May 18, 2012 As Facebook goes public today, there's no question that it's a powerful way to stay connected - but that's not the same thing as making money. So, why do investors seem to like it so much? It depends on what you mean by "like." |
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May 18, 2012 How long would you have to study and practice to become one of the best at something - anything? Dan McLaughlin has decided to put that question to the test. For six hours a day, six days a week, he plays golf - aiming for the PGA Tour someday. |
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May 18, 2012 A good idea can make a young man a fortune. Witness Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook - think how much money he must be making today! A couple of other young guys also had an idea - not a bigger or better one than Facebook, but a Higher One. |
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May 18, 2012 Scientists in Australia have discovered a molecule in the brain that may hold the key to slowing - or even curing - dementia. It's been known for some time now that exercise is good for the brain - and the scientists may have found the reason why. |
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May 17, 2012 President Obama is urging Congress to pass a "to-do list" of items to fire up the economy. On Capitol Hill, both parties remain at odds over what to do about the deficit and the debt. Get ready for a long, hot campaign summer in Washington. |
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May 17, 2012 Wouldn't it be wonderful if, someday, robotics could make it possible for a person wearing a prosthetic limb to do everything a real limb does - controlled in the same way by the brain? Well, some very encouraging strides are being made... |
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May 17, 2012 Did you know that if you use your credit or debit card at a gasoline pump, thieves have a way of "skimming" the numbers off your card - and then siphoning the money out of your bank account? All they have to use is a very cheap device... |
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May 17, 2012 It's nice to know there's still a bank like the one that Patrick J. Cullen runs in a former manufacturing hub in Western New York. The Bank of Cattaraugus is not your typical hometown bank, especially compared to those big banks on Wall Street. |
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May 16, 2012 Jamie Dimon went into yesterday's shareholders meeting in Tampa of JPMorgan Chase as CEO and Chairman of the Board. There was a challenge to the chairmanship, so that had to be voted on - as did his 23 million dollar pay package for last year... |
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May 16, 2012 There's a national obesity crisis in the United States that's killing us literally - and killing our health care budgets, too. Across the country, local officials are taking up the challenge - including Mayor Karl Dean of Nashville, Tennessee. |
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May 16, 2012 Guilt doesn't do much good for you in business, politics or in anything else. But the kind of "Gilt" that Kevin Ryan has built - on the Internet - is the kind without a "u" in it, the kind of "g-i-l-t" that glitters. |
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May 16, 2012 Have you ever been to Venice - where some say pigeons are a menace? Because there are so many there in Piazza San Marco - St. Mark's Square. There is little or no grass whatsoever, but there are people - are there ever! |
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May 15, 2012 A week from today - next Tuesday - will be the first anniversary of the rare F5 tornado with winds more than 200 miles an hour that devastated Joplin, Missouri - killing 160 people. Ruben Carter was a hero that day... |
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May 15, 2012 Even with unemployment at 8.1% nationwide, as many as a million manufacturing jobs remain unfilled - because of a shortage of skilled workers. And in Michigan, Doug Stites knows about trying to find people for jobs and jobs for people. |
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May 15, 2012 The tiny town of Pray, Montana - population, 11 - goes on the auction block next month. All five acres of the town can be yours for an asking price of 1.4 million dollars. Barbara Walker is the current owner of Pray - lock, stock and barrel. |
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May 15, 2012 At the Jungle Island Zoo in Florida, orangutans are learning to use iPads to correctly identify objects - like food, body parts and animals. A whole new market for Apple products? Not exactly, but teaching visitors that orangutans are pretty cool. |
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May 14, 2012 We hear more about the middle class these days than about the poor. But 15 percent of Americans live under the poverty line. In Mississippi it's 22 percent. They can't afford to get the boiler replaced at the public high school. |
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May 14, 2012 Last week when 32 year old Claire Lomas crossed the finish line of the London Marathon, 16 days after the race started, it was regarded as a triumph. She raised money for a spinal research charity and completed the full course despite being paralyzed from the chest down. |
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May 14, 2012 In science, business sports and a lot of other aspects of life we're obsessed with numbers. How much, how many, how far, how fast, things you can quantify. If you know the numbers, you can make equations and solve for the unknown. |
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May 14, 2012 We were talking earlier with Chip Conley, the business executive slash writer of the best seller "Peak" about his new book "Emotional Equations." |
