Obama praises health industry's vow to cut costs(AP)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 11:30pm
 AP - Barack Obama praised the health care industry's promise to cut$2 trillion in costs over 10 years Monday, taking a sharply different course than President Bill Clinton did 16 years ago in an opening bid to overhaul the U.S. health system.
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Shuttle to the Hubble : The US space shuttle Atlantis lifts ...
Monday, 05.11.2009, 11:24pm
 (AFP) - Shuttle to the Hubble : The US space shuttle Atlantis lifts off at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the final shuttle mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (AFP/Stan Honda)
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Shuttle blasts off to repair Hubble Telescope(AP)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 11:09pm
 AP - Atlantis blasted off Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope on the most delicate and dangerous repair job ever in orbit—a mission so risky that for the first time a second shuttle stands ready to rescue the seven astronauts if something goes wrong.
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Study: Bad boy doesn't always get the girl(AP)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 10:05pm
AP - Apparently the bad boy doesn't always get the girl. At least in a South American tribe with the highest known murder rate, it turns out that the most aggressive guys end up with fewer wives and children than milder men, according to a report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Delta spent $819,566 lobbying government in 1Q (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 07:36pm
Delta Air Lines Inc., the world's biggest airline operator, spent $819,566 in the first quarter to lobby on airline passenger issues and international alliances between carriers, according to a recent disclosure form.
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Critics: WHO slow on generics for swine flu(AP)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 06:48pm
AP - As poor countries face a possible swine flu pandemic with only enough Tamiflu to treat a tiny fraction of their populations, some experts are calling for a simple but contentious solution: massive production of generics.
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Hypothyroidism linked to liver cancer in women(Reuters)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 04:20pm
Reuters - Women with long-standing hypothyroidism, commonly referred to as an"underactive thyroid,"are at increased risk of liver cancer, the results of a new study suggest. By contrast, hypothyroidism is not significantly associated with this malignancy in men.
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Media Advisory: Canadian Museum of Nature : Missing-link Carnivore From Canada's High Arctic Featured in New Extreme ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 12:00pm
An exciting "missing-link" carnivore that recently made headlines around the world after publication in the journal Nature by Canadian scientist Dr. Natalia Rybczynski will be on view in New York City in the Extreme Mammals exhibition opening May 16 at the American Museum of Natural History.
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NXP Propels NFC with World's First Industry Standard Chip (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Monday, 05.11.2009, 10:56am
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands----NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, today unveiled the world's first truly industry standard Near Field Communication controller, delivering a fully compliant platform for handset manufacturers and operators to introduce next generation NFC devices and services.
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