ...
2012-02-05T06:48:34Z
Germany, holding up better than its eurozone partners in the current debt crisis, is battling the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "burnout" which it says is costing its economy billions of euros (dollars) each year.
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Conversion disorder made the headlines Friday as the New York State Health Department released its preliminary findings regarding 12 girls in LeRoy who have been diagnosed with the disorder beginning late last year. It was also announced the doctor treating the 12 cases had potentially identified at least four more in the last two days.
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SUNDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Although there is a stigma associated with having head lice, infestations with these small insects are common and nothing to be ashamed of, according to Dr. Hannah Chow-Johnson, a pediatrician at Loyola University Health System.
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Brain Injury Rate 7 Times Greater among U.S. Prisoners
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FRIDAY. Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The babies of women who develop an epidural-related fever while in labor are at greater risk of having problems right at birth, including poor muscle tone, breathing difficulties, low Apgar scores and seizures, a new study suggests.
2012-02-05T17:18:34Z
A nine-year-old girl is making what doctors described as a remarkable recovery Sunday, days after surgeons transplanted six of her organs in a groundbreaking medical procedure.
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COMMENTARY | In the wake of the Susan B Komen Planned Parenthood funding scandal, another charity has pledged significant funding to the abortion provider.
2012-02-05T03:00:08Z
A recent study shows that it's multiple blows to the head that lead to a concussion in football. Christie Nicholson reports
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A study published by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reverses some earlier thinking that breastfeeding by mothers with asthma might increase the child's risk for the disease. The study found breastfeeding strengthens children's lungs, even if the mother has asthma. Here are details about breastfeeding and lung health in children.
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The Obama administration's decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no matter their beliefs on contraception.
2012-02-04T21:52:00Z
COMMENTARY | An article posted by Time Magazine talks in-depth about a new push to regulate sugar in the health industry. New science initiatives want to label sugar a toxin and regulate it much like alcohol and tobacco. They call for legally restricting access for teens younger than 17 years old and targeted punitive taxation. Is this a reasonable decision to make regarding something that is considered a staple to our diet?
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SATURDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Winter weather can be challenging for some seniors, especially those with mobility or other health issues.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) --Areas in the United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease are pinpointed in a new map created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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SUNDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- More than 60 percent of American teens have at least one profile on a social networking site, and many spend more than two hours a day on social networking sites, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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(Reuters) - Elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more agile and independent than their peers over time, according to a Japanese study that covered thousands of people. Green tea contains antioxidant chemicals that may help ward off the cell damage that can lead to disease. Researchers have been studying green tea's effect on everything from cholesterol to the risk of certain cancers, with mixed results so far. ...
2012-02-04T11:50:06Z
The single most important step you can take for heart health starts with what you put on your plate.
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SATURDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- All the food and beverages served at Super Bowl parties can make it a challenging day for people who made a New Year's resolution to lose weight.
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Fixed mortgage rates rose slightly this week off their record lows. The year ends much like it began, with few people able to take advantage of the best rates in history.
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The average rate on the 30-year mortgage stayed hovered above the record low for a third straight week. But cheap mortgage rates have done little to boost home sales or refinancing.
2012-01-04T13:22:53Z
(Reuters) - Demand for loans to buy homes and refinance mortgages slid in the final week of 2011, even as mortgage rates dipped, an industry group said on Wednesday. Applications for U.S. home mortgages fell 4.1 percent in the week ended December 30, weighed down by a 9.6 percent drop in purchase loan requests and a 2.5 percent decline in refinancing requests, seasonally adjusted data from the Mortgage Bankers Association showed. Average 30-year conforming mortgage rates dipped to the year's low of 4.07 percent from 4.10 percent the prior week, and well below 4.82 percent at the end of 2010. ...
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This should be a great time to buy a first home. Prices have sunk to 2002 levels. Sellers are waiting anxiously as homes languish on the market. Mortgage rates are their lowest ever.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian housing starts climbed more than expected in December, fueled by low mortgage rates and a boom in condo construction, even as analysts predicted the once-hot sector would cool further in 2012. Housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 200,200 units from an upwardly revised 185,600 units a month earlier, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp said on Tuesday. The number of starts was well above the consensus expectation of 19 analysts polled by Reuters, who had called for 185,000 starts. ...
2012-01-12T15:42:56Z
Fixed mortgage rates fell once again to a record low, offering a great opportunity for those who can afford to buy or refinance homes. But few are able to take advantage of the historic rates.
2011-11-01T11:45:06Z
Chances are that your pension or 401k plan has never been audited. Do you find that fact disturbing? It should freak you out, in my opinion. According to regulators, seventy percent of the nation's pensions have never been unaudited. No one's checking annually to see if the money's really there.
