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Sooner or later most of us suffer deep grief over the death of someone we love. The experience often causes people to question their sanity--as when they momentarily think they have caught sight of their loved one on a crowded street

My first entrepreneurial venture was Your Career Is An Extreme Sport, a career-advice book I wrote in 2007. In addition to reporting and writing the book, I was pretty much solely responsible for promotion, marketing and sales. (The publisher handled distribution.) I did just about everything wrong that time around.

The Oxford English Dictionary (hereon "OED", for simplicity’s sake) offers several alternative definitions for the term pride . Almost none of them are positive. For present purposes, let’s skip the more obscure leonine variant--and in fact, a "pride of lions " may actually have its etymological roots in the symbolic representation of this animal during the Middle Ages for the biblical sin--and instead turn our attention to the rather slippery semantic aspects, since there’s a lot encapsulated by this peculiarly bipolar word.

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Today, Steve Jobs unveiled tons of new features-- Twitter integration, iOS 5, iCloud --but what many Apple fanboys are talking about instead are the number of apps that Apple appears to be co-opting.

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By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia. [More]

Two new studies report dramatic progress in treating advanced melanoma and lung cancer. Both treatments use an approach that is creating a lot of excitement among doctors - tailoring drugs to the genetic make up of individual patients. Dr.

"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC conference today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud." Apple revealed its long-awaited cloud sharing and sync service today, iCloud. Far more than a way to back up files to a distant server, iCloud is integrated across Apple desktops and mobile devices to ensure that all of your computers can synchronize contacts, calendars, email, apps, music, photos, and more

The source of the deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe that has infected more than 2,100 and killed at least 22, is still a mystery.

Twitter is deeply integrated into the upcoming code refresh for iPhones and iPads, iOS 5, Apple announced today. One-touch tweeting is a handy kick for Apple's social networking plans, but potentially a massive strap-on rocket booster for Twitter . As part of the keynote address at WWDC 2011 Scott Forstall, head of iPhone software development and a potential successor to Steve Jobs himself, revealed 10 new features of the 5th generation operating system for iPhones and iPads

Colin Montgomerie could miss the British Open for the first time in 22 years after finishing last in a qualifying event on Monday.

Prices so low, Apple must be INSANE! Or, more likely, they're hooking a whole new world of users with bargain basement prices on OS Lion and iCloud while planning to charge them later for add-ons and premium features. The most important thing Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday had nothing to do with new software features or services.

By Priya Shetty of Nature magazine South African teenagers could pocket as much as 2,700 rand (US$400) over the next 18 months in exchange for staying HIV-free.

Survey finds gay, lesbian, bisexual teens more likely than straight teens to smoke, drink, attempt suicide