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DURHAM, N.H. February 28, 2011 – Lucrative incentives for executives at the nation's top banks encouraged them to take excessive risks prior to the financial meltdown that the country still is digging itself out of three years later, according to a n...

SMITHFIELD, R.I. February 28, 2011 – Overlooked by the 1980s narrative of a nation that had embraced the Reagan administration's call for social conservatism is the success of a political left that effected change on a number of fronts. Activists th...

Jerusalem, February 27, 2011 -- Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the US have discovered the mechanism whereby dangerous mercury eventually finds its way into the fish we eat from the open seas and oceans. The researchers, Prof. ...

February 28, 2011 - A new analysis has found that supplementing the diet with fish oil may prevent muscle and weight loss that commonly occurs in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the...

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ITHACA, N.Y. February 28, 2011 – Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities to produce liquid ...

DALLAS – Feb. 28, 2011 – Children who are placed with a relative because of mistreatment at home fare better in some areas than those placed in foster care, but they may have a higher risk of substance use and teenage pregnancy. The findings by re...

The Security Council today voted unanimously to impose sanctions against the Libyan authorities, slapping the country with an arms embargo and freezing the assets of its leaders, while referring the ongoing violent repression of civilian demonstrators ...

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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2011 - The 19th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party hosted by Sir Elton John and David Furnish raised nearly $4 million for the fight against HIV/AIDS. The gala, which took place on Sunday, February 27,...