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<description><![CDATA[No matter how bad the economy gets, a lot of consumers will still fork over a couple hundred bucks for the latest smartphone.

That's the lesson we learned today from the folks over at market research firm IDC. In a new report, IDC says vendors worldwide shipped 43.3 million devices in ...


    
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<title>Droid launch party could be cut short by arrival of new iPhone</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Droid launch day is here, and it couldn't come soon enough. For weeks, we've been digging through the waves of buzz surrounding the Android 2.0 Droid – the iDon't commercials, the photo leaks, the Droid Eris, the official list of specs, a massive Droid launch event in New York City, ...


    
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<title>Jim Carrey&#x2019;s website: creepy - and cool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Seen "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"? "Man in the Moon"? How 'bout the previews for Tim Burton's take on "Alice in Wonderland"?

Jim Carrey starred in two of those three films (and we think he may've made a fine Mad Hatter over Johnny Depp) and knowing that, it's easy to ...


    
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<title>Which Sesame Street character should Google use tomorrow?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sesame Street has gotten some serious Google love this week. On Wednesday, Google swapped out its usual kindergarten-colored logo for Big Bird's happy feet, in honor of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary. (His foreign friends Chamki and Boombah smiled for the Google India homepage. Their clay cousins Wallace and Gromit spruced ...


    
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<title>Droid will allow tethering, Verizon says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After weeks of anticipation, Verizon is slated to officially release the Droid on Friday morning. The Droid smartphone, which is manufactured by Motorola and powered by Google’s Android 2.0 operating system, will retail for $199, with a two-year contract and a mail-in rebate. To celebrate the Droid release, Verizon is ...


    
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<title>Google Dashboard: Its unintended uses (and abuses)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Google announced Dashboard, a user's one-stop-shop for managing the information associated with their Google account. Cries of praise went up: "Yay for Google! Way to not be evil! Thanks for making it so easy to see all of this!"

But did the clever folks at Google (and they are ...


    
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<title>Verizon Droid Eris undercuts Motorola Droid on price</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, we're less than 24 hours away from the release of the Droid, the much-hyped smartphone built by the folks over at Motorola. And as we noted earlier this afternoon, Verizon has been saturating the airwaves with a commercial touting the Android-equipped Droid as the phone that could finally knock ...


    
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<title>New ad bills Verizon Droid as &#x2019;stealth&#x2019; tech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Update: Verizon Droid Eris undercuts Motorola Droid on price

Friday is the official release date of the Droid, a smartphone manufactured by Motorola and powered by Verizon Wireless. And Verizon isn't missing any chances to bombard potential consumers with news of the Droid. Beginning earlier this week, Verizon aired an advertisement ...


    
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<title>Goodbye, Honda Odyssey. Hello, Honda SkyDeck concept.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Don't get us wrong – in no way are we saying that you should ditch your sports car and invest in something more spacious. But hey, you could do worse than saving your pennies for the Honda SkyDeck, the six-seat hybrid minivan unveiled at last month's Tokyo Motor Show.

The SkyDeck ...


    
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<title>Microsoft layoffs hit again</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft will face another round of layoffs this week.

Just two weeks ago, the company's fortunes seemed hopeful. Microsoft said that its quarterly earnings beat analysts' expectations and its newest operating system, Windows 7, sprinted out of the gate. This drove up stock prices and lead to thoughts that maybe the ...


    
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<description><![CDATA[NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.
    
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<description><![CDATA[NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions.
    
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<title>Inspiration for &#x27;Contact&#x27; still listening</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From a remote valley in Northern California, Jill Tarter is listening to the universe.
    
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<title>Indian lunar orbiter hit by heat rise</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists have switched off several on-board instruments to halt rising temperatures inside India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft.
    
