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Video: Boston hospital trains workers up from within

Boston's Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center is one of three hospitals in the city testing a new program to help lower-level workers earn a degree free of charge. Seth Doane reports on the hospital's program that trains up from within.

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‘Master switch’ for obesity, diabetes found

Scientists have found that a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol is a "master switch" that controls other genes found in fat in the body, and say it should help in the search for treatments for obesity-related diseases.

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Why Bayes Rules: The History of a Formula That Drives Modern Life

Google has a small fleet of robotic cars that since autumn have driven themselves for thousands of miles on the streets of northern California without once striking a pedestrian, running a stoplight or having to ask directions. The cars’ ability to analyze enormous quantities of data--from cameras, radar sensors, laser-range finders--lies in the 18th-century math theorem known as Bayes’ rule.

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McDowell stumbles but still leads

Graeme McDowell leads the Players Championship by one stroke heading into the final round Sunday. It set up what could be a dynamic finish, with so many top players on a course where anything can happen at any minute.

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Video: Reincarnation alive and well in today’s culture

The concept of reincarnation is some three thousand years old, but it's not simply a thing of the past. As Susan Spencer reports, the idea that we've lived before and that we'll live again is alive and well in American pop culture today.

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America’s Climate Choices Are Narrowing

In 1959 physicist Gilbert Plass warned in Scientific American that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was causing climate change. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson warned Congress of the risk . In 1979 the U.S

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No big moves at stormy Sawgrass

Nick Watney birdied his first two holes and Graeme McDowell joined him atop the leaderboard at The Players Championship on a short day of work at Sawgrass. Play was stopped for 4 1/2 hours because of storms, and the third round will be completed Sunday.

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