LONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Feb
27
Wall Street gains on Bernanke comments, S&P above 1,500
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday, with major indexes posting their best daily gains since early January, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke remained steadfast in supporting the Fed's stimulus policy and data pointed to economic improvement. In a second day before a congressional committee, Bernanke defended the Fed's buying of bonds to keep interest rates low to boost...
London Journal: Oxford and Cambridge Battle It Out in Wine-Tasting Contest
Label: WorldAndrew Testa for The New York TimesAt the Oxford and Cambridge Varsity Blind Wine-Tasting Competition, participants must identify 12 unmarked wines by grape, country of origin, region, subregion, vintage and taste characteristics. LONDON — Both teams had filled their rosters with only the most devoted competitors, training for months for this contest, doubtless the most prestigious of its kind in...
Billie Joe Armstrong Comes Clean About Rehab
Label: Lifestyle By Kevin O'Donnell 02/27/2013 at 08:00 PM EST Last September, Billie Joe Armstrong made headlines when, during his band Green Day's performance at the I Heart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas, the rocker unleashed a profanity-laced tirade that took aim at everyone from the concert's promoter, Clear Channel,...
Huge study: 5 mental disorders share genetic links
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — The largest genetic study of mental illnesses to date finds five major disorders may not look much alike but they share some gene-based risks. The surprising discovery comes in the quest to unravel what causes psychiatric disorders and how to better diagnose and treat them.The disorders — autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, bipolar disorder, major depressive...
Feb
26
News Analysis: Now Gathering in Rome, a Conclave of Fallible Cardinals
Label: WorldDmitry Lovetsky/Associated PressSt. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday. Roman Catholic cardinals were gathering at the Vatican amid scandal to choose a new pope. The sudden resignation of the most senior Roman Catholic cardinal in Britain, who stepped aside on Monday in the face of accusations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward priests years ago, showed that the taint of scandal could force a cardinal...
Bobby Brown Sentenced to 55 Days in Jail in Drunk Driving Case
Label: Lifestyle 02/26/2013 at 09:30 PM EST Bobby Brown has been sentenced to 55 days in jail and four years probation in his most recent drunk driving arrest.Brown, 44, was pulled over in Studio City, Calif., on Oct. 24 for driving erratically and was arrested when the officer detected "a strong scent of alcohol." He was charged...
C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the best known and most influential person to carry that title. Koop, a 6-foot-1 evangelical Presbyterian with a biblical prophet's beard, donned a public health uniform...
Feb
25
Video Shows French Family’s Kidnappers Are Nigerian Extremists
Label: WorldLAGOS, Nigeria — A French family kidnapped last week on the Cameroon-Nigeria border appeared on a video posted Monday on YouTube, with one of the hostages and a gunman saying that the family is being held by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. The family members — three adults and four children — are shown sitting on the ground inside a sort of tent made from prayer mats, in...
The Bachelor's Sean Lowe Reveals Final Two
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch The Bachelor 02/25/2013 at 10:30 PM EST From left: AshLee, Lindsay and Catherine Kevin Foley/ABC(3) And then there were two.After three incredible dates in Thailand with the remaining women, The Bachelor's Sean Lowe faced a difficult decision at the end...
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