News tagged with brother
Italy: 3 brothers suffer heart attacks on same day
Three Sicilian brothers had heart attacks on the same day which killed two of them, while the third was saved because was visiting his mother in hospital, the Corriere della Sera daily said Tuesday.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Time Warner bids 1B euros to acquire Endemol
(AP) -- Time Warner Inc. has made an unsolicited bid to acquire Endemol, the Dutch entertainment giant behind hit reality TV shows like "Big Brother" and "Deal or No Deal."
Nov 05, 2011 |
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Mathematically detecting bubbles before they burst
From the dotcom bust in the late nineties to the housing crash in the run-up to the 2008 crisis, financial bubbles have been a topic of major concern. Identifying bubbles is important in order to prevent collapses that can ...
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's disease: The first prevention study of its kind
Researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in Montreal, Quebec, are about to launch the first epidemiological study on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
Sep 21, 2011 |
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YouTube expands movie rental service to Canada
Video-sharing site YouTube, which has been adding professional content in a bid to generate revenue, announced Thursday it has begun renting movies online in Canada.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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What determines a company's performance? The shape of the CEO's face
Believe it or not, one thing that predicts how well a CEO's company performs is the width of his face. CEOs with wider faces, like Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, have better-performing companies than ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 25, 2011 |
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New research reveals extent of family and sibling bullying
Children who are slapped and shouted at by their parents are more likely to bully their brothers and sisters. Findings from 'Understanding Society', a study of 40,000 UK households funded by the Economic and Social Research ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Gamers griping handheld controls
Even though motion-sensing videogame controllers are all the rage, sometimes a player prefers a Batarang for bashing bad guys.
Jun 17, 2011 |
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UltraViolet lights way to lifetime movie watching rights
Giants from Hollywood, technology and retail are out to rev up digital film sales by letting people buy lifetime rights to watch movies on whichever devices suit their fancies.
Jan 08, 2011 |
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Having brothers delays sexual maturation in women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Perth, Western Australia, investigating the costs of brothers and sisters in contemporary Australian society, have discovered that girls with older brothers tend to start menstruation later, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2010 |
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The essential ingredients of supportive sibling relationships
Many moms and dads say the toughest part of parenting is keeping the peace when their kids squabble and bicker. But making an end to conflict your primary focus is a mistake, said Laurie Kramer, a University of Illinois professor ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 19, 2010 |
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'Mars crew' locked up for 520 days of isolation
Six men from Europe, Russia and China were Thursday locked away from the outside world for the next one-and-a-half years, in an unprecedented experiment to simulate the effects of a mission to Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies
(AP) -- It's the new front in the nanny state: Microchips placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. A pro-privacy group warns in a new report that more than 2.6 million of the chips have ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 05, 2010 |
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Market failure expert says letting Lehman go was good thing
Approaching the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' demise, NJIT Finance Professor Michael Ehrlich, an expert on market failure, says that the Feds made the right move when they allowed the investment firm to go bankrupt.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Polycystic ovarian syndrome: New light on its causes and its effect on brothers
Researchers have found evidence that chronic disease in either a mother or father can create unfavourable conditions in the womb that are associated with the development of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) in daughters. ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 30, 2009 |
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