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AP - Toyota unveiled its ambitions for high-tech health care Tuesday, displaying experimental robots that the auto giant says can lift disabled patients from their hospital beds or help them walk.
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was in the hot seat on Monday night, answering questions about allegations of sexual harassment from the 1990s during an interview that aired on Fox News' "On the Record."
Politico first reported on the accusations in question from when the former Godfather's Pizza CEO was serving as head of the National Restaurant Association over a decade ago. The GOP contender, who previously denied any wrongdoing in the alleged incidents, maintained his innocence when pressed on the matter by Fox News host Greta van Susteren.
In coming to his own defense; however, Cain said that because he could recollect certain incidents taking place, that doesn't mean they didn't occur.
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LONDON -- It will be the world's most literary mortuary.
Ten leading crime writers are competing for the honor of having a morgue named after them.
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Make no mistake about it: The struggle between Wall Street and "the 99 percent" is a culture war. It's a war over our values, our beliefs, and rights. That's why Occupy Wall Street has been so wise not to proclaim specific policy demands.
The movement is trying to change the way we view ourselves and our society. That has started a war: a war of communication, a war of education, a war of perception. It's a war to remind us who we are as a people - or better yet, who we would wish to be.
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HONOLULU -- Nicole Leszczynski couldn't imagine that two chicken salad sandwiches would land her and her husband in jail and her 2-year-old daughter in state custody. But it happened five days ago, when the 30-weeks-pregnant woman forgot to pay for her snack while grocery shopping.
"It was the most ridiculous chain of events that happened," she said while sobbing Monday. "It's still hard to believe what happened."
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By TRAVIS LOLLER, The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee officials agreed Monday to stop enforcing a new curfew used to dislodge Occupy Nashville protesters from the grounds around the Capitol.
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At CIA headquarters in Langley, one of the newest artifacts in the agencyâs private museum is a message from a father to his 3-year-old son. The gold-embossed letterhead features a swastika and the name Adolf Hitler.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Up and down the sideline, the Kansas City Chiefs were telling each other the game wasn't over. Didn't matter that Philip Rivers was under center with less than a minute left, and that Nick Novak was poised to kick the winning field goal for San Diego.
The Chiefs have had their backs against the wall enough this season.
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Posted under Technology on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 9:34 pm
AP - Cyber attacks traced to China targeted at least 48 chemical and military-related companies in an effort to steal technical secrets, a U.S. computer security company said Tuesday, adding to complaints about pervasive Internet crime linked to this country.
Posted under Technology on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 9:34 pm
AP - Cyber attacks traced to China targeted at least 48 chemical and military-related companies in an effort to steal technical secrets, a U.S. computer security company said Tuesday, adding to complaints about pervasive Internet crime linked to this country.
Posted under Uncategorized on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Parents often want their children to learn how to be responsible digital citizens. Allowing them access is often the first step.
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KEY WEST, Fla. -- A small jet carrying the owner of NASCAR's top team and his wife lost its brakes and crash landed at a Key West, Fla., airport Monday evening, and the couple suffered minor injuries, officials said.
The Gulfstream 150 aircraft ran off the runway at the Key West International Airport Monday at 7:45 p.m. Rick and Linda Hendrick, a pilot and co-pilot were all taken to Lower Keys Medical Centers. The Hendricks had minor injuries and the pilot and co-pilot were taken in as a precaution, said county airport director Peter Horton.
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Posted under Technology on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Digital Trends - Civil liberty concerns are being raised across the pond as Britain’s largest police force was revealed to be operating a surveillance system which masks itself as a fake phone network. The surveillance technology has the ability to track cell phones, gather data and even remotely shut off devices.
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We have cut SIDS deaths by over 50%. It's an enormous success and cause for celebration, but our work is far from done.
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The U.S. earned improved marks in curbing premature birth rates, according to the March of Dimes' most recent annual report card. This year, the nonprofit gave the country a "C" -- up from a "D" in 2010.
Preterm birth rates fell from an all-time high of 12.8 percent in 2006 to 12.2 percent in 2009, according to the new statistics. That is still well short of the organization's 2020 goal of 9.6 percent, as well as the federal government's Healthy People 2020 goal of 11.4 percent.
"March of Dimes is definitely encouraged by the improvement in the rate of preterm birth, but there's a long road ahead," said Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the organization. Preterm refers to any birth that occurs before 37 weeks, and is a key risk factor for newborn death in the U.S., according to the CDC.
