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Santorum Gripes to Google About Search Problem
(Newser) - Rick Santorum has complained to Google about his Google problem—without success. Sex columnist Dan Savage long ago ensured that the top Google result for a search of "santorum" is a page defining the word as a graphic term relating to anal sex, something Santorum says Google could fix... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Gay Student, 14, Takes Life After Pleas for Help
(Newser) - As members of the US military were about to celebrate their right to serve as gays, one gentle New York gay student, 14, was ending his life because he could no longer face bullying at his school. "I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens,"... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Mom With Two Uteruses Has Twins
(Newser) - A woman in Florida has pulled off what her obstetrician figures to be a 1-in-5-million longshot by giving birth to twins, reports the St. Petersburg Times . Why the long odds? Andreea Barbosa has a rare condition called uterus didelphys, meaning she has not one uterus but two. That in itself... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Vicious Small-Town Gossip Gets Online Forum
(Newser) - It’s small-town gossip 2.0: Tiny towns in the Ozarks, Appalachia, and elsewhere are increasingly turning to the Internet for local chatter—and when posts are anonymous, they can get nasty. On sites like Topix.com, cruel rumors get started virtually, and true or not, the fallout can be... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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NASA's New Worry: Astronauts Going Blind
(Newser) - NASA has a serious health concern to resolve before it fires up a manned mission to Mars or some other way-off locale: Astronauts might not be able to see anything once they get there. As the Orlando Sentinel explains, the space agency is seeing more cases of astronauts reporting blurred... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health, .
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Rich People Don't Pay Less Taxes Than Secretaries
(Newser) - Listening to Barack Obama's speech yesterday , you might have come away with the impression that millionaires everywhere pay less in taxes than their secretaries, as Warren Buffett has oft claimed. But that's hardly the case, according to an AP fact check. The claim relies on the fact that... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Italy Lashes Out After S&P Downgrade
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi’s office reacted angrily to Standard & Poor’s downgrade of Italy’s credit rating today, insisting that it had a solid majority in parliament and was taking the necessary steps to solve Italy’s debt crisis, the New York Times reports. “The evaluations of Standard &... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Report Finds $16 Muffins at Justice Dept. Conferences
(Newser) - One possible reason we’re broke: US Justice Department agencies like to spend extravagantly when it comes to conferences, to the tune of providing $16 muffins at one. (No, that is not a typo.) An audit released today found that the “costly meals, refreshments, and themed breaks” provided... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Airline Bag Fees Hit $400
(Newser) - How crazy have airline baggage fees gotten? Well, checking an overweight (that's a 71- to 100-pound) bag will now cost you a whopping $400 on most Continental Airlines international flights. And Continental isn’t alone either, according to a survey of major carriers by USA Today ; United Airlines also... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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US to Build Huge New Prison in Afghanistan
(Newser) - The Obama administration is supposedly determined to cut hundreds of billions in spending, so it struck Glenn Greenwald of Salon as ironic when he noticed that the military last week started soliciting bids for the construction of a massive prison in Bagram, Afghanistan. The facility is to hold approximately 2,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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New Organ Donation Rules: Smart or Scary?
(Newser) - New organ donation rules currently under consideration would make it easier for surgeons to retrieve organs for transplant after a donor’s heart stops beating—but opponents fear the changes will contribute to a culture of doctors “hovering, hovering, hovering to get more organs,” says one. The proposed... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Italian Scientists on Trial Over Earthquake Deaths
(Newser) - Predicting earthquakes is shaky business at best, but that detail isn't stopping Italian officials from prosecuting a group of prominent scientists over their failure to do exactly that. Six scientists and one government official face charges of manslaughter for allegedly failing to provide adequate warning of imminent disaster to... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Satellite to Hit Earth Friday—or Fridayish
(Newser) - We know it's coming ... and now we sort of know when. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite—the 1,100 pounds of it that make it through Earth’s atmosphere—will crash onto land or sea on Friday. Give or take a day . The Washington Post notes NASA will get... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Citi Goes Wild With Credit Card Offers
(Newser) - Citigroup is moving aggressively to expand its credit card business, hoping to capitalize on rivals who are toning down their efforts in the area. The bank sent out a whopping 346 million card offers to North American customers in the third quarter alone—which, the Wall Street Journal observes, is... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Soon, Drones Could Kill Without Human Guidance
(Newser) - Could robots be the soldiers of the future? The Pentagon is currently working on drones that can identify—and will eventually be able to eliminate—targets without any human controlling them. The Washington Post details a demonstration last fall in which a pair of model-sized planes, working in tandem, located... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Scientists Find Trick to 'Disarm' HIV
(Newser) - A group of US and European scientists have discovered a way to prevent the HIV virus from harming the immune system, in a breakthrough that could lead to an entirely new approach to fighting AIDS. They discovered that by extracting cholesterol, they could render the virus a sitting duck for... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Samsung Will Try to Ban iPhone 5 Sales
(Newser) - Samsung’s latest move in its epic battle with Apple : File lawsuits attempting to block the sale of the iPhone 5. A local paper cites a Samsung official who says the company will take strategic legal action against Apple as it is expected to begin selling the phone next month.... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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New Facebook Buttons: Read, Watched, Listened
(Newser) - Facebook is taking its "Like" concept to the next level, and will launch new buttons—Read, Listened, and Watched—at its developer conference this week, a source tells TechCrunch . The buttons will appear on users' walls, allowing them to proclaim that they Read, Listened, or Watched content in their... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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