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Swine flu case reported at World Bank in Washington
Washington - The swine flu outbreak may have spread to the US capital, after the World Bank...
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Sprout Recall in 11 US States over Listeria Concerns
Connecticut-based Amalgamated Produce Inc. announced Wednesday that it is voluntarily recalling...
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Stents Better than Bypass Surgery at Relieving Pain
A new study presented Saturday at the American College of Cardiology conference in Orlando,...
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Three out of Four Emergency Response Recruits Is either Overweight or Obese
A study by researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Harvard...
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Religious Cancer Patients More Likely to Get Aggressive End-of-Life Care
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association notes that religious...
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HIV - Among the Greatest Battles In The History of Humanity
A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature confirms the fact that the battle against the HIV...
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Lack of Sunshine Vitamin May Trigger Colds
Lack of sunshine vitamin may trigger colds, according to a study published this week in the...
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Multnomah County Chain Restaurants Required to List Calories on Their Menus
Multnomah County (Oregon) commissioners have approved a new set of rules that will require chain...
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Gel against HIV Infection Found Effective
Researchers present at the Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections held in Montreal...
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Tests of Anti-HIV Gel Show Promise in AIDS Fight
An experimental gel that uses a popular anti-HIV drug to protect women from the deadly virus has...
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FDA Clears First Drug from Genetically Engineered Animals
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cleared the first medicine made from...
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$100 million Gift for AIDS Institute
AIDS researchers hailed a $100 million gift from a Cambridge technology magnate that will create an...
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Can Animal Eggs Be Used to Create Embryonic Stem Cells?
A new study shows that animal eggs are not capable of reprogramming human DNA in the right way to...
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Stem Cell Research Moves Forward
As President Barack Obama is expected to lift federal restrictions on the field of stem cell...
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Genes May Give You A Hint On Your Popularity
Have you ever wondered what makes you popular or not? Apparently, the genes you inherited from...
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Strange Deaths Among Bats
A lethal condition that has been killing bats in New York for two years has spread into New Jersey...
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Mysterious Disease Kills Bats in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
A mysterious fatal disease that has killed bats in New England has spread to New Jersey and...
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Recent Studies Should Discourage Smokers
Recent studies show quite some interesting things about smokers and smoking. A West Virginia...
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Smoking Bans, Anti-smoking Efforts Are Not Enough To Cut Tobacco Deaths
Despite the states’ increased effort to fight smoking, the rate of tobacco-related...
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Seven States Sue Over Bush Anti-Abortion Rule
Thursday, seven states sued the federal government over a rule that further expands...
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Groups, States File Suit against U.S. Government on Abortion Rule
Seven states and two abortion rights groups filed suit against the...
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Lawsuits Filed Over Abortion Rule
Seven states and two abortion rights groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S....
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Peanut Butter Finally Linked To Salmonella Outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed yesterday a link between peanut...
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Health Groups Dissatisfied with U.S. Tobacco Control Policies
The annual report on U.S. tobacco control efforts released by the American Lung Association gave...
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Peanut Butter Distributor Recalls Salmonella-Tainted Products
King Nut Companies of Solon, Ohio, recalled the brand of peanut butter that tested positive for...
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Peanut Butter Could Be The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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FDA Advisory Committee Backs Drug From Engineered Goat
An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Friday the approval of...
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Health Officials In Minnesota Think Peanut Butter Started Salmonella Outbreak
Even if federal officials have yet to establish the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has...
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Mississippi Had The Highest Teen Birth Rate In 2006, CDC Says
New statistics released Wednesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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An Early C-Section Is Definitely Not The Best Choice
According to a new study, early elective cesarean sections pose serious risks to newborns. The...
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U.S.
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US swine flu cases increase to 642, likely to spread
Washington - The number of people sickened by swine influenza in the United States increased to 642...
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Vermont legislature votes to make same-sex marriage legal
Washington - The legislature of the US state of Vermont on Tuesday voted to make same-sex marriage...
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Iowa becomes third US state to allow same-sex marriage
Washington - The Midwestern state of Iowa became the third US state to allow same-sex...
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Gay Couples Protest before Marriage Bureaus Nationwide
Hundreds of gay couples, wearing signs that said “Just Not Married,” showed up today at...
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Senator Kennedy “Feeling Well” After Seizure during Lunch with President
U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, who suffered a seizure while attending a post-inaugural lunch with...
