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Hackers Sell GSM-Ready IPhones on Craigslist, EBay
Hackers cash in by targeting gadget freaks that crave an Apple phone but aren't wild about the prospect of an AT&T service contract. An Essential Regulator Of Body Weight Revealed
Scientists are one step closer to unraveling the complex mechanisms in the brain that regulate body weight. Working with mice -- whose appetites are controlled by systems very similar to those in humans -- they have identified a specific type of neuron that is essential for feeding behavior. Without these neurons, adult mice stop eating and undergo rapid weight loss. Zune Questions Remain
On the eve the MP3 player's release, questions from Wired Newsreaders about its adherence to Creative Commons licenses,susceptibility to Wi-Fi viruses, and use of a comment-happy marketingstreet team go unanswered. In Listening Post. New York State Taylor Law: Negotiating to Avoid Strikes in the Public
Article from 1998 describing the history and operation of New York state's 1967 Taylor Law (Public Employees Fair Employment Act). "The Taylor Law, permits union organizing [by public sector employees], and provides a system within which to resolve labor-management conflict short of striking"and "establishes certain mandatory bargaining issues."From a site maintained by a professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. For Weight Loss In Obese Adults, Lifestyle Modification Plus Medicatio
A new study shows that treatment with a lifestyle modification program of diet, exercise and behavioral therapy when used in combination with the weight loss medication sibutramine (Meridia) resulted in significantly greater weight loss among obese adults than treatment with the medication alone. Aircraft Captures Windy Details In Hurricane's Ups And Downs
Researchers employing some of the world's most sophisticated weather research equipment recently captured details on winds and other conditions in a rapidly intensifying hurricane. This data will help to advance the understanding of these complex storms. Presentation (A13E-0994, Poster) at the American Geophysical Union meeting, December 11, 4:40 p.m. EST. To Elude Bats, A Moth Keeps Its Hearing In Tune
Current understanding of the co-evolution of bats and moths has been thrown into question following new research reported in the journal Current Biology. New Technique Shows Promise For Improved Straightening Of Crooked Nose
A surgical technique offers improved outcomes for straightening the middle third of the nose, a difficult to manage deformity, according to an article in the March issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Which It Is It? Resolving Ambiguous Pronouns: English Teachers Would B
"Medicines can be harmful to young children. Make sure you keep them locked in the bathroom cabinet."This humorous warning demonstrates a common grammatical error - ambiguous pronouns. Most of the time, common sense kicks in and we know we're supposed to lock medication in the bathroom cabinet and not the kids. In other instances, however, the clarification of these phrases is not always so obvious. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedlydelivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind."
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