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Mackenzie Phillips arrested on drug charge
27.08.2008 17:00
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former "One Day at Time" television star Mackenzie Phillips was arrested on Wednesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of drug possession, police said.
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McCartney to perform in Israel for first time
27.08.2008 16:00
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paul McCartney will perform for the first time ever in Israel next month -- more than 40 years after the Beatles were blocked from giving a concert in the country, the singer announced on Wednesday.
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Colliding galaxies shed light on dark matter
27.08.2008 16:00
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter.
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Science & Education
HIV spreads in NY at three times the U.S. average
27.08.2008 15:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.
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Fannie Mae announces management shakeup
27.08.2008 14:00
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Battered mortgage-finance company Fannie Mae on Wednesday announced a sweeping management shake-up in an effort to come to grips with mounting credit losses and a shrinking capital base.
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Economics & Finance
Toiling Jankovic and Kuznetsova secure victories
27.08.2008 14:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Second seed Jelena Jankovic and former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova had to work much harder than expected to shake off their opponents in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday.
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Microsoft releases beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8
27.08.2008 13:00
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp released on Wednesday a second test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the world's most widely used Web browser.
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Internet
New Orleans mulls evacuation as Gustav looms
27.08.2008 13:00
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents on Wednesday again confronted the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed.
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Union prepares proposal for Boeing as strike looms
27.08.2008 13:00
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boeing Co's largest labor union said it was preparing to issue a contract proposal on Wednesday, as negotiations ground on ahead of a threatened strike that could cost the company $3 billion a month.
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Researchers turn living cells into insulin-makers
27.08.2008 12:00
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have transformed ordinary cells into insulin-producing cells in a living mouse, improving symptoms of diabetes in a major step towards regenerative medicine.
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Flying is a headache, literally, for many travelers
27.08.2008 12:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Headaches associated with air travel appear to be a "huge and painful problem," Israeli researchers report.
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Survey finds causes of cancer little understood
27.08.2008 12:00
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GENEVA (Reuters) - People in rich and poor countries alike have faulty understanding of what causes cancer and need better education on how to ward off the disease, according to an authoritative report issued on Wednesday.
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Fertility treatments induce gene mutations: study
27.08.2008 12:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) or another assisted fertility technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to conceive appears to increase the odds of Y-chromosome defects or "microdeletions" in male offspring, Chinese researchers report.
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Sleep helps selectively preserve emotional memories
27.08.2008 12:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sleep tends to help people better remember aspects of a negative event while allowing memory of background information to fade, researchers have found.
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Thinness in midlife boosts later brittle bone risk
27.08.2008 12:00
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who are slimmer in middle age are at greater risk of having osteoporosis later in life, a new study confirms.
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