1. Rumors have often swirled that Skype was up for acquisition, and now the latest batch suggest that Google and Facebook are involved in a rival courtship dance around the VoIP firm.
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Expert points to foods most needed by the body at various stages of life
Read More »Trust Me, I’m a Scientist
A friend of mine has long held that a vaccination his son received as an infant triggered his child’s autism. He clings to this belief despite a string of scientific studies that show no link between autism and vaccines. When the original paper on such a link was recently discredited as a fraud, my friend’s reaction was that it will now be more difficult to persuade people of the dangers of vaccination.
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Read More »Upstream Battle: What Is Killing Off the Fraser River’s Sockeye Salmon? [Slide Show]
Gridlocked bridges over the Fraser River are just a part of life for commuting Vancouverites. But the industrialized motif of North America's longest dam-free river belies a rare natural treasure: a sockeye salmon run with a historical average of eight million fish worth over $1 billion.
Read More »Wolves Lose Out to Politics, Removed from Endangered Species List
In an abbreviated, terse press conference on Wednesday, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will propose removing gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) from the endangered species list in the northern Rockies and the western Great Lakes. [More]
Read More »Shoal Creek set for golf major comeback
Fred Couples is a couple of decades older since finishing second in the last major tournament at Shoal Creek, and he has the aching back to prove it.
Read More »Barkley: Tornado damage ‘worst thing I’ve seen’
Alabama football coach Nick Saban says he spends much of his spare time in tornado-ravaged parts of Tuscaloosa.
Read More »Apple’s New iMacs House A Few Secrets After All
Though Apple's taken a pretty conservative line with the hardware refresh for its iMac desktop PCs, it turns out that the guts of the machines harbor some juicy secrets. Apple's brand new iMacs, while having the expected spec bump in terms of raw processor power and graphics capabilities, were about as conservative as you can get in terms of adjusting the actual look and feel.
Read More »Play FarmVille With A Real Farm–If You Dare
Think you've honed your 4H chops with hours of online agriculture? You can now control a real British farm to see how you do. God save the cows
Read More »Buzzing: 13-Year Periodic Cicadas Emerge
The humble vibrato of summer will crescendo a bit earlier this year in the U.S.
Read More »PGT: Sabbatini in trouble for profanity-laced tirade
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Read More »National Day of Prayer observers pray for health, but does God listen?
What does research say about the healing power of prayer?
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