Twitter reveals how Higgs gossip reached fever pitch Anyone who fondly remembers the heady days of excitement preceding the Higgs boson announcement last year can now relive the experienceVibrating navigator shows cyclists the way A buzzing GPS-fuelled belt that tells cyclists when to turn might help them keep their eyes on the road and save livesCall off the pregnancy police - women want the...
Israelis vote in elections seen swinging to the right
Labels: Technology JERUSALEM: Israelis vote Tuesday in a general election expected to return Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to power at the head of a government of hardline right-wing and religious parties.The ballot to choose Israel's 19th parliament is likely to usher in a government that will swing further to the right, undermining the chances of a peace deal with the Palestinians and raising the prospect...
3 Americans killed in Algeria
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: 7 Japanese are confirmed dead, 3 are unaccounted for, a Japanese minister saysNEW: An Algerian official says the gas plant will reopen and foreign workers will return In addition to 37 confirmed dead, 5 hostages are unaccounted for, Algeria's leader says The militants, who were of eight nationalities, came from northern Mali(CNN) -- At least 37 hostages died in the terrorist seizure...
Anticipating Obama's coming immigration push
Labels: Health (CBS News) MESA, Arizona - In his inaugural address Monday, President Obama touched only briefly on immigration reform. But in the next few weeks, he is expected to propose changes that would put millions of illegal immigrants on the path toward U.S. citizenship. It could be one of the biggest challenges in his second term. "We need this president to push as hard as he can, because Latinos care...
Obama's 2nd Term: Whose Time Is 'Our Time'?
Labels: Business Jan 21, 2013 12:50pm Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty ImagesANALYSIS By RICK KLEINPresident Obama used a brief pause in the partisan warfare that’s scarred his time in office to return to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, with his own declaration of urgency and a call to action that reflects shared sacrifice and responsibility.This was no centrist conciliator. It...
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Quadruple DNA helix discovered in human cells
Labels: World Sixty years after James Watson and Francis Crick established that DNA forms a double helix, a quadruple-stranded DNA helix has turned up. Quadruple helices that intertwine four, rather than two, DNA strands had been made in the laboratory,...
President Tan confident US will steer world out of uncertainty
Labels: Technology SINGAPORE: President Tony Tan Keng Yam has said he is confident that the United States will be able to rise to the occasion of steering of the world out of economic uncertainty, under the leadership of President Barack Obama.In a congratulatory letter to President Obama on his inauguration for a second term in office, President Tan noted that during his first term, the US averted a financial...
Tale of two terms: Unfinished battles
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MLK's "content of character" quote inspires debate
Labels: Health "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." This sentence spoken by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been quoted countless times as expressing one of America's bedrock values, its language almost sounding like a constitutional amendment on equality. 20 PhotosMartin...
Sasha's View: 'Good Job, Daddy. You Didn't Mess Up'
Labels: Business President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden today officially embarked on their second term, taking the Constitutionally mandated oath of office in two separate private ceremonies inside their homes.Shortly before noon in the Blue Room of the White House, Obama raised his right hand, with his left on a family Bible, reciting the oath administrated by Chief Justice John...
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