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CEO Salary Bigger Than Tax Bill at 7 Top Companies
(Newser) - Two Washington think tanks have some jarring figures in a report outlining the case for corporate tax reform: Seven of the top 30 US firms pay more to their CEOs than they pay in federal income tax, according to the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Brittany Maynard's Mom Defends Daughter's Choice to Die
(Newser) - When Brittany Maynard chose to end her life on her terms rather than on cancer's terms, the Vatican wasted little time in labeling the move "reprehensible." Today, Maynard's mother gave it right back, reports ABC News . "My 29-year-old daughter's choice to die gently rather... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Guy Racks Up $1.2K In-Flight WiFi Bill
(Newser) - When Jeremy Gutsche signed up for a WiFi plan on a Singapore Airlines flight last week, he knew he was getting 30 megabytes for $28.99 and would be responsible for any additional data he used. What he apparently did not know was that by "checking email and uploading... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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Lander 'Sniffed' Organic Molecules on Comet
(Newser) - Before its battery petered out , the small spacecraft that landed on a moving comet managed to detect organic molecules on the comet, reports NBC News . An instrument aboard the Philae lander essentially sniffed the atmosphere and found evidence of the molecules, which, as the Wall Street Journal explains, are the... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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America Is Warming Up to the Pit Bull
(Newser) - Once the scourge of the dog population, pit bulls are being slowly welcomed back, with communities across the country loosening their leashes and overturning bans on what USA Today says was once "America's most vilified pet." Since June alone, nine Midwest communities have struck down mixed-breed restrictions... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Woman Who Dissed Trump for Years Sells—to Icahn
(Newser) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has bought an Atlantic City property that earned its owner folk hero status for resisting decades of overtures from developers including Donald Trump. Citing real estate records, the Press of Atlantic City reports Icahn's IEH Investments paid $583,000 for Vera Coking's modest three-story... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Apps Are Killing the Web
(Newser) - It might soon be time to pay last respects to what we know as "the web," writes Christopher Mims at the Wall Street Journal . It's "dying," he writes, and the killer is easy to find: Just look at your smartphone and count the apps. These... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Brain Pathway Science Forgot Is Rediscovered
(Newser) - In 2012, a team of researchers out of the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences thought they'd stumbled upon a new pathway in the brain associated with reading that had somehow been glossed over by their predecessors. "We couldn't find it in any... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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It's Time for More of Us to Get Overtime Pay
(Newser) - If you feel like you're working harder and longer than your parents did, yet not doing as well as they did, Nick Hanauer points to one reason why: overtime pay. "Your parents got a lot of it, and you don't," writes the Seattle-based entrepreneur on Politico... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Scientists May Have Saved Continent's Rarest Mammal
(Newser) - The black-footed ferret is the rarest mammal on the continent, but conservation efforts are making strides in preventing it from disappearing altogether. That's what people thought had happened 35 years ago, when the animal was declared extinct—for the second time. But after a dog found a black-footed ferret... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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US Worries Russia Put a 'Satellite Killer' in Space
(Newser) - The US military is among those tracking an object Russia recently sent into space. Object 2014-28E, which has been moving toward other Russian space objects, was at first thought to be simply debris, the Financial Times reports. It could be intended to repair satellites already in space, or it could... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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74% Would Pull Their Kids From Vaccine-Lax Day Care
(Newser) - Most parents would consider yanking their kids out of a day care setting if other kids weren't vaccinated, according to a study by the University of Michigan's CS Mott Children's Hospital . More than 600 parents of kids up to the age of 5 were queried for the... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of 'Melting' Starfish
(Newser) - Scientists think they finally know what causes sea star wasting syndrome, the disease that's killing off starfish in massive numbers. In a new study , researchers from a number of universities have linked the devastating disease—which causes starfish to rip off their own arms and dissolve into piles of... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Archaeologists Search for Slain Playwright's Remains
(Newser) - A Spanish official describes finding the remains of playwright Federico Garcia Lorca "like finding a needle in a haystack"—and the search for that needle has begun. Archaeologists yesterday kicked off a 10-day inspection of a 3,200-square-foot plot of land where they believe Garcia Lorca may have... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Uber Exec: We Could Drop $1M to Dig Dirt on Journos
(Newser) - First rule when you're an Uber exec trying to mend fences with the media: Don't blurt out you've been thinking about digging up dirt on the media. Apparently that was the strategy of Emil Michael at a Friday dinner in NYC, where he spouted outrage over a... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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