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Immelman leads by 1 at Greenbrier Classic

Trevor Immelman's best round of the year reinforced the former Masters champion's belief that he can regain his top form less than two years after wrist surgery.

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Tiger ready to return

PGT: Tiger Woods, who has been out since May with left knee and Achilles injuries, says he's "feeling fit and ready to tee it up at Firestone next week."

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Physicists Simulate the End of Time in a Maryland Lab

Last October I had an article in Scientific American about what it would mean for time to end--how the world might cease to unfold in a unidirectional sequence of cause and effect. Some processes, for example, could cause time to morph into just another dimension of space . Last week experimenters announced that they have simulated such a temporal calamity in the laboratory

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Gout on the Rise as Americans Gain Weight

The "disease of kings" has now reached the masses. In the past half century the prevalence of gout in the general U.S. population has more than doubled.

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Whole Foods Celebrates, Monetizes Ramadan

Thanks to a new social media-centered marketing campaign, Whole Foods will become the first national retail chain to celebrate Ramadan. Whole Foods has become the first prominent supermarket chain to run a Ramadan marketing campaign--and they're hoping Muslim customers will return the favor as they break fast. Even though Muslims traditionally forego meals during the day, lavish evening Ramadan meals could mean big bucks for the natural foods giant ..

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Project Squirrel

In addition to being interesting animals to watch, squirrels can tell us a lot about our local environment and how it is changing [More]

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Sound Tracking: Harmonics Enable Bat to Focus on Prey Despite Noise

After an echolocating bat locks on to an insect with its sonar beam, it can keep track of its prey despite receiving a slew of echoes from other objects--leaves, vines and so on. How does it separate echoes bouncing off its target from echoes bouncing off the surrounding clutter, especially when the echoes reach the bat at the same time?

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PGT: McIlroy tells commentator to ‘shut up’

PGT: Rory McIlroy showed his temperamental side after blowing an early lead Thursday at the Irish Open, insulting a TV commentator and telling him to shut up via Twitter.

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