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Post-heart-attack angst can hurt your heart, German experts warn
Hamburg - A patient who receives an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICDs) after a heart attack...
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Indonesia’s Papua Province Considering Microchip Monitoring For HIV Patients
Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua province worked
to pass a bill that would require HIV/AIDS patients...
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Controversial Bill Will Enable Tracking HIV patients in Papua
A controversial bill that requires some HIV patients to be implanted with microchips has just...
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Study: Big Waist Could Mean Elevated Death Risk
Your weight doesn’t bother you very much because you think
it’s ok and because it seems to be just...
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Pollution to Blame for Asia's Growing Number of Sneezes
Hong Kong - It starts with a sneeze, a runny nose and a cough. You think it's a cold but when the...
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LA Restaurants Required to Display Calories on Menus
The Los Angels City Council voted to draft
a law that would require large chain restaurants in the...
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CDC: 2008 Has The Highest Measles Numbers In More Than A Decade
According to the numbers provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it seems...
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Eighteen Calif. Hospitals Fined for Jeopardizing Patients’ Lives
Eighteen California
hospitals were fined for placing patients in serious jeopardy, the...
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LA May Follow NY, Forcing Restaurants To Display Calorie Info On Menus
It seems that Los Angeles may possibly follow in the footsteps of New
York, as a law that will...
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July 1 – The Day All New York Restaurants Become Trans Fat-Free
Beginning with the first day of July, all New York City restaurants and eateries must...
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Bay Area’s Air Is Getting Better
On Friday, a health advisory was issued with regard to Santa Clara Valley’s air quality. The public...
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Pollution Leads to Nearly 24,000 Deaths in California Yearly
Nearly 24,000 Californians die prematurely because exposure
to pollution for a long time,...
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California: Thirteen Hospitals Fined over Risking People’s Lives
California Department of Public Health fined or sent
citations to thirteen hospitals for...
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1,200 People Rinstated With Medical Insurance
Kaiser Permanente and Health Net agreed to return the medical coverage to nearly 1,200 Californians...
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Controversy Shrouds Aust. Doctor’s Proposal to Pay for Kidneys
An Australian doctor’s proposal that the government should
offer up to $47,000 for kidneys to...
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Last Year Brought More Cases of HIV Infections in Singapore
The number of HIV cases in Singapore hit a record in 2007 with
422 new infections recorded, the...
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Former USA Today Reporter Has to Pay No Fine until Appeal Is Over
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit on Tuesday blocked fines up to...
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NYC Insists Calorie Content Be Included on Fast-Food Menus
New York City officials have decided to press fast-food chains into specifying on the menu the...
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Sinai Responsible for Quaid Babies' Overdose, Say Officials
California authorities have investigated the November incident in which Dennis Quaid’s...
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Minnesota to Ban Mercury from Cosmetics
The state of Minnesota
is the first to introduce a ban on mercury as an ingredient in...
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Rhode Island Hospital Fined for Wrong-Side Surgery
The state Department of Health amended the Rhode Island Hospital
with a $50,000 fine on Monday for...
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Health Authorities Turn to Topps' Plant for Clues in E. Coli Scare
Topps Meat Company issued a voluntary recall Tuesday of about 330,000 pounds of frozen ground beef...
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Frozen Burgers Recalled due to E. Coli Fears
New Jersey-based Topps Meat Company is recalling some 330,000 pounds of beef in 10 different...
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Technology
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MySpace Verdict And Social Networks' Responsibility
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Palin Hacker, A Tennessee Democrat’s Son, Indicted
These last few weeks, it has been rumored that someone, somewhere, somehow managed to hack Sarah...
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Government Employee Struck By Curiosity
“Idle curiosity” was the end of Lawrence C. Yontz’s 20-year
career in the government. A former...
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Canon Unveils 1.5-Megapixel EOS 50D Camera For Enthusiast Photographers
This week, Canon came up with a new solution for advanced
amateur photographers, amid increasing...
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Private Space Travel with SpaceShipTwo
A two-fuselage airplane was revealed on Monday for a small group of reporters and invited guests at...