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<description><![CDATA[Hugh Pickens writes "Science Daily reports findings from a new study which suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, long before their first babble or coo, and are able to memorize sounds from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech (a.k.a. 'motherese'). 'The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during their fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation,' said Kathleen Wermke of the University of W&#252;rzburg in Germany. Wermke's team recorded and analyzed the cries of 60 healthy newborns, 30 born into French-speaking families and 30 born into German-speaking families, when they were three to five days old. The recordings of 2,500 cries as mothers changed babies' diapers, readied babies for feeding or otherwise interacted with the youngsters show an extremely early impact of native language, with analysis revealing clear differences in the shape of the newborns' cry melodies, based on their mother tongue."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<description><![CDATA[AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<description><![CDATA[Greg George writes "Researchers at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that they have found an enzyme that helps nerves to grow in areas damaged after trauma. In typical injuries, scar tissue forms around the damage point and the body removes the tissue so that new muscle and nerves can regrow in the damaged area. In spinal cord injuries, scar tissue forms and that is the end of the story. Special chemicals form that stop the body's cells from moving in and removing the scar tissue and then allowing the healing process to start. Studies have been done attempting to bypass the scar tissue, but none has been successful in large-scale repair of injured muscle and nerves in the spinal column. The researchers for this paper have found that sugar proteins near the damage point stop the healing and that an enzyme can be used to break down these proteins so that the body can then begin repairs. The enzyme, chondroitinase ABC (chABC), is sensitive to heat, and breaks down quickly in a human body. To stop that process they found that by replacing the ABC with another sugar called trehalose, they were able to stabilize the ABC, allowing it to break down scar tissue over a large area. The gel formed by these sugars is stable for up to six weeks in the bodies of test animals, allowing the research team to inject growth factors that increased the healing, to the point that the animals started to use their limbs again. The work is still in the beginning stages." Reuters reporting adds a few more details: "...many other approaches will be needed to repair spinal cord injuries in humans, including controlling inflammation, which can cause additional injury, stimulating nerve fiber growth, and getting nerves to reconnect and communicate with the brain."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CWmike writes "The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an effort this week to better and more easily track for H1N1 and other seasonal influenza activity throughout the US. The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients from physician practices and hospitals stored on a database hosted by GE Healthcare. The data is submitted daily from physicians' offices and hospitals that use GE's electronic medical record system. The data is then uploaded to GE Healthcare's Medical Quality Improvement Consortium, a database repository designed with HIPAA-compliance parameters of patient anonymity and best practices, where it can be the subject of medical data queries. The CDC can perform queries to look for flu-like symptoms being reported by physicians, and then disseminate the data for health care providers and local government officials throughout the country, who can alert businesses and others about flu outbreak hot spots. The CDC also hopes its analysis of the data helps it better understand the characteristics of H1N1 outbreaks and to determine who is most at risk for developing complications from the virus. Prior to implementing the new system, the CDC relied heavily on tracking insurance claims data, which could take days or weeks to make its way to the agency's medical staff for analysis. The medical data is normalized so that, for example, reports of hypertension, HTN, and high blood pressure all mean the same thing when a researcher enters a query against the data."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hugh Pickens writes "Evidence that the smell of fear is real was uncovered by US scientists last year who studied the underarm secretions of 20 terrified novice skydivers and found that people appear to respond unconsciously to the sweat smell of a frightened person. Now the Telegraph reports that researchers hope a 'fear detector' will make it possible to identify individuals at check points who are up to no good. 'The challenge lies in the characterization and identification of the specific chemical that gives away the signature of human fear, especially the fear in relation to criminal acts,' says Professor Tong Tun at City University London, who leads the team developing security sensor systems that can detect the human fear pheromone. The project will look at potential obstacles to the device, such as the effects of perfume and the variances in pheromone production and if the initial 18-month feasibility study is successful, the first detectors could be developed in the next two to three years. 'I do not see any particular reason why similar sensor techniques cannot be expanded to identify human smells by race, age or gender to build a profile of a criminal during or after an incident,' Tong added."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[TechRev_AL writes "A team from the University of Washington has attached an RFID chip capable of sensing neural activity to a live moth, to pick up the spikes that occur as it beats its wings. Most neural implants are still relatively bulky, but the Washington researchers wanted to show the components in an RFID could be adapted for the same purpose. The NeuralWISP chip is a collection of low-power components such as a specialized signal amplifier, on a circuit board just over two centimeters long. The circuitry converts usable power from the reader &mdash; roughly 430 microwatts &mdash; to a voltage that can turn on a microcontroller. The sensor is also configured to 'wake up' only when a neuron fires. The ultimate goal is to create more compact, wirelessly-powered brain and nervous system implants for people."