Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

By Timothy Gardner and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas pipeline cleared a major obstacle on Friday with the release of U.S. State Department review that suggested it would have limited environmental impact

By Timothy Gardner and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas pipeline cleared a major obstacle on Friday with the release of U.S.

From the sidewalk there's almost no evidence that behind the walls of the energy-from-waste plant in Alexandria, Va., an incinerator is burning garbage at more than 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit and providing electricity to thousands of homes.

* Hurricane to land at N. Carolina Saturday, rake up coast * Tens of thousands of coastal dwellers start to evacuate [More]

* Hurricane to land at N. Carolina Saturday, rake up coast * Tens of thousands of coastal dwellers start to evacuate [More]

Ninety-five-year-old Louis Todero hospitalized after walking into swarm of killer bees

Number of obese Americans will jump from 99 million to 164 million, contributing to disease, increased health care costs

The LPGA Tour will use the women's world ranking to determine the final two U.S. players who qualify for the 2013 Solheim Cup.

Salman Khan says he's heading to U.S. for treatment for facial pain condition so severe it's been called "suicide disease"

X-rays can help reveal anything from bombs hidden in luggage to tumors in breasts, but some potentially vital clues might be too faint to capture with conventional methods. Now a new x-ray technique adapted from atom smashers could resolve more key details. Conventional x-ray imaging works much like traditional photography, relying on the light--in this case, x-rays--that a target absorbs, transmits and scatters.

CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton answers health questions from viewers. This week: dementia, allergies and sleep issues.

Report found no link between vaccines and autism, Type 1 diabetes - but found side effects like seizures, inflammation

Scientists say divorce can lead to health problems, but people keep divorcing - especially in some states

The city looms large in the fiction of author William Gibson. In the September issue of Scientific American, Gibson's essay, "Life in the Meta-City," details how cities increase "the number and randomization of potential human and cultural contacts" and how they serve as "vast, multilayered engines of choice." Cities that cease to provide choice--or which try to overcontrol their denizens--lose their spark and sometimes perish. In the interview that follows, Gibson shares his perceptions about existing cities and their links to his fiction.

Anyone in the eastern portion of the U.S. this week who was forced to evacuate an office, home or school following Tuesday's magnitude 5.8 earthquake soon noticed that cell phone service was spotty or, in many cases, nonexistent.