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When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said recently that a "gang of four" rules today's tech industry, he notably left out Microsoft, arguing that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook control the landscape. Here's why he's wrong. The parallels between Microsoft and Facebook have always been strong.

The First Tee is launching an ambitious campaign to raise $100 million and reach an additional 10 million children.

America gets an F for Fat, according to newest obesity report that shows dramatic increase in obesity rates

The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five is greater education for women. In all countries worldwide, whether females increase schooling from 10 years to 11, say, or two years to three, infant mortality declines , according to a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington

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And it has made close to $6 billion in revenue from app sales.

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The brain usually has a pretty good idea of what is part of the body and what is not--although the classic rubber hand illusion can convince people to adopt a fake hand as their own when one of their real hands is hidden from view. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have added a strange new twist to this experiment, persuading volunteers to believe that they have three hands rather than two. The psychologists accomplished this sensory legerdemain by placing a false rubber right hand next to the subject’s real right hand and covering both with a cloth from the wrist up (to obscure which one was connected to the body)

Canadian sports doctor not licensed to work in U.S. pleads guilty to bringing unapproved drugs into country, faces prison

NASA's shuttle program, set to make its final flight later this week, has resulted in the death of 14 astronauts. But it could have been a lot worse.

Anthony Kim has become the third American to accept a late entry into next week's British Open, replacing the injured Tim Clark in the field for the year's third major.

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For years health officials have thrown money at ways to prevent young children from dying, with little global data on effectiveness. Recently a pattern has emerged: mortality drops in proportion to the years of schooling that women attain