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Posted under Technology on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Digital Trends - Computer maker Acer is rolling out two new all-in-one touchscreen desktop systems just in time for the holiday season, with an eye towards bringing HD media, entertainment, social media, and even some honest-to-goodness computing into family-friendly areas of the home. The Intel-based AZ5 series sport 23-inch HD displays, while the AZ3 series sport 21-inch displays for fitting into smaller areas, along with AMD processors and ATI Radeon graphics.
Posted under Sci/Tech on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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What happens when your sweet little boy... isn't?
That's the question presented by festival favorite indie flick, "We Need To Talk About Kevin," which stars Ezra Miller as a dark, psychotic young man and Tilda Swinton as his beleaguered mother. Her husband, played by John C. Reilly, seems either optimistic or delusional about their son's darkness, complicating even further Swinton's efforts to understand and communicate with Kevin.
The name makes more sense in the context of the film's origin; the Lynne Ramsay-directed flick is based on a 2003 book of the same name by Lionel Shriver, who used the unusual narrative form of a series of letters from wife to husband tell the story.
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An 18 year-old with no credit history and no job walks into a bank and requests a loan to buy a $100,000 condo. What is the loan officer most likely to say?
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Posted under Technology on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Digital Trends - Very similar to the contract renewal announcement out of Netflix earlier today, Amazon has sealed a deal with Disney-ABC Television that brings more content to the Prime Instant video streaming service. Designed to help beef up streaming content before the launch of the upcoming Kindle Fire, Amazon gets access to popular television programs such as Grey’s Anatomy and Lost. Other announced shows include Felicity, Greek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the Disney Channel’s Phineas & Ferb and animated series from Marvel such as X-Men Evolution, Spider-Man, Iron Man: Extremis and Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers. While new episodes of shows currently on the air likely won’t be included on the service until the following season, the deal includes all seasons of the most popular shows.
Posted under Sci/Tech on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 8:01 pm
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Posted under U.S. on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 7:58 pm
AP - The wave of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East that have overturned three governments in the past year have prompted the U.S. government to begin developing guidelines for culling intelligence from social media networks, a top Homeland Security official said Monday.
Posted under Technology on Monday, October 31st, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Digital Trends - According to a report released by the Digital Entertainment Group, Blu-ray sales are up 58 percent during the third quarter of 2011 compared to the previous year. In fact, the amount of money that consumers spend on home entertainment has seen the first increase since the U.S. recession began in early 2008. With a five percent increase over the previous year, a portion of that was driven by Blu-ray sales as well as a 13 percent increase in electronic sell-through. The refers to the amount of digital downloads consumers have made to devices such as gaming consoles, set-top boxes, tablets and smartphones.Â
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BEIJING -- Two moderate earthquakes have shaken China's northwest and southwest regions.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit China's Xinjiang region about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the city of Yining at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, while the other quake struck the region bordering Sichuan and Gansu provinces at 6 a.m. at a magnitude of 5.5.
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Joe Jonas probably didn't expect this when he signed on to tour Europe with Britney Spears.
The pop queen and the solo JoBro performed live at Wembley Arena in London Sunday night, and it's fair to say that purity rings were not being worn on stage. Spears, singing "Lace and Leather," called up Jonas to sit in the middle of the action. Conveniently, right in front of a pole.
From there, the handcuffs came out and the legs went up, and all of a sudden, Jonas was on the receiving end of a bachelor party special. He didn't look all that excited for it, though, to be fair, it's hard to blame him, given the massive audience that was cheering Spears on.
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The shooting death of Danroy "DJ" Henry, a black student at Pace University with no record of criminality or violence, continues to stir controversy on a number of levels that go well beyond this single incident.
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This Halloween, think about what's actually happening to your brain and body when you are shaking with fear!
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Ed Rollins, GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's former campaign manager, had some harsh words on Monday for the Minnesota congresswoman.
Speaking to ABC News, Rollins said that Bachmann has little chance of victory in next year's Iowa caucuses and that she is "out of money and ideas." Rollins elaborates in the full story:
"She's still saying the same things she said in the first the debate. There's no substance. She says, 'I'm going to repeal Obamacare.' But she's been saying that from Day 1. I told her: That's your Tea Party speech, now you have to say what you're going to do next."
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NEW YORK — For CC Sabathia, there's no better place to pitch than Yankee Stadium.
The big left-hander decided to stay with New York rather than test the free-agent market, agreeing Monday to a new deal that adds $30 million and one season to his existing contract, giving him a package that pays $122 million over the next five years.
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