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3 Americans Win Nobel for Finding Expanding Universe
(Newser) - The universe isn't just expanding, it's expanding faster every day. Three American scientists who made that discovery have won the Nobel Prize in Physics today for their efforts, the AP reports. The men were split between two competing research teams during the 1990s, with Saul Perlmutter on one... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Spock Transports to Final Star Trek Convention
(Newser) - Spock may live long and prosper, but he's had it with Star Trek conventions. Leonard Nimoy is ditching the Vulcan mind meld with devoted fans at the Trekkie fests now that he's 80 (in human years). The cosmic get-together over the weekend in suburban Chicago celebrating the 45th... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Feds: Do-Nothing Fannie Mae Knew of Foreclosure Abuses in '03
(Newser) - Mortgage officials at government-sponsored Fannie Mae knew eight years ago of possibly illegal foreclosures by law firms they employed—but did nothing to stop them, according to a federal report. Fannie Mae's own investigation concluded that Florida attorneys were "routinely filing false pleadings and affidavits" to improperly foreclose... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Going Rate for an NYC Island: $160K
(Newser) - It's 2.5 acres of rock that's mostly submerged at times, has no electricity or power, was best known for housing typhoid victims (or so goes the legend), and bears the ungainly moniker of Rat Island—and for $160,000, it could have been your little island just... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Whoops: Today's Nobel Winner Died on Friday
(Newser) - Earlier today, the Nobel team announced this year’s winners for medicine ; hours later, it emerged that one of the three intended recipients, immune researcher Ralph Steinman, has been dead for three days, the BBC reports. "The news is bittersweet," said the president of Rockefeller University, where Steinman... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health, .
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Deaf Woman Hears Her Voice for First Time
(Newser) - In a dramatic and touching video that went viral over the weekend , Sarah Churman—severely hearing impaired from birth—heard herself for the first time. The video, shot by Churman's husband, shows Churman crying as her new Esteem Inner Ear Stimulator, the first implantable hearing aid for people with... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, , Arts & Living.
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Facebook Delays Timeline Launch in Battle Over Name
(Newser) - Whether you’re dreading it or desperate for it , you’ll have to wait at least a few more days to use Facebook’s new Timeline . There’s already an online firm called Timelines, and it’s not happy about the plan: The company, whose service is similar to what... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Perry Gave Huge Tax Grants to Subprime Lenders
(Newser) - Rick Perry handed mortgage lenders millions to draw them to Texas—right when their risky lending practices surged. The governor gave Countrywide $20 million and Washington Mutual $15 million in what he called an exemplary job-creation move; in effect, that $35 million subsidized dangerous subprime lending, an AP analysis of... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Yahoo, ABC News Team Up
(Newser) - ABC News and Yahoo! announced a major new alliance today that will make ABC the “premier news provider” for Yahoo’s news sites. “Teaming with Yahoo will transform the future of ABC News by distributing your journalism to a vast new audience,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business, Technology.
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Tobacco Firms Knew of Radiation in Cigs—in 1959
(Newser) - Tobacco companies were well aware that their products contained radiation—and they discovered this decades ago, UCLA researchers studying 27 historical documents have found. The firms learned of the presence of polonium-210 in cigarettes in 1959, and they examined the radioactive material's effects during the 1960s, documents show. They... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) .
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Some Russians Worship Putin— Literally
(Newser) - At the Chapel of Russia's Resurrection, in a village 250 miles east of Moscow, the parishioners pray to a most unusual patron saint—Vladimir Putin, who they consider a reincarnation of St. Paul, reports Der Spiegel . The church was founded by a woman who calls herself "Mother Fotina"... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Island Nation Creates Largest Shark Sanctuary
(Newser) - A Mexico-size chunk of the Pacific will soon be a haven for sharks—and they have a tiny island nation to thank. The Marshall Islands’ government is declaring its waters off-limits to commercial shark fishing and the trade of shark products, the BBC reports, providing the creatures with 750,000... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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