2011-11-17T05:27:14Z
As part of her MoneyZen series, women and money expert Manisha Thakor highlights every day personal finance lessons that can be extracted from Jo Piazza's new book Celebrity, Inc.
2011-11-29T14:39:29Z
With each passing year, the former Oracle of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, is reminded that there really was a housing bubble and lowering interest rates to record lows just matters worse. Nearly four years after the housing market peak in 2007, record low mortgage rates are no match for falling [...]
2012-01-30T03:16:22Z
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese banks extended a total of 1.26 trillion yuan ($199.4 billion) in new loans to property developers and home buyers in 2011, down 38 percent from 2010, the central bank said in a statement on its website on Monday. Beijing has taken an array of measures to rein in the property market -- including raising mortgage rates and minimum down payments -- to ease public discontent with rocketing home prices, a process that has made it difficult for both home buyers and developers to get bank loans. Property loans accounted for 17. ...
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2011-11-29T14:39:29Z
With each passing year, the former Oracle of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, is reminded that there really was a housing bubble and lowering interest rates to record lows just made matters worse. Nearly four years after the housing market peak in 2007, record low mortgage rates are no match for [...]
2011-10-28T13:48:13Z
It’s hard to admit to yourself that the smarts and know-how you bring to your work or business doesn’t automatically carry over to your wallet or your 401k.
2011-12-06T15:48:23Z
Image by 401K via Flickr Most women wait until after the holidays to move forward with their divorces --and that’s completely understandable. Many don’t want to disrupt family traditions for their children. Some welcome the distraction offered by the hustle and bustle of the season. And, of course, others want to [...]
2011-12-29T15:49:59Z
Fixed mortgage rates rose slightly this week off their record lows. The year ends much like it began, with few people able to take advantage of the best rates in history.
Back to the top Stock Markets 2012-02-03T23:04:04Z
A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at the close of trading:
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A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading:
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Switzerland's biggest bank UBS AG reports fourth-quarter results before markets open in Zurich on Tuesday.
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A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading:
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Major companies tentatively scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week:
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A look at the 10 biggest volume decliners on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading:
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Here are highlights of recent quarterly earnings reports from selected Internet and media companies and what they say about the state of spending on advertising:
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Friday, propelling the Nasdaq index to an 11-year high, after January's U.S. employment report sailed past expectations, boosting hopes the world's largest economy has turned a corner. The broad-based gains also sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest in nearly five years. The S&P 500 extended its 2012 advance to about 7 percent. The U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to nearly a three-year low of 8.3 percent. ...
2012-02-03T23:04:12Z
A look at the 10 biggest percentage decliners on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading:
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Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy:
2012-02-03T23:32:31Z
(Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's core profit topped analysts' expectations for the fourth quarter, boosted by a rise in revenue from market data and technology, which helped offset a soft trading environment. Stock market volumes declined from the elevated levels of the prior quarter as volatility eased and investors moved to the sidelines. But the parent of the Nasdaq stock market has diversified its revenues through a number of small "bolt-on" acquisitions over the years, and has reaped the benefits. ...
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Shares of Genworth Financial Inc. soared more than 14 percent on Friday, after the insurance company reported a fourth-quarter profit that exceeded Wall Street forecasts.
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Shares of Estee Lauder Co. fell after the beauty products company issued a fiscal third-quarter earnings forecast well below Wall Street's expectations.
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A large retrospective exhibition of Andy Warhol's artwork will tour five Asian cities over the next three years.
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This year's winners of the top prizes in U.S. children's literature were honored for stories of resilience over the most everyday troubles: a boy grounded by his parents, a dog that loses its favorite toy.
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Police, colleagues say contemporary artist Mike Kelley found dead in his Los Angeles-area home
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A blindingly white room filled with a single wave of sound contrasts with a dark room that is pierced by a cone of light in the first German solo exhibition of Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda. Ikeda, known for his electronic sound compositions and audiovisual installations, created the works specifically for the two vast symmetrical upper halls of Berlin's contemporary art museum, the Hamburger Bahnhof. ...
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PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 22 (TheWrap.com) - One more chance. That's all that remains for the films hoping to throw a roadblock in the way of the inexorable march to the Oscar stage by "The Artist." When Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white silent film won the top award from the Producers Guild on Saturday night, it silenced the last nagging notion that the charming film might be too slight to win Oscar's Best Picture award. ...
