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Wasabi Alarm, Beer Sex Beetles Win Ig Nobels
(Newser) - The annual Ig Nobel prizes for odd research were handed out last night and the winning scientists were as weird as ever. Among the winners were a Japanese team that determined the ideal level of airborne wasabi to awaken sleepers (for a potential fire alarm), a Norwegian who tried to... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Trump Casino Offers Plastic Surgery Jackpot
(Newser) - An Atlantic City casino is offering frequent gamblers a chance to win a new face. Loyalty card holders who amass enough points at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City will be entered into a drawing for $25,000 in plastic surgery procedures of their choice, AP reports.... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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China Launches Space Lab to America the Beautiful
(Newser) - Weird. China took its first step toward building a space station last night and while the launch of the unmanned Tiangong-1 space lab went smoothly, there was a major slip-up in the propaganda department. State broadcaster CCTV's launch coverage included an animation of the module docking with a crew... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Even Loser Execs Still Getting Mammoth Exit Pay
(Newser) - Remember the furious demands in the wake of the Wall Street crisis that exorbitant executive exit pay be cut? Not happening. Even big-time loser executives are still reaping incredible windfalls. Take Léo Apotheker, bounced from the top of Hewlett-Packard after a year that saw company stock plummet. His punishment... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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What Did Michelle Buy at Target?
(Newser) - You might have been wearing dark glasses, Michelle, but we saw you shopping at Target. What were you after? One of the two-for-one bikini bargains? The White House isn't talking, but a source tells People magazine that she picked up toys and food for First Dog Bo in the... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Would We Ever Elect the Fat Guy?
(Newser) - Is Chris Christie too fat for the White House? His extra girth could serve him well in an election—to a point. It makes him look like one of the gang, if the gang is the growing number of obese Americans. And his pounds prove he's a guy not... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) , Arts & Living.
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Feds Plan 'Garage Sale' to Raise $22B
(Newser) - The federal government is going through its stuff looking for things it doesn't use much anymore and can sell off to raise some cash. A "garage sale" included in President Obama's deficit reduction plan could see the government selling off unused land, roads, vehicles, and even airwaves,... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Twitter Proves Everyone Gets Afternoon Blues
(Newser) - Do you frequently find yourself in a late-afternoon funk? You’re in good company: It’s a worldwide phenomenon, and Twitter proves it, researchers say. Despite different cultures, “we found a very similar pattern in India, Africa, Europe, the UK, Canada, North America, Australia,” says a sociology professor.... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Science & Health, .
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Cat With 2 Faces Sets Record
(Newser) - The cat is named Frank and Louie. Yep, Frank and Louie. That's because it was born with two faces, mouths, and noses (but just three eyes, the middle of which can't blink). And he almost didn't make it. Marty Stevens rescued the cat from being euthanized, and... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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NASA: We've IDed Most Killer Asteroids Out There
(Newser) - You can sleep easy tonight. Or easy-ish. NASA today announced that it has identified more than 90% of the giant asteroids out there that could threaten Earth (think dinosaur-killing size). "We know now where most of them are and where most of them are going. That really has reduced... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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'Magic Mushrooms' Could Change You for the Better
(Newser) - All that hippie stuff about opening your mind may have some truth to it. Scientists have found that psilocybin, the drug in "magic mushrooms," can improve one aspect of a subject’s personality: her "openness." In a trial, nearly 60% of subjects who were given one... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health, Arts & Living.
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Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak: More Deaths Likely
(Newser) - The cantaloupe-borne listeria outbreak has now spread to 18 states, and it’ll probably get worse before it gets better, health officials tell the LA Times . While the official death toll is still at 13, that’s expected to rise as more testing is done on suspected listeria victims, and... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Bank of America to Charge Debit Users $5 a Month
(Newser) - Bank of America customers beware: Your debit card is about to get a lot more expensive. The bank intends to start charging many customers $5 a month if they use their debit cards, in what the company says is an effort to offset new federal regulations limiting the fees it... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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In Amazon's Warehouse, Shades of Grapes of Wrath
(Newser) - In the Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family gets a hard lesson in economics, when they follow a handbill for jobs to California—only to find there are no jobs. Why, he asks, did they put out the handbills? A fellow homeless man replies that if you’ve but one... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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41% Plan to Buy iPhone 5
(Newser) - Could the iPhone 5 be Apple’s biggest hit yet? Consumers still haven’t even seen the device— it’s set to be unveiled Tuesday —but a recent survey from the mobile ad network inMobi found that a whopping 41% of North American mobile users are already planning to... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Another Falling Satellite on Its Way
(Newser) - Brace yourself: Another satellite is falling, and this time the chances are one in 2,000 that it’ll hit someone. A German satellite known as ROSAT is due to plummet around the end of October, and while a lot of it will disintegrate before returning to Earth, experts say... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Buffett Terrifies Conservatives
(Newser) - Conservatives are tripping over each other in their zeal to attack Warren Buffett, and it’s not hard to see why, writes EJ Dionne in the Washington Post . “Buffett’s sin is that he spoke a truth that conservatives want to keep covered up,” namely that there’s... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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'Crisis Tracker' Maps Atrocities in Africa
(Newser) - Two nonprofit rights groups are bringing technology to bear on a rebel group that has terrorized Uganda and central Africa for more than two decades. Mashable takes note of a digital mapping service called LRA Crisis Tracker that provides real-time accounts of assaults, kidnappings, and worse committed by the infamous... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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6 Things Amazon's Tablet Has Over the iPad
(Newser) - Surely you’ve heard by know that Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet isn’t an iPad killer . But it does have a few desirable traits that the iPad doesn’t. The Huffington Post lists six of them: It supports Flash: Many iPad and iPhone users wish that Apple would take... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Alaska to Build $64M 'Runway to Nowhere'
(Newser) - Meet the Bridge to Nowhere’s little brother. Alaska is preparing to build a $64 million, 4,500-foot runway on tiny Akun Island, with the federal government footing the vast majority of the bill ($59 million to the state’s $5 million), according to an Alaska Dispatch report spotted by... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Scientists Back Up Frankenstein Moon Tale
(Newser) - Literary critics have long doubted Mary Shelley's claim that the idea for Frankenstein came to her one night in a vision of sorts, when she woke up and saw moonlight streaming through her shutters. But now researchers have proven that Shelley was telling the truth—or at least possibly... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Germany OKs Expanded Bailout
(AP) - German lawmakers have cleared the way for an expansion of the size and powers of the euro zone bailout fund, in a major step toward tackling the bloc's sprawling sovereign debt crisis. A clear majority of lawmakers in Germany's lower house of parliament voted today in favor of... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, September 30, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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