On April 27, 1817, Jane Austen sat down and wrote her will, leaving almost all of her assets--valued at less than 800 pounds sterling--to her sister Cassandra. In May, the sisters moved to Winchester, England, so the bedridden Jane would be near her doctor. On July 18, only a few days after dictating 24 lines of comic verse to Cassandra, Jane died.
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In 1984 the Hatch-Waxman Act made it cheaper and easier to put generic versions of a drug on the market. As a result of the expedited approval process, generics now make up more than 60 percent of prescription drugs sold in the U.S. and have saved the health care system $734 billion between 1999 and 2008 alone
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Everyone at my company understands that the next sale begins when the customer says yes, and making that sale is part of their job.
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New research shows only 1% of kids between 10 and 17 have shared explicit images online or on phones, far fewer than parents feared
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Read More »Amazon’s Kindle Fire Blazed Through An Army Of Androids
The new tablet from Amazon is selling like crazy, and plenty of people are calling it a threat to the iPad. But the real story is how it flipped the script on the many makers of tablets running Google's operating system.
Read More »Should you lie to your kids? Why one mom does
Blogger talks about reactions she receives from other parents about lies she tells her kids; Child psychologist weighs in
Read More »Gossip Shapes What We See
Gossip can act as a useful social shortcut--it lets you know whom to avoid without your having to learn a person’s faults the hard way. And gossip may also influence whether you notice someone in the first place, according to a study published in Science on June 17. To test whether gossip affects visual awareness, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and her collaborators took advantage of a phenomenon called binocular rivalry.
Read More »Hot chemo baths get a fresh look in cancer fight
Once seen as too invasive and risky, clinical trials are up for procedure which floods the abdomen with heated cancer fighting drugs
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Bats see with their ears. Which are highly attuned to pick up minute variations in the reflection of the sound pulses they use to echolocate. Here are some pulses, slowed down.
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Alternative medicine is not so alternative these days, as four out of 10 adults are now turning to natural remedies to help with certain health problems.
Read More »3 Ways To Respect The "Co" In Consumer
When we look back at 2011, many will remember it as the year of the Occupy Movement, as the representation for the 99% found their voice, aiming to bring about change by influencing the controls of economic wealth and political power. Meanwhile, earlier in the year, Professor Michael E
Read More »Love dilemmas: My husband won’t initiate sex
A TODAY.com panel answers relationship questions from readers in our weekly advice column.
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