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How does the Detroit Symphony Orchestra get to Carnegie Hall? Like everyone else — practice, practice, practice. But the Motor City musicians also added a little imagination.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Oscar nominee and SAG best actor winner Jean Dujardin is in the midst of a tempest over salacious French posters for a new movie in which he appears. Dujardin, who is nominated for Best Actor for "The Artist," appears in an upcoming French anthology called "Les Infideles," a sketch comedy about male infidelity from a number of directors. Dujardin directed one segment, and "The Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius directed another. But the controversy has sprung up not around the movie, it's over posters that went up on the streets of Paris this week. ...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - American street artist Mark Jenkins's human sculptures staged in provocative poses in the middle of cities have proved so uncannily life-like they have sparked calls from passersby to the ambulance service or the police. Dressed casually in a black baseball cap, baggy trousers and sneakers, the softly spoken Jenkins told Reuters he started his career by placing a figure in a refuse dump in Rio de Janeiro to draw attention to children living in the streets. ...
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Barcelona's renowned Liceu opera house says it must cancel shows and close its doors for two months because of the economic crisis hitting Spain.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Will 'The Artist' run into a "talkies" problem when it expands into twice as many U.S. theaters this weekend? According to reports out of England, some audience members at a movie theater in Liverpool didn't realize that "The Artist" was nearly silent -- and demanded a refund. The Weinstein Co. film, which won three Golden Globes this past Sunday, is black-and-white, and has virtually no dialogue. So far, it does not appear that Michel Hazanavicius' homage to the end of the silent era in Hollywood has run into the same problem in the U.S. ...
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A lawyer says the mother of the actress Phil Spector was convicted of killing has settled her wrongful death suit against the legendary music producer.
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Mike deGruy, an award-winning cinematographer who spent three decades making documentary films about the ocean, was killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia. He was 60.
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Mike deGruy, an award-winning cinematographer who spent three decades making documentary films about the ocean, was killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia. He was 60.
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Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - ABC ordered two comedy pilots Wednesday, one of them from country singer/actress Reba McEntire. The half-hour, multi-camera "Malibu Country" reunites McEntire with "Reba" executive producer Kevin Abbott, who is writing the project. The pilot will star McEntire as a woman who divorces her rock-star husband after he cheats on her and burns through most of her cash. Moving from Nashville to Malibu with her mother and three children, she attempts to revive her own singing career while keeping her kids from becoming spoiled by their new environment. ...
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 (TheWrap.com) - ABC has picked up the Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's pilot "The Smart One." DeGeneres -- who's been generating headlines this week after One Million Moms protested her spokesperson deal with JCPenney -- will executive-produce the half-hour, multi-camera project with Lauren Corrao. DeGeneres' wife De Rossi will star as "a brilliant and successful woman who begrudgingly goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister -- a former beauty queen, weather girl.and now big-city Mayor. ...
2012-02-03T21:30:39Z
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials score millions of hits online and rack up pre-game buzz. A teaser for Volkswagen's ad has drawn more than 11 million viewers on YouTube. The campaign features a pack of dogs barking out a "Star Wars" song, repeating a theme from the company's well-received ad during last year's Super Bowl. (http://link.reuters. ...
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Football fans looking for a sneak peek at "The Dark Knight Rises" or "The Amazing Spider-Man" on Sunday are in for a disappointment. The studios behind two of next summer's most anticipated superhero movies will not be shelling out the big bucks to advertise during the Super Bowl game. It is difficult to gauge the total number of movie ads that will air during this year's Super Bowl, but barring a massive last-minute spending spree, there will be less of a Hollywood presence than there was last year. ...
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 3 (TheWrap.com) - Good news, Samcro fanatics; "Sons of Anarchy" has been renewed for two seasons, guaranteeing a fifth and sixth season for FX's hit motorcycle-gang drama. The renewal comes as part of a new overall deal for "Sons" creator Kurt Sutter. Under the three-year pact with 20th Century Fox TV and FX Productions, Sutter will remain in control of the show, and will develop programs for both cable and networks. Though the renewal extends "Sons of Anarchy" to six seasons, the show is expected to run at least seven seasons. ...
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - "GasLand" director Josh Fox has been processed and released following his arrest at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Fox, who was charged with unlawful entry for trying to film a House Science Committee meeting on hydraulic fracturing -- aka "fracking" -- is due in court on the matter February 15. But just because Fox is a free man again, doesn't mean he's placated. Fox issued a scathing statement from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday following his release. ...
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LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - It may be time for Madison Avenue to reconsider all those car and beer ads run during the Super Bowl. Sports Business Daily crunched Nielsen Media data and found that the divide between the number of women who watch the big game vs. men is getting smaller. Last year, 54 percent of the roughly 111 million viewers who tuned in to watch the Packers and Steelers on Fox were men, compared to 46 percent women. ...
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