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Video: Elizabeth Taylor’s stand against AIDS

Elizabeth Taylor was known for using her star power for humanitarian work, in particular, helping victims of AIDS. John Blackstone looks back at the charitable side of the fallen superstar.

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PGT: Tiger takes solace in Lefty’s Masters win

PGT: Though Tiger Woods is not in perfect form with two weeks remaining before the Masters, he says Phil Mickelson's win in 2010 gives him confidence heading to Augusta.

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Sperm grown in a test tube

By Janelle Weaver Researchers in Japan have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish, a feat long thought to be impossible. [More]

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Your Next Smartphone May Sport a See-Through Solar Power Screen

Now here's an incredible idea : A super-thin transparent screen coating for smartphones that could continuously top off your battery with solar power. The technology is coming out of a small company called Wysips , which has perfected a transparent coating less than 100 microns deep that captures enough energy from the sun to generate electrical power. It relies on the application of super-thin strips of photovoltaic cells laid down on a display screen, and then a precise layer of cylindrical lenticular lenses deposited on top

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Forensic study of blowout preventer in BP oil spill reveals source of leaky pipe-sealing problem

By Tom Doggett and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The failure of the underwater blowout preventer that led to the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by the inability of attached cutting devices to shear and seal the pipe of the leaking well, the U.S. government said on Wednesday.

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Hawaii wildfire threatens protected rainforest

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Specialized firefighting teams Wednesday battled a remote wildfire touched off by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, which has burned some 2,000 acres of national park land. The fire threatens a fragile, protected rain forest, officials said. [More]

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Road Rulz: Teen Driver Safety Tech for Parents

New smartphone technologies target parents worried about reckless teen drivers. The market's so hot, apparently, that even average GPS companies are marketing in this space

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Sign of the times for Tiger

PGT: Tiger Woods says he will feel like the Corey Pavin of his Thursday-Friday pairing with long hitters Dustin Johnson and Gary Woodland at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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