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How To Be Persuasive

Want to convince with your gift of gab? Sales people are hip to the tricks, stating everything as a question and doing more listening than yapping.

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Players resumes after storm delay

PGT: As the third round resumes, the field left to complete their round – 68 of 74 players who made the cut – will face a different Stadium Course than what it was before the rain delay.

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Hospital-Acquired Infections: Beating Back the Bugs

It is the ultimate paradox of American health care: going to the hospital can kill you. Every year nearly two million hospital-acquired infections claim roughly 100,000 lives and add $45 billion in costs; that is as many lives and dollars as taken by AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined.

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Video: Avoiding medication misuse

Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke with Rebecca Jarvis on the importance of prescription medication adherence and tips for people to make sure they follow doctor's orders.

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Video: Space mission impacts on astronaut families

Retired astronaut Jerry Linenger spoke with Russ Mitchell on what a space shuttle mission is like including the toll it may take on the astronaut's family as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband Mark Kelly prepares to command Endeavour's final flight.

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Sugar Flushes Out Hidden Microbes

Used to be that sick kids got lollypops after a visit with the doctor. But in some cases candy can be more than a reward--it can be part of the therapy. Because scientists have found that, in battling chronic infections, sugar can boost the effectiveness of antibiotics

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David Toms shoots 68, leads Watney by 1 shot

David Toms has gone five years without winning, and 10 years since his lone major at the PGA Championship. Now he has to fend off a host of players who have won big events a lot more recently.

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That Sinking Feeling: How Can Flood Protection Be Improved? [Slide Show]

Rain continues to fall (as it has for the past month) in record-breaking amounts across the middle Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, swelling the two waterways and their tributaries. As some residents evacuate and others await word on whether they must flee, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering its increasingly limited options for containing a major catastrophe already washing away homes and farmland

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Social Media’s Sticky Role In Anti-Israel Uprisings

After a page calling for a mass march by Palestinians on the borders of Israel on May 15 was taken offline by Facebook, mirror sites with more than 3.5 million followers sprung up. Now Egyptians are preparing to march on Gaza and the Israeli military is threatening to crush protests. Will the so-called "Facebook Intifada" tip the Middle East into further turmoil

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