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Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups (AP)

Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.





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School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simple school textbook is used by states to mould loyal citizens, according to a new study.


Young people browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan

Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.


WHO: AIDS leading cause of death, disease in women

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.


Europe and America couldn't be more different, right? Not so fast, says historian

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marshalling data on everything from colon cancer to the accuracy of public clocks, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.


Not a healthy state for all Latinos in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where Latinos are born and their immigration status affect the quality of health care they receive in the US, according to Professor Michael Rodríguez and colleagues from the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and ...


Rethinking sexism: Study examines how society maintains the status quo

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

There is a tendency to think that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a new study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our ...


Portable 3-D laser technology preserves Texas dinosaur's rare footprint

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Using portable 3D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint that was previously excavated and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse ...


Therapy 32 times more cost effective at increasing happiness than money

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester finds that psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money. The research ...


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Earthquakes actually aftershocks of 19th century quakes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- When small earthquakes shake the central U.S., citizens often fear the rumbles are signs a big earthquake is coming. Fortunately, new research instead shows that most of these earthquakes ...


BetOnSports.com founder gets 4-plus years

Technology / Internet

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison, ending a lengthy investigation and prosecution into one of the world's largest offshore sports gambling ...



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