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Groups, States File Suit Against U.S. Government On Abortion Rule
Seven states and two abortion rights groups filed suit against the...
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Seven States Sue over Bush Anti-Abortion Rule
Thursday, seven states sued the federal government over a rule that further expands...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Health Officials In Minnesota: Peanut Butter Might Have Started Salmonella Outbreak
Even if federal officials have yet to establish the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has...
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5 Dem. Governors Propose $1Trillion in Federal Aid
Five Democratic Governors asked the federal government for a $1 trillion bailout package.
The...
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Winter Storm, ‘Hazardous’ Traveling Conditions Make Victims
A powerful winter storm hit the US West Coast painting all landscapes in white. The storm featured...
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Power Still Out in Northeast
New England was struck Thursday by a massive ice storm, leaving more than 300,000 homes and...
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Ice Storm Hits North Eastern U.S. Killing 4
A massive ice storm, the worst in the past ten years, has hit north-eastern United States leaving...
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Ice storms sweep northeast US; 1 million without power
Washington - A massive winter storm swept across northeastern US on Friday, covering several states...
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U.S. Students Get Better at Math
A study
released on Tuesday pointed out that American 4th and 8th
graders significantly improved...
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Ann Romney Defied Breast Cancer Due To Early Diagnosis
In a recent statement Ann Romney said she was undergoing her annual mammogram at Brigham and...
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Larry Summers - Obama's Chief Economic Advisor
Washington - Larry Summers, a former Treasury secretary and president of Harvard University, brings...
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Boston Student Wearing Headphones Hit by Green Line Trolley
Listening to your favorite tracks while walking on the street is really cool and energizing, but be...
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College and University Presidents among Highest Paid
According to a survey by the Chronicle
Higher Education released on Monday, a dozen presidents of...
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Clinton quiet about possible cabinet post
Washington - Former presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton has refused to...
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Hillary Clinton to Be Part of Obama’s Administration?
Recently,
the media has got wind of the rumor that Obama has met with Hillary Clinton in
order to...
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Reports: Hillary Clinton is possible secretary of state candidate
Washington - Senator Hillary Clinton's name has been mentioned as a possible candidate for...
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New Federal Rules for Banks Target Online Gambling
The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve finalized a set of rules on Wednesday that will put...
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US Voters Support Gay-Marriage Bans
San Francisco - Voters in Florida and Arizona on Tuesday backed amendments to their state...
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US Presidential Race Long, Costly
Washington - The 2008 presidential campaign has been one of the longest in US history, spanning...
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US candidates make final push; Chicago braces for 1 million
Chicago/Washington - US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain planned one final race...
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Abortion, Gay Marriage, Animal Rights on US Ballot Bids
San Francisco - Were they just to take their cues from television ads, voters in California might...
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Movies
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„Bride Wars” Opens Weeding Competiton
Liv, interpreted by Kate Hudson, and Emma, played by Anne Hathaway, are best friends since...
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Movie Review: Bride Wars
“Bride Wars” is designed to be a comedy, but with a too-spoken-about subject. Liv,...
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Brad Pitt Opposes Gay Marriage Ban, Donates Generously
Donations from the Jolie-Pitts are pouring this week: first,
$2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and...
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Woman Who Crashed into Sandra Bullock's Car in Court
The elderly Gloucester, Mass., woman who crashed Friday into a car carrying Sandra Bullock will...
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Three More Added To Scorsese’s Movie
The latest Martin Scorsese’s collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio,
“Shutter Island” will include...
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Two-Time Oscar Nominee Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Two-time Academy Award nominee, Roy Scheider, whom everyone remembers from his role as the fearless...
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Specials
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Nation's 11 Most-Endangered Structures, Places
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing today its list of the most endangered...
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GM, Segway Roll Out PUMA, Urban Electric Vehicle
Bankruptcy-threatened General Motors shook hands with scooter-maker Segway to produce a two-wheel,...
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GM, Segway to Launch PUMA, Vehicle for Urban Traffic
General Motors joined forces with scooter manufacturer Segway to produce a new type of two-seat...
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Court Rules Against Age Limit On Video Game Sales
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the law banning the sale or rental of violent video...
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Bayer Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Correct Misleading Information about Its Contraceptive
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has announced the decision to introduce a new advertising...
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Mass. Man Donates $100 M for AIDS Institute
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts General Hospital was donated $100 million to create an...
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Brandeis Decision To Close Art Museum Triggers Protests
Possibilities are being considered in an effort to stop the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University...
