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| Two Higgs boson scientists tipped for Nobel prize | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Two scientists who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson - the mysterious particle that explains why elementary matter has mass - are Thomson Reuters' top tips to win this year's Nobel prize in physics. |
| New delays hit Obamacare rollout before October 1 launch | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday announced new delays in rolling out President Barack Obama's healthcare reform, saying small business and Spanish-language health insurance enrollment services would not begin on October 1 as planned. |
| Singapore Looks Below for More Room | | | The city-state is looking at the possibility of an Underground Science City containing 40 interconnected caverns for data centers and research labs. |
| Win a Trip 2013 | | | As Erin Luhmann travels with Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, she reports on malnutrition in Mali, treatments for clubfoot in Niger and the refugee crisis from the conflict in Darfur. |
| Girls flee bombs, start over in U.S. | | | Blair Brettschneider didn't experience war or genocide as a young girl in suburban Michigan. She has never received a death threat, and she has never seen a family member murdered. But the 49 teenagers she helps every week have. |
| Jamie Dimon's house of fines | | | Sep. 26 - JPMorgan Chase still has a cloud hanging over it after attempts by CEO Jamie Dimon to reach a settlement in its legal woes have come up empty so far. Bobbi Rebell reports. |
| BlackBerry plans security feature for Android, iPhone | | | TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry will offer technology to separate and make secure both work and personal data on mobile devices powered by Google Inc's Android platform and by Apple Inc's iOS operating system, the company said on Thursday. |
| Roll Over? Fat Chance | | | More than half the dogs in America are overweight, giving rise to diet and exercise programs. |
| IRS rides 1884 'dead horse' law to defense of tax preparer rules | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday defended its effort to regulate the tax return preparation business for the first time in U.S. history, basing its case largely on a 19th century law dealing with horses lost or killed in the Civil War. |
| M.L.S. Tries to Mute Fans Vulgar Chants | | | Some teams in Major League Soccer have been trying, with mixed success, to stop off-color taunting of opposing goalkeepers that at times is audible over TV broadcasts. |
| East Germany's secret police | | | The sometimes ludicrous disguises and complex surveillance techniques used by East Germany's Stasi secret police to psychologically brutalize the population have been revealed, more than two decades after the fall of the Iron Curtain. |
| Insight How new cancer drugs can skip randomized trials | | | CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) - In 2006 when doctors started testing a melanoma treatment made by Roche Holding AG on patients, they were used to facing slim odds - about one in eight - that the tumors would shrink on chemotherapy. This time, they couldn't believe their eyes. |
| Deadbeat dads get a second chance | | | Marcus Dixon refers to the tattoos on his face as the "art of war" an eye etched on his forehead, five stars down the left side of his face, and the words "don't cry" on his eyelids. |
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