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Democrats Promise to Send Health Plan to Obama
Congressional leaders voiced optimism after meeting with President Obama to plot strategy on health care legislation and to consider a new proposal from Senator Max Baucus.
Selling Data on What Kids Say
Parental Control Software Company Collecting Children's Chat Info and Selling to Other Firms for Marketing Purposes
She's going back to school but can she read?
Five million students will return to Canadian schools this month. If nothing changes at least a million will fail to graduate high school...
Center Tries to Treat Web Addicts
A residential treatment center in Fall City, Wash., offers a 45-day program intended to help people wean themselves from pathological computer use.
Tick-Borne Illnesses Have Nantucket Considering Some Deer-Based Solutions
A committee on the island is looking at options including trimming brush in backyards and installing feeders that coat deer with insecticide. Most controversial is whether to allow more deer...
Hands-on with The Beatles: Rock Band
CNET Reviewers Get a Chance to Strap on Plastic Guitar and Jam Along with Biggest Act in Pop History
Economists Measure GDP Growth From Outer Space
Measurements of economic growth often fall short for developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, and are rarely calculated at all for cities throughout the world. In a new paper, three...
Health Experts Offer Action Steps Local Governments Can Use To Cut Childhood Obesity Rates
Zoning restrictions on fast-food restaurants near schools and playgrounds, community policing to improve safety around public recreational sites, requirements that publicly run after-school programs limit video game and TV time,...
Addison's in Dogs: are veterinarians "stupid" for giving dogs Canine Addison's disease medications?
Have you seen this site selling natural dog food ideas for Addison's owners? Disease Breakthoughs. Half way down the page there's a cartoon about "free samples" running the drug industry,...
Fla. boaters told to look out for AWOL robot
Scientists on Florida's Gulf Coast are trying to find an underwater robot that has mysteriously vanished.
Portuguese award goes to Helen Keller nonprofit
(AP) -- The Helen Keller International nonprofit organization has won a $1.4 million prize from a Portuguese foundation for its work in preventing blindness in the developing world, the...
For Your Health, Froot Loops
A seal meant to flag healthier food has been granted to the likes of Froot Loops and full-fat mayonnaise, alarming nutritionists.
Environmental effects of cold-climate strawberry farming
BELTSVILLE, MD -- Strawberries are America's fifth-favorite fruit, according to consumption rates. California and Florida grow more than 95% of the nation's strawberries; an additional 12,000 acres are planted in...
Bottled washes to clean food? Water's fine
There's little evidence so far that the washes make food any safer. ...
Getting prescription discounts with LARx
On Aug. 31, the city of Los Angeles introduced a discount card that offers 5% to 42% off on virtually all prescription drugs. Using the card could get you a...
NY researchers give ladybugs a birds-and-bees talk
(AP) -- A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in...
Squid Culinary Popularity
Proving myself wrong in record time (see comments on my first post, where I claimed I wouldn't be discussing squid recipes), today's squid is served with chiles, lime, and herbs. Why? The...
Hartford Courant competitors seethe over Web site
(AP) -- After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news - its competition -...
Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic...
Bids open for rural broadband service
The Canadian government has opened bidding on contracts to bring high-speed internet to underserved and rural communities.
LG Releases New Chocolate Model (LG-BL40)
LG Electronics today announced the worldwide retail release of the highly anticipated new Chocolate (LG-BL40). The stunning fourth handset of the Black Label Series will be available in Europe from...
Observatory: Google’s Internet Techniques Inspire Studies of Food Webs
The Internet is not the only web around. In ecology, for instance, there are food webs — the often complex networks of who eats whom.
The right honourable computer, barrister-at-law
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement for European law,...
Authorities clamp down on Reach violations
National agencies issue warnings to firms breaching Reach chemical regulations in signs of tough approach to compliance
Watermelon's hidden killer
Watermelon vine decline (WVD) is a new and emerging disease that has created devastating economic losses for watermelon producers in Florida. Caused by the whitefly-transmitted squash vein yellowing virus (SqVYV),...
Not all Charlottetown buses wheelchair accessible
The head of a group representing Islanders with disabilities says city buses are still not all wheelchair accessible.
Midwives delayed by missed deadlines
The Department of Health's commitment to have eight publicly funded midwives working in New Brunswick has fallen a year behind schedule because the government has missed many of its own...
Survey: Most drivers support regulation of cell phones in cars
A new study by Nationwide Insurance found that U.S. drivers are largely in favor of laws that would restrict the use of cell phones -- for texting, e-mail, and talking...