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Teen Pregnancy Rate on the Rise
The latest statistics released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that a...
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Mississippi Had the Highest Teen Birth Rate in 2006, CDC Says
New statistics released Wednesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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"Clash of Civilizations" author Samuel Huntington dies at 81
Washington - Influential political scientist and former Harvard professor Samuel Phillips...
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Low-Carb Diet Can Cause Memory Loss
A low-carb diet may be an inspired choice
when it comes to losing weight, but it could also...
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Ann Romney Defied Breast Cancer Due to Early Diagnosis
In a recent statement Ann Romney said she was undergoing her annual mammogram at Brigham and...
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Study: Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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Tony Award-Winning “Miracle Worker” Playwright Dies at 94
Tony Award-winning playwright and novelist William Gibson,
whose best known work, “The Miracle...
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William Gibson Has Died At Age 94
American playwright William Gibson died on Tuesday at age 94 this week in Massachusetts, a...
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Who Left a Piano in the Middle of the Woods, Police Wonder?
Authorities in Harwich, Massachusetts are currently
conducting a peculiar investigation, as they...
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Genetic Screening for Diabetes No More Useful than Traditional Methods
Genetic testing to see someone’s predisposition to type 2 diabetes
is not significantly better...
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No Significant Difference between Genetic Testing, Traditional Methods in Predicting Type 2 Diabetes
The results of genetic testing for Type 2
diabetes are not significantly better than an assessment...
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Blind Grandmother Threatened With Lien on Property Due to 1 Penny Debt
An old woman from Massachusetts was threatened with a lien on her home over a debt of 1 cent from...
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March Of Dimes Gives U.S. A “D” In Terms Of Premature Birth
In an assessment of premature births in each U.S. state, the
March of Dimes gave the nation a D on...
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Shocking Preterm Birth Rate In The United States
The rate of premature birth in the United States has reached an alarming 12,7 percent, although the...
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Gay Marriages Finally Allowed in Connecticut
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Oct. 10 that same-sex couples have the right to wed...
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If You Suffer From Any Kind Of Sexual Dysfunction, Do Something About It!
A study led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and published in the November issue...
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Sexual Problems Not A Bothering Issue For Most Women
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston discovered that almost five in ten women...
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Many Women Experience Sexual Problems But Aren’t Concerned About It
Men shouldn’t be so contented with their bedroom performance and convinced that they leave their...
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US Researchers ID 26 Genes Responsible For Lung Cancer
US
researchers have identified 26 genes that are frequently mutated in people who
develop...
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Study: Excessive Alcohol Intake Shrinks Your Brain
If you’re one of those people liking their daily shots of
alcohol, here is another good reason to...
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Paul Krugman Awarded 2008 Economics Nobel Prize
Today, October 13, Princeton University professor Paul Krugman was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize...
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Dennis The Manatee Dies Before Getting To Florida Sea World
On Sunday, a manatee that had been previously rescued from
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, waters died...
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Dennis - the Stranded Manatee - Dies before Reaching Home
Dennis, the stranded manatee rescued on Saturday morning from
Sesuit Harbor
near Dennis,...
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World
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Queen Elizabeth II to bestow honorary knighthood on Kennedy
Washington - Queen Elizabeth II has decided to bestow honorary knighthood on longtime US Senator...
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Same-Sex Marriage Allowed in Connecticut
Starting today, same-sex couples will be able to get married across Connecticut. An official order...
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Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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US State of Maine Issues Hurricane Watch Following Kyle Strengthening
A hurricane watch has been issued for the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New...
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Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy Treated For Mild Seizure
US Senator Edward Kennedy, who is undergoing treatment for
brain cancer, received hospital...
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McCain faces careful balancing act in running mate
Washington - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain faces a tough choice over whether to...
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Possible Kennedy surprise as Democrats open convention
Denver, Colorado - Edward Kennedy, the venerable Democratic Party stalwart who underwent surgery...
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Barack Obama Picks Former Critic Sen. Joe Biden as VP
Barack Obama picked Sen. Joseph Biden, the senior Democrat who is currently the Chairman of the...
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Reports: Obama picks Biden as vice president
Washington - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has chosen veteran Delaware Senator Joe...
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Harvard No.1 University Says Latest US News List
According to the new U.S. News & World Report college rankings, Harvard University is not only...
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Polls show McCain cutting into Obama's lead
Washington - John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, has dramatically sliced into...