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May 11, 2012 Everybody says the disappointing performance of the U.S. economy when it comes to jobs can only be improved if the manufacturing sector improves. President Obama says it. Mitt Romney says it. But saying it isn't enough... |
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May 11, 2012 We were talking earlier with University of Maryland economist and business Professor Peter Morici about the critical importance of expanding manufacturing to get the economy back on track. |
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May 11, 2012 Two years ago, of the 396 incumbents who ran for re-election in the House of Representatives, only four were defeated by a challenger in their own party. But this year, there is a growing movement to throw the rascals out... |
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May 11, 2012 Animal studies have taught us a lot about the human species. Though we have evolved in different ways, we are the same in many ways too. Some recent research in Singapore using zebrafish is teaching us more about the nature of fear. |
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May 10, 2012 It's come down now to Obama vs. Romney. And nobody can tell you who's going to win. Questions that start out "if the election were held today" are based on a false premise because the election is not being held today, or any day until election day. |
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May 10, 2012 We were talking earlier with Professor Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, about the thrust of politics at this point. Negative as it can be. Professor Sabato, the political pros seem to think negative is stronger and better. |
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May 10, 2012 We were talking earlier with Professor Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, about the thrust of politics at this point. Negative as it can be. Professor Sabato, the political pros seem to think negative is stronger and better. |
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May 10, 2012 In the state of Georgia, hard hit by the recession and long term unemployment, churches have set up what they call generosity funds to help struggling families and appointed money missionaries to show them how to use it. |
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May 9, 2012 Most Americans approaching retirement today don't have any where near enough money to support themselves. And half have no retirement plan at all. What happened to the 401K plans that we've had since 1978? |
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May 9, 2012 For baby boomers, it must have sounded sort of quaint and old fashioned to hear their parents and grandparents say you've got you save for a rainy day. Until now that is. |
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May 9, 2012 A government study released earlier this week reports that over a third or Americans are obese and by the year 2030 it will be 42%. Our CBS News colleague Terrell Brown tells us. |
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May 9, 2012 There are shortages of cancer drugs for children. Dozens of cancer drugs are in short supply. Congress has been working for fourteen months on legislation to require Drug companies to notify the FDA if a shortage is developing. |
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May 8, 2012 Once upon a time before his years in the U.S. Senate, his Championship play with the New York Knicks, Bill Bradley was the subject of an acclaimed best selling book by John McFee titled "A Sense of Where you Are." As an All American player for Princeton, Bradley had an uncanny sense of where he was on the court. We spoke with Bradley recently and asked him. |
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May 8, 2012 We've been talking this morning with former U.S. Senator and basketball great Bill Bradley about his new book out today, "We Can All Do Better". |
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May 8, 2012 Representative Kristi Noem, Republican of South Dakota was at the graduation ceremony at South Dakota State University on Saturday. But as our CBS News colleague Whit Johnson puts it, she was multi-tasking. |
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May 8, 2012 Can girls get into the NBA? Yes they can, at least in the NBA our CBS News colleague Lee Cowan is about to tell us about. In fact boys can't get in. |
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May 7, 2012 Where is all the ice going? Two Colorado-based climate studies using satellite technology have been able, for the first time, to measure the amount of ice being lost through melting over an eight year period. |
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May 7, 2012 Upstate New York has been hard hit by the recession. But in Albany, people seem to be living a charmed life, according to our CBS News colleague Jim Axelrod. |
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May 7, 2012 We were talking earlier with Charles Mahtesian, the national politics editor of Politico, about how unlikely it is that anything constructive can happen in Congress from now until Election Day given the demonizing that goes on these days. |
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May 7, 2012 Once the major presidential candidates are at least virtually in place, as they seem to be now, it's not uncommon for the parties to move toward the center since they want to have as broad an appeal as possible. But Charles Mahtesian and Jim Vandehei of Politico say things are going to get worse! |
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May 4, 2012 The U.S. Military declassified 17 letters from Osama bin Laden that were among the documents taken from his compound in Pakistan the night he was killed by the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six. The letters show a man struggling to retain control. |
