On June 11, a 6-year-old Texas girl had the entire right half of her brain removed to stop devastating seizures; amazingly, her memory and personalit
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The TV uses about one-fourth the power and has about one-third the annual energy consumption of a conventional CRT TV with the same screen size. Compared to today´s LCD TVs, the low-power prototype uses about one-third the power, and about one-half
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A college student allegedly asked a minimum of ten dollars in exchange for voting at the upcoming presidential election, according to the whim of the highest bidder oneBay. Now he faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Max Sanders, a s
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Scientists have provided the strongest evidence yet that the anti-aging benefits of calorically restricted diets can be duplicated -- minus the near-starvation -- by a pill. In a study published today in Cell Metabolism, mice given resveratrol -- th
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A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported. Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and testos
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British Muslims feel "like the Jews of Europe" because of a growing culture of hostility against them, a Government minister has warned. Shahid Malik, the UK's first Muslim minister, said it has b
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Monthly fees aside, it looks like the cost consumers will pay for the new 3G iPhone isn't that much more than what it costs Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to
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A baby boy removed from his parents' custody after they offered to sell him on eBay for just a euro — $1.59 — as a joke is back at home, a prosecuto
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Husband and wife Francisco and Casilda Figueiredo are among the last exponents of a traditional Portuguese handicraft -- making ornamental ceramic pe
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Many people think of food waste as a benign substance. It rots down in the landfill anyway, so no problem, right? Wrong! For food to compost properly
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Some like it hot, but 120° F? That's the range temperatures around much of the world will be hitting during heat waves in 2100 due to global warmin
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