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Firefox 3 Passes 8 Million Downloads, Will Grab Market Share
I guess even the makers of Firefox 3 are surprised and
thrilled by what is happening. Their...
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Carnegie Mellon Showcases Virtual Touch Technology
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have developed a device which...
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European Commission: Microsoft Must Pay Total Fines of $2.5B
The EU competition regulator has ordered a record 899 million euros fine, or $1.35 billion, against...
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Gates Speaks about Vista at CES 2008
Speaking at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft...
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New Jersey Limits Internet Access for Some Sex Offenders
New Jersey Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey signed a bill on
Thursday forbidding Internet access to...
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Yahoo China held liable for copyright infringement
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) hailed a recent Chinese court...
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Former Microsoft Manager Faces Prison for Billing Fraud
Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former Microsoft program manager
for MSDN faces charges on 18 felony...
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LA Botnet Hacker Reaches Guilty Plea Deal
Los Angeles hacker John Schiefer agreed to plead guilty to fraud and illegal wiretap charges...
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NASA Backtracks on Withholding Information on Air Safety
NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin says in a statement that he regrets the way information on...
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Canon Outsmarts Competition with EOS 40D
Photography just got better: Canon has finally announced the new EOS 40D, a technical masterpiece...
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Western Digital Unveils Energy Efficient HDDs
Hard drive producer Western Digital has recently unveiled a new class of energy efficient hard...
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Windows Home Server Almost Ready for Prime Time
Announced back in January at Consumer Electronics Show, Windows Home Server is ready to make its...
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World
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Icelanders In Shock After Financial Crisis
Reykjavik/Dieburg - Karlheinz Bellmann went to Iceland to find out what had happened to his...
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India gears up for ban on smoking in public places
New Delhi - An estimated 120 million smokers in India will have one more reason to try to kick...
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Indonesia finds 12 food products containing melamine
Jakarta - Indonesia's
Food and Drug Monitoring Agency has confirmed melamine had been detected in...
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British art gallery taken to court over "Jesus with erection"
London - An art gallery in Britain which exhibited a statue of Jesus Christ with an erection was...
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Sexual-Abuse Scandal Rocks the US District Court. Federal Judge Indicted
After the sexual abuse scandal related to the
events at the religious compound of the...
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Denver: A walkable city amidst political fanfare
Denver, Colorado - The big surprise about sprawling Denver is the 2-kilometre-long pedestrian zone...
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Inmate Charged with Fake Letter Attack on McCain Campaign Office
A jail inmate, Marc Harold Ramsey, 39, has been charged for sending a threatening letter laced with...
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Dolly Shows Its Tropical Storm Like Fangs in Texas
Hurricane Dolly made its way into South Texas and northern Mexico on Wednesday, flooding the Rio...
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FCC’s Fine for CBS in the Janet Jackson/Super Bowl Case Was Too Much
More than four years have passed since Janet Jackson accidentally exposed one of her breasts during...
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World Youth Day Celebrations Started in Sydney
The event the Roman Catholic Church characterized as the biggest
assembly of young people on the...
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Oregon Man Flies His Balloon Powered Chair Out of State
A 48-year-old gas station owner from Bend, Oregon triumphed Saturday on his third attempt in making...
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Minneapolis: 19-Year-Old Student Charged with Offering His Vote on eBay
eBay- the “land” of all possibilities. No wonder its slogan
is “Whatever it is, you can get it on...
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Software Engineer Gets 2 Years in Jail for Espionage
A software engineer who had worked in the Silicon Valley will spend the next two years in prison....
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Santa Clara: Time to Count Calories
In its fight against obesity, Santa Clara County will have,
from September 1, a new law that will...
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Have You Mown Your Lawn Recently?
If you live in Canton,
Ohio you should seriously take a
look at your lawn to see if it is...
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American Airlines Cancels 500 Flights, More Will Follow
American Airlines announced it was canceling as much as 500 flights on Tuesday for more maintenance...
