Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy Nerve

Seeded on Wed May 23, 2007 10:28 AM EDT (Wired News)

VNS has been used for 10 years to treat epilepsy, where it can cut the number of seizures for some patients by about 40 percent.

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Home prices plunge by most in 35 years - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:23 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

I hate to say I told you so but The housing market correction is in full swing but it probably has another year to go before it bottoms out," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com.

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Bozell's News Column -- The Collapse of Network News -- Media Research Center

Seeded on Fri Aug 4, 2006 12:47 PM EDT (MRC Latest Headlines)

For the last decade or two, the Big Three network news ratings have declined and their once-iron grip on public opinion has loosened, prompting this debate: is this decline merely a sign of increasing 24-7 media availability (cable news, Internet sites) or is the liberal tilt of …

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Listen Up, Bias Mongers! The Audience Doesn't Agree

Seeded on Fri Aug 4, 2006 12:26 PM EDT (cjr.org)

This article is admittely old (2002) but the discussion is still valid, because the public perception of bias in the news remains or has worsened .a Gallup poll in the spring of 1998 asked respondents to judge the bias of seven types of news organizations - ranging from network n …

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Special Edition: BusinessWeek Online's Top 100 Global Brands - Yahoo! Finance

Seeded on Fri Aug 4, 2006 11:10 AM EDT (Yahoo! Finance)

By his own admission Zhao Songwei, 24, is logging far too many hours these days at a sprawling Internet Cafe in Shanghai.

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Scientist thinks invisibility possible in future

Seeded on Tue Aug 1, 2006 8:54 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Dr Ulf Leonhardt, a theoretical physicist at St Andrews University in Scotland, believes the most plausible example is the Invisible Woman, one of the Marvel Comics superheroes in the "Fantastic Four.""She guides light around her using a force field in this cartoon.

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American Journalism Review

Seeded on Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:16 AM EDT (ajr.org)

At the Washington Post's daily 2 p.m. story meeting, editors report on the popularity of stories published on the Post's Web site earlier that day. "What I use it for, personally, is to see what is interesting to the public," Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. says.

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The changing news market, how the daily paper is changing to survive

Seeded on Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:12 AM EDT (ajr.org)

For years, newspapers have treated innovation like a trip to the dentist - a torture to be endured, not encouraged. True, newspapers finally got around to adding color. They shrank stories, hoping that pithier, flashier fare would help attract young people who don't like to read.

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New Child molester legislation: "GPS tracking for life"

Seeded on Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:02 AM EDT (avpress.com)

Prime promoters of Proposition 83 on the November ballot are state Sen.

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A comparison of the dangers of artificial sweeteners

Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:26 PM EDT (dorway.com)

Shugr (Tagatose and Erythritol) Shugr, a brand new sugar substitute, may pose serious competition to the diet products now on the market, although its cost ($10.00 to $13.00 for a 3.4 ounce bottle) may be a drawback, according to Hersey.

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Idaho Observer: Aspartame - The World's Best Ant Poison

Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:59 PM EDT (proliberty.com)

I read somewhere that aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually developed as an ant poison and only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison,

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Senators divided over keeping Bolton at U.N - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:41 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A year after President George W. Bush bypassed the Senate and appointed John Bolton U.N. ambassador on a temporary basis, Senate Republicans and Democrats split on Thursday over whether to keep him there

April Fool's joke sparks strip poker championship - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:31 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

DUBLIN (Reuters) - It started as an April Fool's joke but an Irish bookmaker's proposal to hold the world's biggest strip poker contest will become reality next month

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Partially and Fully Hydrogenated Fats

Seeded on Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:46 PM EDT (lowfatcooking.about.com)

There are two reasons why foods containing hydrogenated oils may be labeled trans-fat free, or list 0g trans fats on the label.

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Hydrogenated and Partially Hydrogenated Oils - Killer Trans Fatty Acids

Seeded on Sat Jul 29, 2006 3:42 PM EDT (recoverymedicine.com)

After closely scrutinizing data from scientific studies and reviews, many European countries have either banned hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils altogether or have instituted future dates for elimination of their use in foods.

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All cars great and small - Jul. 28, 2006 The new sub micro SMART car

Seeded on Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:21 PM EDT (CNN)

The Smart, for those of you who haven't been to Europe in the past eight years, is a Mercedes sub-brand of "micro-class" cars that's currently available in virtually every Western nation except the United States. Saw these things overseas..they are tiny.

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N. Korea says it will bolster nuke program - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:45 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

North Korea will upgrade its arsenal "in every way by employing all possible means and methods" and will greet any aggressors with "all-out do-or-die resistance and unprecedented devastating strikes," Kim Il Chol said, according to the Korean Central News Agency.Kim said such a m …

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TIME.com: Meanwhile, The View From Inside Iran -- Jul 31, 2006 -- Page 1

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:56 AM EDT (TIME)

Iranians like Heydari believe that their country, ethnically and linguistically Persian, should stay out of the Arabs' fight with Israel and focus on improving living standards at home.

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Philadelphia Inquirer | 07/24/2006 | Syria and Iran wouldn't like the West when it's angry

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:52 AM EDT (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

The conventional wisdom is that the United States is so tied down that it can't do much about the rocket attacks on Israel, the blatant sponsorship of terrorists by Iran and Syria, or the Iranian nuclear program.Oil prices are already sky-high.

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran leader's warning to Israel

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:32 AM EDT (BBC News)

Iran helped found the Lebanese-based Hezbollah in 1982, but says it only gives spiritual and political support to the group, not financial aid, training or weapons.

Saddam says he would prefer firing squad - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:17 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

"I was brought against my will directly from the hospital," Saddam told the chief judge. "The Americans insisted that I come against my will.

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Oil-rich Kuwait gives citizens 690 dollars each - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:46 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The OPEC member posted a surplus in each of the past seven fiscal years, totalling more than 50 billion dollars. Kuwait is also headed for record revenues this year.

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