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May 4, 2012 There was little question as to who'd take over al-Qaida when Osama bin Laden was killed. That would be the Egyptian physician-turned-terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri. Is he as much of a threat to the United States now as bin Laden once was? |
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May 4, 2012 Did you hear about the decision made by Maryland's highest court last week on the breed of dogs known as pit bulls? If your pit bull bites, no longer does negligence need to be proven. No state has gone this far before. |
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May 4, 2012 There are two main reasons we eat. One is that we need the nourishment. The other is that we get pleasure out of it - enough pleasure, in fact, to get many of us into trouble. The latter kind is also known as "hedonic eating." |
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May 3, 2012 Yesterday, Newt Gingrich did what everybody knew he had to do at this point: quit the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He didn't say "quit," of course - or "drop out." What now for Obama-vs.-Romney as Campaign 2012 moves on? |
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May 3, 2012 "Born Too Soon" is the title of new report from the March of Dimes on pre-term births, which ranks the United States with our 12 per 100 live births preterm - tied for 130th, along with Somalia, Turkey and Thailand. |
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May 3, 2012 There's a new book out called "Games Primates Play" by Dario Maestripieri, a professor of comparative human development at the University of Chicago - who examines the parallels between how monkeys interact and how we humans do. |
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May 3, 2012 An FDA panel voted last week to recommend approval of a new kind of experimental heart pump called a HeartWare device, for heart patients waiting for a transplant. The device already made a big difference to heart patient Richard French. |
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May 2, 2012 It was four in the morning, local time, at Bagram Air Field in Afghanstan - with Air Force One waiting to take him home - where President Obama spoke to the American people about the war being fought in their name for a decade now. |
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May 2, 2012 Following the recent prostitution scandal involving Secret Service agents in Colombia prior to President Obama's recent visit there, about a hundred Secret Service personnel will be attending an ethics course at Johns Hopkins University. |
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May 2, 2012 In Texas, there's a growing fraternity of "Exonerees" - men found wrongfully convicted of crimes and set free - who help other newly released men rebuild their lives, by finding them a place to live or helping them get a driver's license. |
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May 2, 2012 Seems like everybody wants to get into the act - the other guy's act that is. For more than three decades, Swedish based IKEA has been selling home furnishings to American consumers. Now, they could soon be more famous for their meatballs. |
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May 1, 2012 We've been hearing a lot about the extent of college student loans and the debt associated with that. And, finding a job to help pay that off may be difficult. Of course, not all young people go to college or even want to. |
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May 1, 2012 A new study finds that bringing your dog to work can make you feel better and work better all day long. The study was done at Virginia Commonwealth University - by a professor named "Barker," believe it or not: Professor Randolph Barker. |
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May 1, 2012 One thing that surprised our CBS News colleague Steve Hartman when he started revisiting places Charles Kuralt reported from "On The Road" was how many of the people who were there then are still there: for example, the Cadillac Ranch. |
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May 1, 2012 Believe it or not, there are some jobs that went overseas that are now headed home. Take GE's Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky - where they're now making a new water heater, the first new product to be made at that facility in 50 years. |
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Apr 30, 2012 Nobody in Washington - no politician - will say they want the interest rates on subsidized Federal student loans doubled. That raises other questions: Why have college tuitions and fees skyrocketed - and where does all that money go? |
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Apr 30, 2012 The total debt owed on student loans in this country now exceeds all credit card debt: a trillion dollars and counting - all this in an economy struggling to create jobs for all these students, with all that debt. |
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Apr 30, 2012 Robert Caro has now written four books about the same man, with a fifth yet to come. Our CBS News colleague Rita Braver interviewed Caro about Lyndon Baines Johnson, the larger-than-life 36th President of the United States. |
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Apr 30, 2012 Robert Caro - whose fourth book about President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a massive volume entitled "The Passage of Power" - has been so focused on LBJ for three decades now that our CBS News colleague Rita Braver couldn't help but ask him... |
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Apr 27, 2012 Iran's setbacks with its nuclear enrichment program could have been because of cyber attacks - by us or by somebody else. And yesterday, Congress was told there's a distinct possibility that Iran might wage cyber warfare against us. |
