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Free, hi-tech HIV vaccine coming soon
A revolutionary, free and crowd-funded HIV vaccine is in the works. Its creators use a machine learning algorithm to examine the cells of rare individuals naturally immune to the virus to then ...
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10 tech heroes of 2013
In a year of high-profile controversies and failures for IT, people still found ways to use technology to make life better for others. You may recognize some of these folks; others might surprise you.
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Homeless Couple Gets A Home On Christmas Eve, Thanks To Innovative 'Occupy'
By Scott Keyes on December 27, 2013 at 9:22 am " Homeless Couple Gets A Home On Christmas Eve, Thanks To Innovative 'Occupy' Group" CREDIT: NBC 15 WMTV For many couples, the thought of living ...
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Almost 50% of black males, 40% of white males arrested by the age of 23 - study
Nearly half of the African-American men who grow up in the United States are arrested by the time they hit their 23rd birthday, according to a new landmark study that set out to examine biases ...
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West Virginia chemical spill cuts water to up to 300,000, state of emergency
A chemical spill into a West Virginia river has led to a tap water ban for up to 300,000 people, shut down bars and restaurants and led to a run on bottled water in some stores as people looked to ...
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Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo elected to Congress
Camila Vallejo, who helped spearhead Chile's student uprising in 2011, has been elected to Congress alongside three other former university leaders, underscoring a generational shift in the ...
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In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High
Sixty percent of Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed, the high by two percentage points in ...
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Seattle City Councilmember-elect shares radical idea with...
Seattle City Councilmember-elect Kshama Sawant told Boeing machinists her idea of a radical option, should their jobs be moved out of state "The workers should take over the factories, and shut down
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I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program - aka drones - I wish I could ask them some questions. I'd start with: "How many women and ...
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Sign the petition: Keep Radioactive Frack Wastewater off our rivers
I just signed a petition to U.S. Coast Guard: I oppose the Coast Guard's proposal to allow shale gas extraction ("frack") wastewater to be carried on the nation's rivers. Frack wastewater is highly
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Venezuela: The Internet Goes Dark in Táchira
After sixteen days of protests across Venezuela, the Internet went dark in the state of Táchira, reportedly for 36 hours. Twitter users and news sites reported that electricity also appeared to have
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Harvard team successfully reverses the aging process in mice
The aging process - it's undignified, unwanted, and many would say unnecessary. After all, the cells in your body are constantly replacing themselves - why can't they do it without causing ...
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Plowshares Sentencing Shows U.S. Government Afraid Of Peace Activists
The judge rightly acknowledged that nothing would likely deter any of the three from considering future civil resistance actions, but he hoped lengthy sentences might slow down other like-minded ...
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If You Think Only Poor People Need Welfare, Wait Till You See What Really Rich
Narrator: And all this time I thought the world was round. The world is not round. It has edges we can fall from and faces staring in entirely different directions. And I thought the world was huge
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The Broad Consensus Among Activists Across the Country Big Social Change Is
February marks the third anniversary of the 2011 revolt in Wisconsin, the occupation of the state capital and mass protests against the attack on workers. Wisconsin was the largest of the protests ...
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The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested
This could be you, if you knew these jobs were actually available. Via the Air Force Check it out, I'm working on a reboot of The Graduate, set in 2013. Simon and Garfunkel are out, Skrillex is in ...
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Fight Over Minimum Wage Illustrates Web of Industry Ties
WASHINGTON - Just four blocks from the White House is the headquarters of the Employment Policies Institute, a widely quoted economic research center whose academic reports have repeatedly warned ...
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Target's cybersecurity team raised concerns months before hack
Target's security staff may have been aware of vulnerabilities in the retailer's systems months before a massive breach compromised data on millions of shoppers. The Wall Street Journal reports that
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1% Jokes and Plutocrats In Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret
Family Claims NYPD Never Translated Murdered Woman's Warning Ridiculous 2016 Speculation: Cuomo's Twitter Edition Recently, our nation's financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved ...
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Here's What Palestine Looked Like In 1896
The sight of Christians, Jews and Muslims, all living peacefully side-by-side, may make you a little sad. ..
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Is US Supporting Oligarch Coup Attempt In Venezuela?
The misinformation in the United States is because Venezuela is the lynch pin of the movement of Latin America away from US domination. Further, the oligarch class in Venezuela continues to control
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Noam Chomsky Breaks Down the Zombie Apocalypse
Last week Noam Chomsky participated in a question and answer session via Skype with a group of students. When one of them asked his views on America's obsession with zombies, the legendary ...
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VIDEO: Gas Pipeline Ruptures Underneath Raritan River, Shooting Water Into The
Two small geysers erupted eariler today in the Raritan River when a gas line broke. Nick West NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-- A gas pipeline owned by PSE&G ruptured today under the Raritan River, causing two ...
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G-20 Protester's Amazing Statement To Court Before Sentencing
It is only really possible to understand the events that took place in Toronto in the context of the global movement against neoliberalism and the corporatization of the planet. It is my belief that
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That Time Philip Seymour Hoffman Starred in a Political Documentary
Philip Seymour Hoffman slumps in his chair, dressed for a sick day-baggy clothes, knit cap. He lolls his eyes at a TV set that's playing a series of depressing videos from the 2000 presidential ...