The murder rate has dropped significantly in such notoriously bloody cities as Detroit, Baltimore and Philadelphia, though the reasons remain murky.
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The Rev. Gregory Malia, a 43-year-old divorced father and an Episcopal priest, spends thousands on top-shelf liquors and generous tips to waitresses during his regular...
Posted by: seamusm | (9) Comments Last comment: 1/3/2009 4:50:43 PM by ademers1980
New polling and a trickle of stories from the battleground states suggest that Sen. Barack Obama's coalition includes one unlikely group: white voters with negative...
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The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.
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Tivon Coles he has been paying attention to webcams since the late 90s. The ones he likes are those you can control, turn this way and that and zoom in on points of interest.
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Find out which cell-phone service received highest marks in a recent survey.
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A teenager from Ireland has been given a new "million dollar chin" by surgeons in America.
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Doctors at some of the UK's busiest music festivals say a young patient's ability to use a mobile may be a good test of how ill they are.
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Scientists claim to have found a cure for 'werewolf syndrome', a condition which leaves the face and body of the sufferer covered in hair.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/27/2008 by manisha | (0)
Scientists now have manipulated people’s perceptions to make them think they have swapped bodies with another human or even a "humanoid body".
By: manisha | Updated: 12/6/2008 by manisha | (0)
An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/28/2008 by manisha | (0)
First it was the media’s fault. Now it’s the advertisers fault, at least according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of a 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker killed on Black Friday.
By: davepl | Updated: 12/4/2008 by seamusm | (3)
Researchers at MIT recently found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: why water doesn't soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what look like fingers of fluid flowing downward.
Paper can store a great deal of information. We have the paper transistor; we have the memory. We have everything we need to make this happen.”
By: manisha | Updated: 11/26/2008 by manisha | (0)
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A Welsh company has an answer for your battlefield waste disposal problems--a machine that turns mixed plastic trash into bullet- and fireproof armored panels.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/25/2008 by glendam | (1)
Chrome starts way faster than Firefox. Web pages load faster when you type in an address or click a link.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/25/2008 by manisha | (0)
Parents may disapprove of the amount of time their teenagers spend online but they are actually learning important social and technical skills.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/22/2008 by manisha | (0)
GPS map maker Navteq is teaming with its parent company Nokia to help drivers get more accurate information about traffic conditions.
A cat given up for lost in 1995 has come home.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/15/2008 by manisha | (0)
Using semen collected from a 35-36 year-old Southern white rhinoceros, frozen for 2 to 3 years and then thawed, a 30 year old female rhinoceros was artificially inseminated in two attempts.
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Google has developed a new tool which will provide health care officials and the general public with up-to-date flu activity estimates for all 50 states.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/13/2008 by (Guest) | (2)
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Falling oil prices have affected some Permian Basin drilling, but oil is easy to drill for here
By: ademers1980 | Updated: 11/9/2008 by ademers1980 | (5)
Researchers have created a "beauty machine" they say can turn a woman's photo into the likeness of a cover model with the push of a button.
By: manisha | Updated: 11/7/2008 by manisha | (0)