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Study: Celebrity endorsements do not help political candidates

If you're running for office - and want to shore up support from young voters - you want Hollywood's support, right? Wrong. Two new studies from North Carolina State University show that young voters are not swayed by celebrity ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

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New DVT guidelines: No evidence to support 'economy class syndrome'

New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) address the many risk factors for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clot, as the result of long-distance travel. These risk ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Quantifying climate impacts: New comprehensive model comparison launched

Climate change has impacts on forests, fields, rivers -- and thereby on humans that breathe, eat and drink. To assess these impacts more accurately, a comprehensive comparison of computer-based simulations from all over the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Komen exec quits after Planned Parenthood flap

(AP) -- An executive at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity resigned Tuesday over her support to strip Planned Parenthood of funding, but disputed that she was the driving force behind the ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Czech Republic, Slovakia freeze anti-piracy pact

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said Monday his country would freeze plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after mounting off-and-online protests.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Big jolt to state economy with new tax on cigarettes

A new UCSF analysis has found that a state ballot initiative to increase the cigarette tax would create about 12,000 jobs and nearly $2 billion in new economic activity in California.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Poland freezes anti-piracy pact ratification

Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Facebook surrenders its privacy in IPO documents

Facebook is baring its business soul.The unveiling came late Wednesday when the company that depends on people to share their lives online filed its plans to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Plan to move Argentine meteorite to Germany blocked

An unlikely alliance between the native Moqoit people and leading Argentine scientists has thwarted plans to ship the world's second largest meteorite to Germany as a prestigious art exhibit.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Transgene insects: Scientists call for more open data

While genetically modified plants have already been introduced into the wild on a large scale in some parts of the world, the release of genetically modified animals is still at a relatively early stage. A ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter CEO says blocking policy over-distilled

(AP) -- Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sought to calm the global outrage over the company's new country-by-country censorship policy on Monday, complaining in part that the issue is being treated with the same kind of shorthand ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2


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