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>LHC Shut Down Again &#x26;mdash; By Baguette-Dropping Bird</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Philip K Dickhead writes "Is Douglas Adams scripting the saga of sorrows facing the LHC? These time-traveling Higgs-Boson particles certainly exhibit the sign of his absurd sense of humor! Perhaps it is the Universe itself, conspiring against the revelations intimated by the operation of CERN's Large Hadron Collider? This time, it is not falling cranes, cracked magnets, liquid helium leaks or even links to Al Qaeda, that have halted man's efforts to understand the meaning of life, the universe and everything. It now appears that the collider is hindered from an initial firing by a baguette, dropped by a passing bird: 'The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant overheating in parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic failsafes would have shut down the machine.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Matt_dk writes "Just one week after the first test launch of the Ares I-X rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, which wasn't scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping the flight because, currently, there isn't funding to get an upper stage engine ready in time. Depending on whether the Obama administration decides to continue the Ares I program, this decision may be moot. Earlier this week Sen. Bill Nelson said Obama may make a decision on NASA's future path, based on the report by the Augustine Commission, by the end of November."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>LaserMotive Finds Success In Space Elevator Competition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bucc5062 writes "LaserMotive has achieved the first step towards the creation of a working space elevator by qualifying for the $900,000 prize in a contest sponsored by NASA. To achieve this first level, LaserMotive needed to propel a platform up a cable dangling from a helicopter at over 2 m/s. They hit a top speed of 4.13 m/s. The next level of qualification will be to achieve a climb speed greater then 5 m/s. LaserMotive beamed roughly 400 watts of laser power to a moving target at a distance of 1 kilometer, as part of the vertical laser alignment procedure. The target was a retro-reflective board a little larger than 1 meter on a side. The contest will continue for another two days with at least two other teams challenging for the prize. To win the Power Beaming competition, the LaserMotive system uses a high-power laser array to shine ultra-intense infrared light onto high-efficiency solar cells, converting the light into electric power which then drives a motor. 'Our system will track the vehicle as it climbs, compensating for motion due to wind and other changes. Building on our experience from last year&rsquo;s competition, we are designing an improved system able to capture the full $2,000,000 prize.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MikeChino writes "How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label? The small sticky labels have long been the bane of waste-conscious fruit and vegetable eaters, but that might all change thanks to new technology that uses a low-energy carbon dioxide laser beam to etch information directly onto produce. No more peeling those annoying labels! So far the technology is being used on a number of fruits and vegetables in New Zealand, Australia, and Pacific Rim countries, and it's currently going through the final stages of review by the FDA. Once the technology is approved in the US, researchers from the University of Florida and the USDA Agricultural Research Service hope that it will be used in Florida's massive grapefruit industry."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes 'Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, creating a new ocean, say experts. This is due to a recent geological crack which has appeared in northeastern Ethiopia.'Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Why a High IQ Doesn&#x27;t Mean You&#x27;re Smart</title>
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<description><![CDATA[D1gital_Prob3 writes "How can a 'smart' person act foolishly? Keith Stanovich, professor of human development and applied psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, has grappled with this apparent incongruity for 15 years. He says it applies to more people than you might think. To Stanovich, however, there is nothing incongruous about it. IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and working-memory capacity &mdash; how much information you can hold in mind."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Murderer With &#x22;Aggression Genes&#x22; Gets Reduced Sentence</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Noiser writes "New Scientist reports: 'In 2007, Abdelmalek Bayout admitted to stabbing and killing a man and received a sentence of 9 years and 2 months. An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy, cut Bayout's sentence by a year after finding out he has gene variants linked to aggression.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Placebo Effect Caught In the Act In Spinal Nerves</title>
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<description><![CDATA[SerpensV passes along the news that German scientists have found direct evidence that the spinal cord is involved in the placebo effect (whose diminishing over time we discussed a bit earlier). "The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller, but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish. 'This type of mechanism has been envisioned for over 40 years for placebo analgesia,' says Donald Price, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved in the new study. 'This study provides the most direct test of this mechanism to date.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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<title>Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientific American has a piece on speculation that dark matter may be behind diffuse radiation in the galactic center. Beginning in 2003, researchers led by Douglas Finkbeiner noticed a curious excess of microwave radiation in the WMAP data, after all known sources of such radiation were accounted for. Data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope resulted in a similar anomaly in gamma rays. "A paper posted to the physics preprint Web site arXiv.org on October 26 and submitted to the Astrophysical Journal points to a possible signature of dark matter in the Milky Way, although the study's authors are careful to keep their observations empirical and table such speculation... In the new paper [the researchers] describe the Fermi gamma-ray haze and make the claim that it confirms the synchrotron origin of the WMAP microwave haze. And as with the microwave haze, the authors argue that the electrons responsible for the gamma-ray haze appear to originate from an unknown astrophysical process. ... 'We are absolutely in the process of exploring the Fermi haze in the context of dark matter physics,' [one of them] says."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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        New study may deal final blow to acne drug Accutane</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The study bolstered evidence of a link between the drug, pulled from the market in June, and inflammatory bowel disease. No medication is as effective in treating severe cases of acne.
                        
