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Street Talk: What Innovations Would Make Cities More Livable? (preview)

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Cell-Phone Paradise Communication is at the heart of the future. A future city would need to respond to people on a personal level

The Bearable Closeness of Being: Why Cities Create Community

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Man with 12 fingers, 12 toes vs. boy with 34 digits

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Extra digits are fairly common, but lead to uncommon lives in some with polydactyly

Muscle fatigue may be all in your head

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HP To Spin-Off PC Division, Facebook Rewards Finding Bugs, iTunes Will Do Cloud Music Streaming

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HP To Spin-Off PC Business . HP has now said that it prefers to spin-off its PC-making division and is considering how it can do this within the current company structure.

U.N. Nuclear Safety Proposals Weakened

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By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Countries with atomic power plants would be encouraged to host international safety review missions, under a draft U.N. action plan that may disappoint those who had hoped for strong measures to prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis. [More]

U.N. Nuclear Safety Proposals Weakened

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The Pitfalls of Positive Thinking

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From superstar athletes to self-help devotees, advocates of positive thinking--imagining yourself succeeding at something you want to happen--believe it is a surefire way to help you attain a goal. Past studies have backed that idea, too, but now researchers are refining the picture. Paint your fantasy in too rosy a hue, and you may be hurting your chances of success.

Doodles And Drawings Help Cement Concepts

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Spa therapies blending high-tech with tradition

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Hyperlocal ingredients, a blend of technology and tradition, and treatments focusing not just on beauty but also on remedying stress and pain are some of the trends turning up at spas.

Failed Star Found In The Neighborhood

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It looks like we have a new neighbor. It's actually been there all along, but astronomers have only now spotted what could be the seventh closest star system to the sun.

Why not eat insects? I’ll give you a couple of reasons

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The above question was posed by Vincent M. [More]

Astronauts May Evacuate Space Station in November, NASA Says

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The International Space Station may have to start operating without a crew in November if Russian engineers don't figure out soon what caused a recent rocket failure , NASA officials announced today (Aug. 29). The unmanned Russian cargo ship Progress 44 crashed just after its Aug.