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Boston Subway System Hackers From MIT Get Out Of Trouble
Three MIT students managed to hack into Boston's transit payment system (Charlie Ticket) and...
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Nebraska Beef In The Spotlight Once Again With Another Major Recall
One month after Nebraska Beef Ltd., one of the nation’s
largest meatpackers, was involved in a...
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Pakistani Al-Qaeda Collaborator Arrested after Shooting at U.S. Soldiers
A Pakistani neuroscientist who had been trained by the United States and is now suspected of...
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Columnist Robert Novak Retires Due to Cancer Diagnosis
Columnist Robert D. Novak announced his immediate retirement from his professional career following...
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Amber Alert in Massachusetts for 4 Children
An Amber alert is in effect in Massachusetts for 4 children who were apparently taken from an...
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"By the Time You Foreclose on My House, I'll be Dead” and She Did It!
A Massachusetts woman was so downhearted because of the imminent foreclosure of her home and her...
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2 Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers Found Dead in Iraq
The corpses of two American soldiers who had been kidnapped more than a year ago were found in...
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Coast Guard Searches For Quincy Resident
A 60-year-old Quincy
man was reported missing Tuesday night. The Coast Guard was searching for...
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Mandela Removed from US Terror Watch List
United States President George W. Bush signed a bill Tuesday to remove Nelson Mandela as well as...
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F.B.I. Arrests Hundreds in Child Prostitution Raids
The F.B.I. led a five day operation meant to discover child
prostitution networks and managed to...
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So-Called Pregnancy ‘Pact’ Questioned
A Massachusetts high school is facing the highest number of pregnancies ever with 17 girls...
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Massachusetts Governor’s Daughter Says She Is Lesbian
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s youngest daughter said she was a lesbian, but waited to tell her...
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Sen. Kennedy Returns Home After Brain Surgery
US Sen.
Edward Kennedy checked out of the Duke
University Medical
Center in Durham, North...
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Connecticut: Police Searching for Mental Hospital Patient
Connecticut police are
looking for a man who escaped from a psychiatric unit at the Connecticut...
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Senator Kennedy’s Surgery Went Well
Monday morning, Senator Edward Kennedy had brain surgery
in order to begin his treatment for his...
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Senator Kennedy Goes into Surgery
Monday morning, Senator Edward Kennedy was set to undergo
brain surgery in order to begin his...
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New York To Recognize Same-Sex Marriages
New York Gov. David Patterson, who has been recently hospitalized in a Manhattan clinic with...
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Rafting Accident in Maine Causes One Dead
Walter Cruz, 53, of Seakonk,
Massachusetts died Sunday afternoon
in a rafting...
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Reactions To Sen. Kennedy’s Malignant Brain Tumor Diagnosis
US Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been diagnosed with malignant brain tumor. According to his...
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Business
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Yahoo Steps Up Its Privacy Policy
Yahoo announced two days ago its decision to limit the time its archives will keep the information...
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The Gates Foundation Delivers On Its Projects
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced earlier today the kickoff of a $6.9 million...
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Whole Foods Market Announces Meat Recall Due To E.coli Outbreak
Whole Foods Market is recalling fresh
ground beef that was sold between June 2 and August 6 in...
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Verizon Is Setting Up Its New Expansion Strategy
Verizon Communications’ fiber-to-the-home network plan
proved to be an excellent business idea as...
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Microsoft Buys Navic To Enhance Interactive Advertising Presence
Microsoft announced the aquisiton of Navic, a Waltham, Massachusetts based TV advertising company....
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Google Health Brings First Insurer Aboard
On Thursday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts said
it would become the first health insurer...
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Avant Shares Soar on Release of Brain Cancer Vaccine
A newly released cancer vaccine which reportedly doubles the survival time of people with brain...
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Xobni Launches Cool Outlook Organizer
San Francisco-based email startup Xobni (inbox
spelled backwards) has launched its public beta...
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IBM Acquires Diligent Technologies
The Big Blue has bought Diligent Technologies, a privately
held storage "de-duplication"...
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Staples Inc. Announces Stable 4Q Results
The world's largest office supply retail store chain, Staples Inc., announced Tuesday fourth...
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EBay CEO Meg Whitman Planning to Retire
Meg Whitman, president and CEO of top Internet auctioneer eBay
Inc. is planning to retire,...
