October 2011
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WatchJoseph Gordon-Levitt on Jon Stewart, 1999. Babies!
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An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer →
gothiccharmschool:
This is flat-out AMAZING.
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chimoltrufia:
PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ludwig, then 65, a retired corrections officer from Bridgeton, N.J., felt his life draining away and...
Saudi king allows women to vote in local elections →
Saudi King Abdullah announced Sunday that the nation’s women will gain the right to vote and run as candidates in local elections to be held in 2015 in a major advancement for the rights of women in the deeply conservative Muslim kingdom.
In an annual speech before his advisory assembly, or Shura Council, the Saudi monarch said he ordered the step after consulting with the nation’s...
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WatchBy Chris Jansing, NBC News
As a reporter you never know which story or which person will strike a chord with viewers. In the case of last week’s devastating numbers on poverty in America – it was both.
We profiled a Florida family caught in an economic vise: parents who lost their jobs, a home in foreclosure, two teenagers wondering if they’d be able to stay in Florida, not knowing if...
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle →
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where — exceptionally in scientific publishing — both gamers and researchers are...
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