Armed with hand grenades, a revolver, and an assault rifle, a man once convicted for illegal weapons possession and drug offenses attacked crowds of Christmas shoppers in the Belgian city of Liège yesterday, killing at least three and injuring mor…

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Hemophilia is a genetic blood disorder in which clotting ability is impaired, resulting in excessive bleeding. The second most common form of the disease, hemophilia B, is caused by a deficiency of coagulation factor IX and is treated with infusions of…

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Many parents would shudder at the idea of giving their kids cookies or Twinkies for breakfast, but if they believe that allowing them to have certain sugary cereals is any better, they should think again. A study of breakfast cereals found that 44 vari…

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I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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Women whose job schedules are irregular and include both day and night shifts may be at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The longer women maintain a schedule that rotates through day and night shifts, the greater the risk becomes. Research…

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If the current bedbug problem has taught us anything, it is that without harsh and often dangerous chemicals, we are at the mercy of many pests. Early humans could perhaps teach us a thing or two about repelling insects. Ancient bedding discovered in a…

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There are two sorts of beauty, one of the mind, the other of the body; that of the mind displays and exhibits itself in intelligence, in modesty, in honorable conduct, in generosity, in good breeding…and when it is this sort of beauty…that is the a…

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A shooting yesterday at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the deadliest shooting rampages in US history, sparked a four-hour campus lockdown while police searched for the gunman. According to reports, shortly after noon on Thursday, a man wa…

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According to a recent study, far fewer US teens are sexting—sending or receiving sexually explicit text messages—than previously thought. Just 10 percent of minors ages 10 to 17 reported appearing in, creating, or receiving sexually suggest…

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The Ebola virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic fever, has no cure and kills up to 90 percent of the people it infects. Though few people contract Ebola each year, and only around 1,200 people have died from it since it was first identified in 1976, t…

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Over the weekend, bomb squads in Germany successfully defused two World War II-era bombs that were discovered in the riverbed of the Rhine when water levels dropped to record lows last week. Since about 12 percent of the bombs dropped on Germany by the…

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Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.

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More than 10 years after they were discovered, elements 114 and 116 are finally getting names: flerovium, atomic symbol Fl, and livermorium, atomic symbol Lv. The former was chosen in honor of Russian physicist Georgiy Flerov, whose name graces the Rus…

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Britain’s Go vernment Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), an intelligence agency responsible for electronic surveillance operations, is using an unusual method to recruit potential candidates—a web-based code-breaking competition. Potential appli…

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The soldier never becomes wholly familiar with the conception of his foes as men like himself; he cannot divest himself of the feeling that they are another order of beings, differently conditioned, in an environment not altogether of the earth.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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Engineers—inspired by sea creatures like starfish, which lack hard skeletons and use a system of fluid-filled tubes to get around—have developed a soft, pneumatically-driven robot that can change its gait to navigate different obstacles and…

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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

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