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Applications for US unemployment aid plummet to 283,000
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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week, a sign that a recent string of strong job gains may continue. Weekly applications for unemployment aid dropped 21,000 last …

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'It's H1N1 pandemic influenza 2009, not swine flu'
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BHOPAL: The disease causing large number of deaths across the country is not the swine flu. It is H1N1 pandemic influenza 2009, a variant of H1N1 endemic strain, which is more harmful. Talking to TOI, principal scientist and director of Bhopal-based …

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Melbourne rehab facility takes holistic approach to ice pandemic
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But one facility treating ice addicts on Melbourne's urban fringe is taking a holistic approach, blending education, work and community living. It's a blueprint organisers hope will continue to be rolled out across the country. They say the real deluge …

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Historical accounts detail wave of flu deaths in Oklahoma during 1918 pandemic
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Instead, they're words that Oklahomans in the last century used to describe what is believed to be the deadliest epidemic in human history: the 1918 flu pandemic. Click here to link to the article at NewsOK. Some stories require an Oklahoman …

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Mohsin Hamid's essays offer a new perspective on Pakistan and 9/11
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No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations." No wonder he dreams of a world that is "post-civilization, and hence infinitely more civilized." Michael Upchurch recently reviewed "The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac" by Sharma Shields …

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DNA on Cleveland woman's missing pants leads police to charge Parma man
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Parma man faces kidnapping charges after a woman told police she woke up in her Cleveland apartment partially naked and couldn't remember much of the previous night. The woman and two of her friends were out in the Warehouse …

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DNA evidence harder to get in California
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When passed, Prop. 47 was aimed at helping lower level criminals get help not jail, but as a consequence, more criminals DNA is not being collected. Show Transcript Hide Transcript. Advertising. Video Transcript. DNA EVIDENCE IS SUPPOSED TO HELP …

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Programmable materials and the nature of the DNA bond
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Nucleic acids are ubiquitous in biology because of their ability to encode vast amounts of information via canonical Watson-Crick base-pairing interactions. With the advent of chemical methods to make synthetic oligonucleotides of an arbitrary sequence …

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FDA Eases Access to DNA Screening for Inherited Diseases
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Federal health officials are easing access to DNA tests used to screen parents for devastating genetic disorders that can be passed on to their children. The surprise announcement offers a path forward for Google-backed genetic testing firm 23andMe …

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Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is being treated for a cancerous tumour on his tongue
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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is being treated for cancer. The band revealed in a statement that singer Dickinson, 56, has a cancerous tumour at the back of his tongue.

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