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Apr 27, 2012 The NFL draft is under way - the early round picks must feel as if they've won the lottery. For some, it's the beginning of a career of fame and fortune. But, fame and fortune can slip through your fingers like a dropped forward pass. |
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Apr 27, 2012 When heart tissue is damaged by a heart attack, it has a very limited ability to regenerate and form new tissue. But a team at Duke University has found a way of programming the damaged heart to form muscle tissue, instead of scar tissue, in a mouse. |
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Apr 27, 2012 High performance sports cars can do things nothing else can quite match. One thing they can do - and all too often - is disappear. And once they're gone, lots of luck ever getting those stolen and smuggled cars back. |
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Apr 26, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments on whether Arizona's immigration law is constitutional. You can't always tell from Justices' questions how they'll vote. Their decision is expected in June, amid the presidential campaign. |
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Apr 26, 2012 During the time that Arizona was deciding it needed to do something to restrict illegal immigration from Mexico into their state, things were happening on the ground: fewer Mexicans were coming into the United States than before. |
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Apr 26, 2012 There's a lot of talk right now about student loans - and the interest rates for them. But the decision to take out a student loan - whatever the rate - is made when a person is very young, and doesn't really realize the consequences. |
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Apr 26, 2012 In parts of Los Angeles, there are signs of life in the housing market. The bidding wars and the "flippers" are back: investors who buy houses in foreclosure, fix them up and sell them. Take, for example, the Highland Park area of L.A. |
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Apr 25, 2012 With financial and other backing from Silicon Valley titans like Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt - and filmmaker James Cameron, who produced Titanic and Avatar - a company has been formed to get what we need from asteroids. |
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Apr 25, 2012 Our CBS News colleague Steve Hartman has been retracing Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" journeys and visiting some of the people Kuralt visited - including a Nebraska lawyer named Stephen Potter, whose claim to fame was at football games. |
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Apr 25, 2012 With summer just around the corner, the 50 billion dollar a year beer industry has some new ideas on tap. Thirty-seven years after the first light beer was poured, the industry may be grasping for a new identity. |
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Apr 25, 2012 There's a sport gaining popularity in Europe called "chessboxing" - which, as the name suggests, is a combination of boxing and chess. Our CBS News colleague Mark Phillips, who's based in London, saw a match firsthand... |
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Apr 24, 2012 What's a hospital going to charge you for a surgical procedure? The answer is: You never know. A study looking at the price for an appendectomy in California found the costs for that procedure were all over the place. |
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Apr 24, 2012 Nine months ago, authorities in the L.A. area were afraid there'd be colossal jams when they had to shut down a ten mile stretch of the busy 405 Freeway. While "Carmageddon" didn't happen then - now, nine months later, something else is. |
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Apr 24, 2012 Nevada has the highest jobless rate in the country - 12 percent - and one of the highest foreclosure rates. But now, in the northeastern part of the state, the gold mines are booming - and prospectors are pouring in, looking for work. |
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Apr 24, 2012 Some new medical technologies are so expensive that patients would sometimes rather endure the pain than pay for the treatment. Now, an old and relatively cheap technology - ultrasound - is being used to diagnose and treat arthritis. |
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Apr 23, 2012 The United States may be declining from our number one status in some respects - but, there's one area where we've become number one: we incarcerate a greater percentage of our population than any country on Earth. |
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Apr 23, 2012 Are you a consumer? Of course, you are. Well, in our role as consumers, we're feeling pretty secure right now - according to Bankrate.Com. But if the consumer has a job, he may not be as comfortable a consumer as he was last month. |
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Apr 23, 2012 Scientists in France have determined that baboons can tell whether a four-letter printed word in English is really a legitimate word - or, just a random four letters that don't mean anything in particular. Science marches on! |
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Apr 23, 2012 It's been six-and-a-half years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Now, actor Wendell Pierce and his boyhood friend, Troy Henry, have teamed up to fight "food deserts" - where people are at least ten miles from a grocery store. |
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Apr 20, 2012 Warren Buffett's son Howard Buffett is well known for his anti-hunger efforts overseas. And yesterday, he announced a huge program in conjunction with ADM, the food processing giant, to help fight hunger in America's heartland. |