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IBM Buys Cognos for $5 Billion
IBM Corp. said yesterday that it agreed to buy Cognos Inc.
for nearly $5 billion, The Boston Globe...
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Six US States Requested An Extension of Microsoft Oversight
On Tuesday six US stated requested to a Washington court to extend the official...
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A New Acquisition For Microsoft: Parlano, A Group Chat Provider
Microsoft said it will acquire Parlano, a Chicago-based company
which produces MindAlign, an...
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People
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Renee Zellweger Puts Her Fat Suit On
Being picked as the winner for the Woman of the Year award at the annual Hasty Pudding Awards,...
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John Updike Never to be Forgotten
John Updike, the prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning author for fiction novels capturing the mood and...
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer John Updike Died at 76
John Updike filed the literature with poetry, novels, short stories and literary criticism works....
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The World Is Facing a Great Loss: John Updike
John Updike’s publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, announced that Updike, who lived in Beverly Farms,...
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Ann Romney, Fine After Surgery
Ann Romney, the wife of former governor Mitt Romney, has recently
announced that she has been...
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Gay Wanda Sykes Becomes An Inspiration For Gay African-American Youth
Making a surprise appearance at the gay rights rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, comedienne Wanda...
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Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66
Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
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There Is No Massachusetts Teen Pregnancy Pact
The whole Massachusetts teen pregnancy "pact" story was just media hype, it appears. The...
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Star Trek's Takei Enjoys Ca. Gay Wedding Ruling
George Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek series, the first six Star Trek...
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Patrick Swayze Doesn’t Let Cancer Stand In The Way Of His Career
Someone as multitalented as Patrick Swayze does not allow
anything to cut down his enthusiasm when...
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Sandra Bullock and Husband in Car Crash
Actress Sandra Bullock and her husband Jesse James were hit
by a drunk driver in Gloucester,
...
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One More Year of Electric Shock Treatment for Center Students
The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton has been
granted another year of applying...
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Julianna Margulies Marries
“ER” actress Julianna Margulies, who is expecting her first child, married last...
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Robert Goulet Passes Away at 73
Broadway actor Robert Goulet passed away Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, aged 73. He had been...
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Bridget Moynahan and Tom Brady Have Baby Boy
Actress Bridget Moynahan and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady have become parents to a...
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Technology
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MIT Researchers Develop Virus Batteries
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to turn the concept of a battery...
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Bill Gates Brings Broadband Internet to Public Libraries
On Friday, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they...
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HP To Offer Next-Generation Laptop Batteries
On Wednesday, Boston-Power announced that Hewlett-Packard
will offer a new type of battery which...
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Apple Shows Commitment To Offering iTunes Assistance For Blind
Apple will be addressing the needs of blind consumers, under
an agreement with the National...
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Major ISPs Make 'No User Tracking' Pledge
AT&T and Verizon, two of the largest U.S. internet
service providers, pledged yesterday at a...
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Web’s Founder Concerned with How to Improve its Creation
The man credited with creating the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is concerned with the fact that the...
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AT&T Fixes Data Outage in the Northeastern U.S.
This morning, AT&T customers in the Northeastern U.S. were unable to use the carrier's EDGE and...
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MIT Students Found Not Guilty
The three students from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology taken to court by the...
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The MIT Students Were Found Innocent
Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students
were allowed to talk freely about the...
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MIT Students Raise New Security Concerns
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority sent
out an e-mail to all of its employees, requesting...
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EFF to Fight Order Forcing Students to Cancel Subway Hacking Presentation
Three college students were ordered by a federal judge to
call off a presentation at a computer...
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Civil Rights Groups Criticize The New York Video Game Labeling Bill
New York Gov. David Peterson signed a new law on Tuesday
that will limiting video game content...
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Cheaper, Easier Way to Use Solar Power: Coming Soon
As found in the Friday issue of journal Science, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Verizon Unveils Fios Plans
Denny Strigl, Verizon’s chief operating officer, made some interesting announcements about its Fios...
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Malware Destroyed a Man’s Life
Michael Fiola had been an investigator at the Department of Industrial Accidents in Massachusetts...
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Stephen King: Videogames Reflect A Violence That Already Exists
Stephen King rejects the Massachusetts
bill according to which videogames that depict violence...
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Polaroid Could End Instant Photo Technology Era
Polaroid Corp., the company become famous for its instant cameras and photos, has decided to close...
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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Pass the Reigns March 31
Meg Whitman, president and CEO of top Internet auctioneer eBay
will step down in March, confirming...
