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Adolescents with unpopular names more prone to committing crime
A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly examined the relationship between first name popularity in adolescents and tendency to commit crime. Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names ...
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Wanted: Censor for Pakistan's Internet
(AP) -- Pakistan is advertising for companies to install an Internet filtering system that could block up to 50 million Web addresses, alarming free speech activists who fear current censorship could become ...
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Hormone-blocking drug reduces breast cancer risk
(AP) -- Millions of women at higher-than-usual risk of breast cancer have a new option for preventing the disease. Pfizer Inc.'s Aromasin cut the risk of developing breast cancer by more than half, without the side effects ...
Jun 04, 2011 |
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Should the Internet have an 'off' switch?
A raging debate over new legislation, and its influence on the Internet, has tongues wagging and fingers pointing from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C.
Feb 21, 2011 |
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New drug-resistant superbugs found in 3 states
(AP) -- An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: A new gene that can turn many types of bacteria into superbugs resistant to nearly all antibiotics has sickened people in three states and is popping up all over the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Pakistan says 12 mln affected by floods
(AP) -- Stormy weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Friday as authorities said 12 million people had been affected and 650,000 houses destroyed in ...
Aug 06, 2010 |
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China seeks to reduce Internet users' anonymity
(AP) -- A leading Chinese Internet regulator has vowed to reduce anonymity in China's portion of cyberspace, calling for new rules to require people to use their real names when buying a mobile phone or going online, according ...
Jul 13, 2010 |
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From lab dishwasher to distinguished researcher
More than 25 years ago, Dianne Williams of Baltimore was hired by Carnegie's Department of Embryology to wash lab dishes as part of a city job program for inner city youth. Now as head technician and manager of a Drosophila resear ...
Apr 29, 2010 |
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The Athenians: Another warning from history?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson from the past, a new study suggests. ...
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Nero's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome
(AP) -- Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they think are the remains of Roman emperor Nero's extravagant banquet hall, a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 29, 2009 |
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New physics theory prize names first recipient
Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...
Sep 11, 2009 |
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