                    
                    
                        Teenagers and young adults suffering from severe, scarring acne may ultimately lose the most effective treatment for the condition.

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        More than 38 million vaccine doses available against swine flu</title>
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<description><![CDATA['As supplies increase things should go better,' says a CDC official, who adds that flu activity is widespread in 48 states and 'virtually everything is H1N1.'
                        
                    
                    
                        More than 38 million doses of vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza are now available, 11 million more than were available last week and double the number available two weeks ago, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

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        Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just days after birth, German and French infants' wails mimicked the patterns of their native languages. Researchers believe they started to pick up on the melodies in the third trimester.
                        
                    
                    
                        They may not be old enough to talk, but babies less than a week old know how to cry in their native language.

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        Wildlife filmmakers focusing on endangered cats</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dereck and Beverly Joubert, who have spent 25 years documenting Africa's most iconic animals, have teamed with National Geographic on the Big Cats Initiative in an attempt to stop their extinction.
                        
                    
                    
                        South African wildlife photographers and authors Dereck and Beverly Joubert have worked in some of Africa's most remote areas for more than 25 years, recording the life cycles and decline of some of the continent's most iconic animals, in the process winning five Emmys, a Peabody and a Wildscreen Panda Award.

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        High hopes for a malaria vaccine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The makers of Mosquirix announce a trial involving thousands of children in Africa. They aim to seek marketing approval as soon as 2012 and have a vaccine that reduces infections by 80% by 2025.
                        
                    
                    
                        Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people -- 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger than 5 -- and makes 300 million people seriously ill. Major progress in controlling the disease has been made by the widespread adoption of bed nets to keep mosquitoes from attacking children at night and by the use of artemisinin-based therapy, which is the most effective treatment for infections.

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        Obesity puts swine flu sufferers at greater risk, study suggests</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A study in California shows that about a quarter of the people hospitalized for H1N1 complications were morbidly obese, even though less than 5% of the population falls into that category.
                        
                    
                    
                        Obesity appears to be a risk factor on a par with pregnancy for developing complications from an infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza, according to the most comprehensive look yet at swine flu hospitalizations.

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        Gene therapy makes major stride in &#x27;Lorenzo&#x27;s Oil&#x27; disease</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An experimental treatment stabilizes two boys with the rare, fatal degenerative disorder known as ALD. Researchers hail the findings, which come on the tail of other gene-therapy successes.
                        
                    
                    
                        In the third gene-therapy success of recent weeks, French researchers have arrested the progression of the rare and fatal degenerative disorder adrenoleukodystrophy, which was at the heart of the popular movie "Lorenzo's Oil." The disease has stabilized in two boys who were 7 years old when the therapy was performed two years ago, the team reported today in the journal Science.

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        FDA seeks to reduce drug dosage errors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Its program aims to curb wide-ranging problems, which take a toll on health and cost $4 billion a year.
                        
                    
                    
                        In an attempt to reduce the deaths and serious health problems caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration is trying to identify the most serious threats and find ways to avoid them.

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        Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher&#x27;s ideas transformed anthropology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[He was known as the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones.
                        
                    
                    
                        Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones, died Friday at his home in Paris from natural causes. He was 100.

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        Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Author of 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution' shares his passion for spreading an understanding of scientific processes with the layperson.
                        
                    
                    
                        In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's landmark book, "On the Origin of Species," researchers have accrued massive amounts of evidence in support of evolution and the mechanics behind the process. Yet today only 4 in 10 Americans believe that evolution occurred.

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