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Meraki Builds San Francisco's Wi-Fi Network
Back in December 2005, San Francisco’s city government had issued an RFP (request for proposals) to...
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iRobot Wins, Robotic FX Must Die!
According to the company’s own statement,
it seems that the federal court of Alabama and the...
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165,000 Web Sites Offline Thanks to Failed Data Center Migration
About 165,000 web sites have been offline since Saturday because of a
failed data center migration...
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Verizon, Others Turned In Customer Data without Court Orders
Verizon acknowledged that it provided data on customers at the request of the government 720 times...
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Google and IBM Team Up For Cloud Computing For Universities
Following a December 2006 meeting at Google’s Mountain View
headquarters, Eric Schmidt and IBM’s...
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Adobe Acquires Virtual Ubiquity to Incorporate Buzzword
Adobe announced during this year’s MAX conference that it will acquire Waltham, Massachusetts...
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Check Out Your Favorite Candidates Live On MySpace
MySpace and MTV merged on Thursday in order to allow US presidency
candidates individually discuss...
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Sony to Start Recycling Its Old Products for Free
Sony has partnered with US company Waste Management to provide customers with an easy and cost-free...
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Science
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New batteries could run on a virus
New York - Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a prototype...
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FDA Clears First Drug From Genetically Engineered Animals
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday cleared the first medicine made from...
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New Drug From Genetically Engineered Goats May Be On Its Way
The Food and Drug Administration revealed Wednesday that for the first time an...
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Brain Swelling: The Cause Of Many Deaths On Mount Everest
Not avalanches, falling ice or lung problems seem to be the reasons for which many climbers on...
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American Students Gain in TIMSS Test
A recent international survey of student achievement
released on Tuesday, Trends in International...
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Study Says Happiness Is Contagious
A study
published Friday in the British journal BMJ, authored by Dr. Nicholas A.
Christakis, a...
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Coal-Based Plants Could Be In Trouble
An environmental review board has shot down the EPA approval of a new coal plant, stating that the...
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Answer For Lack Of Sexual Desire In Older Women: Testosterone Patch
Lack of sexual desire among women is not something new. Just
last week, a study by...
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Study Bashes Violent Video Games, Links Them to Aggressive Behavior in Kids
Despite their huge popularity among young and adult players,
video games continue to remain a...
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NASA Probe Reveals Traces Of Intense Volcanism From Mercury’s Past
Less than one month after MESSENGER conducted its second
flyby past our Solar System’s innermost...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry, Also With Three Winners
The Nobel Prize is a foundation that celebrates discoveries and excellence in a number of fields,...
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Update: Stem Cells Research Could Become Safer
Researchers took one more step toward so-called regenerative
medicine by developing a safer way of...
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Global Warming Equals Stronger Hurricane, New Study Concludes
A study conducted by a researcher from Florida
State University
has concluded that the theory...
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Mystery Behind Mars’s Lopsided Shape Revealed
The mystery behind the lopsided shape of Mars lies in its
Borealis basin, whose elliptical shape...
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Every Great Song Starts With A Babble, Even For Birds!
The first words of a baby are
almost always hard to make any sense of, and that behavior is not...
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Chaos Theory Scientist Edward Lorenz Dies At 90
On April 16, the world lost yet another
remarkable scientific figure that marked the 20th century...
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Scientists Find Safe, But Smelly Method For Suspended Animation
What is the latest discovery in
terms of “suspended animation” sustainers? Researchers concluded...
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Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Scientists at the Advanced Cell
Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced on Thursday that...
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Stem cell breakthrough promises “ethical” bio-replacements
No need to worry about the ethical implications of stem-cell research anymore: American scientists...
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Euro Lab to Launch 15 Years Late, AMS May Never Reach ISS
About 25 years in the making, Europe's Columbus space laboratory will finally be launched on a...
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NASA Brings Atlantis To Launch Pad
NASA made one more step toward its next space mission. On
Saturday morning the space shuttle...
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Dutch Scientist Predicts Humans Will Marry Robots By 2050
Maybe you remember the SF movie Blade Runner from 1982 with
Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer,...
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American Electric Power Settles with EPA for $4.6 Billion
The largest electricity generating utility in the United States, American Electric Power, as agreed...
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Largest Galaxy Collision to Create Super-Galactic Behemoth
Galaxy collisions are spectacular events whenever they are observed, but the collision astronomers...
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