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More Flights Cancelled by Delta and American Airlines
Tens of thousands of passengers were upset Thursday when
American and Delta Air Lines...
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Libby, Cheney’s Former Aide, Disbarred in Washington
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, was barred from...
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Justice Department: Pilot’s Lacunose Maneuvers Caused Oil Spill
The pilot of the container ship
Cosco Busan that struck a Bay Bridge tower and caused a...
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Ex-Chief Of Staff Of Alaska Gov Pleads Guilty To Fraud
On Monday the chief of staff for former Alaska Gov. Frank
Murkowski pleaded guilty to fraud in a...
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12 Years For The Contractor Who Bribed Congressman
On Tuesday a former military contractor received 12 years in
federal prison for offering bribe to...
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Suspect Arrested For Making Over 30,000 Prank 911 Calls
Police made an unusual arrest on
Wednesday night, after tracking down a 911 emergency line...
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Man In Jail Threats With Toxins Federal Building
A man from Agawam who was
detained for a charge of federal firearms has been accused of...
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Ex-Wife of French President Sarkozy Loses Case to Ban Book
Friday the court reached a decision and rejected Nicolas
Sarkozy’s ex-wife, Cécilia, request to...
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Peru’s Ex-President Fujimori Gets 6 Years for Abuse of Power
The former Peruvian President, Alberto Fujimori, has been
convicted Tuesday, to six years in...
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NY City Councilman Proposes $1,000 Fine for Feeding Pigeons
New York Council Member Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat
proposed a $1,000 fine for feeding...
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Girl with 8 Limbs Operated
On Tuesday doctors in Bangalore
began to operate a 2-year-old girl that was borne with four...
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Prince Harry Questioned by Police for Shooting Rare Birds
British police are investigating the illegal killing of two rare birds on the Queen's royal country...
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Bush Commutes Libby’s Prison Term
US President George W. Bush spared Lewis Libby, former chief of staff to the vice president, of a...
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Specials
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MySpace Suicide Brings New Legal Twist
The tragedy involving the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier because of cyberbullying brought on by...
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Mother Cleared Of Felony In MySpace Suicide Case
A Missouri woman who posed as a 16-year-old boy on MySpace, flirted and afterwards rejected a...
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People With AIDS In Indonesia Face Microchip Monitoring
People living with AIDS in Papua, Indonesia
may soon have a microchip implanted into their bodies...
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Wine lovers defy recession to pay up to 40,000 dollars a bottle
Hong Kong - Wine lovers from across Asia showed their love for a fine vintage is recession-proof...
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Large Waist Equals Elevated Death Risk
Your weight doesn’t bother you very much because you think
it’s ok and because it seems to be just...
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Supreme Court To Rule On FCC’s Ban On “Fleeting Expletives”
Tuesday, a
case concerning indecent speech during radio and television broadcasts was
heard by...
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Supreme Court Hears Case about Dirty Talk on TV
Tuesday, the
Supreme Court heard a case concerning the use of indecent speech on live
television...
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John McCain’s Outer-Campaign Stop On “SNL.” Successful Or Not?
With three days to go before the long awaited elections and
polls offering a not very refreshing...
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Hacker Indicted
The 20-year-old hacker, David Kernell from Knoxville has
been indicted for cracking the email...
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David Kernell Indicted For Accessing Sarah Palin's E-mail
The 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state
representative Mike Kernell was indicted for...
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Tennessee Student Indicted In Palin’s E-mail Hacking Case
Tuesday, a
federal grand jury in Knoxville
indicted David Kernell of Knoxville, Tennessee,
for...
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Hacker of Palin’s E-Mail Account, David Kernell, Indicted
David Kernell, the 20-year-old Tennessee college student who hacked U.S. vice presidential...
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Jammie Thomas Gets A Mistrial And Hopes For A Better Decision
The case of Jammie Thomas, the woman found guilty and
ordered to pay a $220,000 fine, takes a new...
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U.S. State Department Employee Pleads Guilty
Being accused of illegally accessing close to 200
confidential passport files of several...
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