 Ford feature will let parents set limits for teens October 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it. | |
Unclear how much pounding new hips, knees can take October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- One in 75 patients who gets a knee or hip replaced must get it replaced again within three years, new research finds, although the studies underscore a question: Just how much pounding can a new joint take if you ... | |
 EBay cutting 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of work force October 06, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about ... | |
SAP says business turmoil hurting its revenue October 06, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Shares of SAP AG plunged Monday after the business software maker said it saw a sudden drop in business at the end of September as global financial turmoil escalated. | |
China vows overhaul of 'chaotic' milk industry October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- China's Cabinet vowed a complete overhaul of the scandal-ridden dairy industry Monday, pledging to inspect every link from the farm to the dinner table to try to restore public trust in Chinese-made food products. | |
Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it? | |
 3 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and cancer October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly ... | |
Doctors: No hamsters or exotic pets for young kids October 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets - or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter - because of risks for disease. | |
 Recordings aim to capture calls of the wild West October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Rattlesnakes aren't to be trifled with, but if you're trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn't a luxury you can afford. | |
Jump seen in staph-linked flu deaths in kids October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- More children have died from flu because they also had staph infections, according to a new government report that urges parents to have their kids get the flu shot. | |
Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. | |
 Tainted Cadbury chocolate found in Hong Kong October 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Hong Kong said Sunday it found two Cadbury chocolate products contained considerably more of the industrial chemical melamine than the city's legal limit in a growing scandal over tainted food made ... | |
Salmonella sickens people in 12 states October 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning. | |
Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat October 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Laura Gadd pauses at the edge of a pristine savanna, delicately lifting her feet to avoid trampling any venus flytraps hidden underfoot. | |
Medicine award kicks off Nobel Prize announcements October 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Two scientists who have won acclaim for research into the growth of cancer cells could be candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine when the 2008 winners are presented on Monday, kicking off six days of Nobel announcements. | |
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