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Apr 20, 2012 For kids and adults who engage in contact sports, there's more concern than ever about concussions. A study of professional fighters out this week shows three parts of the brain begin to shrink after years of repeated blows to the head. |
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Apr 20, 2012 The French are known for their great cuisine, but they also have a dirty little secret: they love McDonalds - 'McDo,' as they call it. And that's why the folks at the Golden Arches in France have now rolled out the "McBaguette." |
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Apr 20, 2012 Scientists and engineers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland have come up with a technology that can kill those hospital "superbugs" - turn them off like turning off a light ... although they do it by turning on a light. |
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Apr 19, 2012 Dick Clark died yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 82. From American Bandstand to all those New Year's Eves, he was young when we were young - and managed somehow to stay young as we grew older. He did it on purpose - or so he said... |
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Apr 19, 2012 Would you like to know what 35 years of research studies on the deterrent effect of the death penalty found? The National Research Council looked into that - and people on both sides of the death penalty debate should take note of their conclusion. |
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Apr 19, 2012 We know very little about life on other worlds - but by now, you'd think science would have found just about every form of animal life that lives here in this world. And yet, that is not the case, as cave experts in New Mexico found out. |
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Apr 19, 2012 Every Friday night at one or another of Washington's good restaurants, there's a dinner for amputees and other severely injured members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families - and the gathering has become quite the institution... |
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Apr 18, 2012 Polls show that high on the list of things Americans out there are worried about, and even angry about, is the high price of gasoline. And so, President Obama announced new steps yesterday aimed at strengthening oversight of energy markets. |
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Apr 18, 2012 If you're applying for a job these days, there's one more thing that employers might check out about you before saying the magic words: "You're hired." More and more employers are using social networking sites to research job candidates. |
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Apr 18, 2012 Some researchers at University College London have been looking into a novel way of treating prostate cancer that might transform how men think about it. It uses sound waves, but that's not what's so new about it... |
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Apr 18, 2012 Fishing gear, lines and nets left behind by commercial fishing boats when they pull out of a fishing area are death traps for whales and dolphins that happen to swim by. And that's what got Captain Dave Anderson into the aquatic rescue business. |
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Apr 17, 2012 The U.S. Senate has taken a procedural vote on the so-called "Buffett Rule" - so called, because the multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett remarked that his secretary's tax rate should not be higher than his. What's the Rule all about? |
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Apr 17, 2012 A lot of people across the country are fretting about taxes today - and why not? This is, after all, tax filing day. And a lot of us feel as if the poor taxpayer is about the last person that anybody in Washington is thinking about. |
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Apr 17, 2012 A new Japanese study of biodegradable stents - which slowly dissolve after keeping an artery open for angioplasty - says that over a 10-year period, they appear safe and not to increase the risk of heart attack. And so, what's next? |
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Apr 17, 2012 Most of the animal feed for commercially raised livestock is based on fishmeal - but the world's fish stocks are diminishing. And in South Africa, one scientist and businessman is betting on another source, called "MagMeal." |
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Apr 16, 2012 Tomorrow is income tax deadline day. It would have been yesterday, but yesterday was Sunday. It would have been today, except that today is Emancipation Day in Washington. But tomorrow, both we and the IRS will have run out of excuses. |
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Apr 16, 2012 Top campaign advisors for President Obama and Mitt Romney were on Fox News Sunday - interviewed separately, but they went over the same ground - with competing storylines on how they want voters to think about where the country stands now. |
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Apr 16, 2012 Brewster Kahle loves books, although the technology that made his fortune now threatens the printed word as we've known it. But our CBS News colleague John Blackstone says Kahle is a man with a goal: store one copy of every book ever published. |
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Apr 16, 2012 Some are born loving Fenway Park. And some people have Fenway thrust upon them. Our CBS News colleague Mo Rocca had Fenway Park thrust upon him in a rather different way: he was assigned there to cover this week's centennial in Boston. |
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