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Roberts riles the right inside and outside the Supreme Court
Reports suggest he may have switched his vote to uphold Obama's healthcare law on a legal point.WASHINGTON — Conservative attacks on Chief JusticeJohn G. Roberts Jr.grew over the weekend in...
Healthcare law still faces obstacles
After surviving the Supreme Court, the legislation must now weather the November election. Even if Democrats prevail, it's likely to be a target in a renewed battle over federal spending....
China blocks Xi searches after Bloomberg report
China blocked web searches on Saturday for the name of leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, a day after cutting access to Bloomberg sites following the agency's publication of a report on his...
Balky states likely to join Medicaid expansion
If you pay for it, they will come. That was the opinion of experts gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health Friday, as they discussed the national health care reform law’s...
Well: Bread Pudding Recipes for Health
In this week's Recipes for Health, Martha Rose Shulman offers five new ways to make sweet, savory and satisfying bread puddings.
20 Worst-Named Phones and Tablets
Mobile device companies mastermind memorable monikers that are supposed to generate buzz but only cause confusion. Here are 20 examples.
iPhone turns 5: What's next for Apple device?
NY Times tech columnist anticipates longer iPhone with bigger battery to debut in fall
Lack of common strategy may have caused longer, bloodier Civil War
Lacking firm ideas on how to fight and win the Civil War, Northern military commanders and politicians struggled to find [...]
Green Blog: University Will Not Investigate Fracking Institute
Invoking academic freedom, officials say they plan no inquiry into a new university institute that critics say distorted the safety record of fracking.
FDA User Fee Programs Renewed
Congress passes legislation allowing agency to continue charging for drug, device reviews.
RIM shares tumble at open
Investors in Research In Motion hit the "sell" button today after the release of dismal earnings results, sending stock in the beleaguered BlackBerry maker to fresh multi-year lows.
In Health Care Ruling, Investors See a Mixed Blessing
The shares of major insurers suffered a modest dip on Thursday, while pharmaceutical and device companies fell slightly, and hospital stocks rose.
Clariant To Sell Three Businesses
Specialties: Swiss firm pursues strategy to increase profitability, reduce market risks
Leap second to be added
A leap second will be introduced on 30 June 2012 following a decision made by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) earlier this year. This could potentially...
Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
(AP) Hackers broke into computers at hotel giant Wyndham Worldwide Corp. three times in two years and stole credit card information belonging to hundreds of thousands of customers. Wyndham...
City's European Green Capital bid
Bristol will discover later if it has won the title of European Green Capital in 2014.
Wimbledon strawberry prices would almost double without bees
(Phys.org) -- Wimbledon fans were today warned they would face price rises on their strawberries of 84% if bees disappeared, according to new research.
Filling the nutrition needs for kids on summer holidays
Summer holidays for students brings an end to breakfast and lunch programs at school but a company and network of food banks across Canada are stepping in to fill kids'...
New approach to preparing teachers can close student achievement gap
Public schools are increasingly moving toward a system known as the PreK-3rd approach, in which pre-kindergartens, full-day kindergartens, and primary grades are organized as a coordinated system of education. According...
IEEE honors MIT milestones in computing and navigation
In the years during and after World War II, MIT played a prominent role in developing technologies that helped the U.S. military defeat Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, and later in creating systems...
Verizon, T-Mobile agree to swap spectrum
A spectrum exchange between Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA would improve T-Mobile's service in some areas, enhance both carriers' national networks, and erase T-Mobile's objections to a controversial, earlier deal...
New Wi-Fi standard will speed up video streaming
It wasn't long ago families squabbled over who was hogging the TV remote control. Now they face off over who's hogging the bandwidth.
Privately funded spacecraft will look for dangerous asteroids
B612 Foundation wants to protect humanity from deadly collisions
Government cut addictions centre over lack of results
The federal governemtn said funding was cut to the Addictions Research Centre because it wasn't producing results.
Tech review: New MacBook Pro puts form over function
Steve Jobs was great at introducing devices before people realized they wanted or needed them.
In praise of … taking risks | Editorial
Our inability to retain perspective on damge reflects a wider failing to reckon rationally with riskAfter comparing the dangers of ecstasy and "equasy" (or horse-riding addiction), Professor David Nutt was hounded out as...
US co exported software used in Chinese helicopter
(AP) A division of United Technologies Corp. pleaded guilty Thursday to crimes related to the illegal export of software that U.S. officials say was used by China to develop...
Ford explores call turnoffs for stressed-out drivers
(Phys.org) -- No calls for you. That is the word from a new technology experiment by Ford, for stressed-out drivers who risk accidents by distractions from incoming calls, playing music,...