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| Phys Ed How Music Can Boost Our Workouts | | | Making music and not just listening to it while exercising makes the exercise easier, a remarkable new experiment finds, suggesting that the human love of music may have evolved, in part, to ease physical effort. |
| Russia Team Depleted | | | Russia will send an inexperienced team when it faces Italy in the Fed Cup finals next week in Sardinia. |
| Medtronic heart valve found to reduce death, stroke rate | | | (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc's CoreValve heart valve implant significantly lowered death and stroke rates in frail, elderly patients with severe aortic stenosis who were considered too ill for surgery, according to data from a late-stage clinical trial. |
| Smarter cars may stop traffic jams | | | MIT professor Berthold Horn has developed an algorithm that he thinks can be used by cars to better reduce the kinds of traffic slow downs not caused by obvious culprits like accidents or road repairs. |
| Vatican's 'culture minister' tweets Lou Reed song | | | VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's 71-year-old culture minister, paid his own tribute on Monday to the late rocker Lou Reed, tweeting one of his best-known songs before clarifying he was not condoning any reference to drugs some have seen in the song. |
| Polio outbreak in Syria threatens whole region, WHO says | | | GENEVA (Reuters) - Polio has broken out among young children in northeast Syria after probably originating in Pakistan and poses a threat to millions of children across the Middle East, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. |
| Jump-Starter Kits for the Mind | | | Low-level electric current offers promise, and potential perils, as a way to stimulate the brain, but many do-it-yourselfers arent waiting for confirmation. Theyre rushing to buy kits online or hooking themselves to nine-volt batteries. |
| Cirque du Soleil fined in death of acrobat at Las Vegas show | | | (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil has been fined more than $25,000 for safety violations in connection with a fatal accident in which an acrobat dropped 94 feet to her death during a mid-air battle scene during the show "KA" in Las Vegas in June, Nevada officials said on Wednesday. |
| UPDATE 2-Sprint promises higher data speeds than rivals | | | BURLINGAME, Calif., Oct 30 (Reuters) - Sprint Corp promised to gradually offer wireless data speeds far in excess of those offered by bigger rivals like Verizon, as it hopes to use recently acquired wireless airwaves to regain market share. |
| Snipers 'target' moms-to-be | | | Pregnant women, children, even unborn babies are being deliberately targeted by snipers in Syria's worsening civil war, says a surgeon who works to treat their wounds. |
| U.S. F-35 fighter drops first guided bomb against ground target | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet dropped a 500-pound bomb this week, hitting a tank at Edwards Air Force Base in California and marking the first time the new warplane has fired a laser-guided weapon, the Pentagon said Wednesday. |
| WHO Polio cases confirmed in Syria | | | Ten cases of polio have been confirmed among children in Syria, the first outbreak of the disease in that country since 1999, a World Health Organization spokesman told CNN Tuesday. |
| How sharks inspire design | | | Engineers have used sharks as the blueprint for everything from sports cars, to swim suits to antibacterial material. |
| Well Concussions and the Classroom | | | The American Academy of Pediatrics on Sunday released new recommendations regarding students who return to school following a concussion. |
| Cacao fever! Why people pay $6 for a chocolate bar - Felix TV | | | People craving the best ingredients and flavors are changing the economics of chocolate, making it possible for chocolate makers such as Madecasse and Cacao Prieto to produce expensive chocolates, support farmers in the developing world and turn the simple candy bar into an artisanal experience. (November 27, 2012) |
| Lessons on U.S. income gap | | | Income inequality is going up, up, up in America. In Brazil, meanwhile, it's been dropping for years. Likely outcome? A meeting in the middle |
| Big storm, small screen | | | A twisted boardwalk, a glowing carousel flooded with water and a cresting river breaching its banks. Instagram reached saturation as Sandy hit, turning it into a storytelling medium for the superstorm. |
| Obama says takes responsibility for fixing health law web site | | | Oct. 30 - President Barack Obama says he takes it upon himself to make sure the glitch-marred website healthcare.gov, that has made signing up for insurance under his signature health law difficult gets repaired quickly. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| Meet the new Miss World | | | A new Miss World was crowned Saturday, and though she competed as Miss Philippines, she hails from the United States. |
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