VIDEO: Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own. MELISSA DAHL (MSNBC): When Bill Russell tells people that his severe depression was relieved by shock therapy, the most common response he...
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BRANDON KEIM (WIRED): Their numbers decimated by a virulent and contagious form of cancer, endangered Tasmanian devils are breeding at ever-younger ages. Since it was first reported in 1996, devil facial...
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JULIA PRESTON (NYT): State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa , and have asked the attorney general to bring criminal...
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NPR: Consumer inflation jumped by more in June than at any time in the past 27 years, helping to drive down spending as Americans fought to stay ahead of rising prices and a weak economy, the government...
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DAPHNE EVIATAR: In January of 2008, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, was electrocuted while showering in his Baghdad barracks. His death prompted last week’s congressional report concluding that defense...
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PETER WHORISKEY (WASHINGTON POST): The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely...
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BBC: Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has launched an international fund to protect the Amazon rainforest and help combat climate change. The fund will promote alternatives to forest-clearing...
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ELLEN NAKASHIMA (WASHINGTON POST): Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing,...
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MARTY LEDERMAN: This is not the first Administration to have articulated the view that certain presidential advisers are immune from congressional process: It has been a mantra in Administrations of both...
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CNN: This time last year, Janet Kimani spent her days at school and her nights fighting with her little brothers over what to watch on the family's flickering TV set. Now, she sleeps all day and sells...
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It was a relief to learn about Congress' hearing last week on the prevalence of sexual assault in the military. Considering the alarmingly high rates of sexual assault and increasing findings of post-traumatic...
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The daily litany of human savagery defies comprehension - women and children hacked to pieces; babies sliced out of wombs; young girls kidnapped, raped and buried alive; innocent civilians blown up at...
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McCain’s mid-summer salvo against Obama is about one thing: finding an acceptable way to ridicule him. Note this July 15 piece from the New York Times: What’s so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently...
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A U.S. athlete who overcame the chaos of war in Sudan to become a middle-distance runner in the Unit...
A jury of six military officers today sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to 66 months in pris...
Stocks slumped Thursday as investors eyed reports showing higher consumer borrowing costs, weaker sp...
The young Afghan girl sits in the center of the room, weeping. Using her hand and her blue scarf to ...
A top Los Angeles hospital executive and the operator of a homeless facility were arrested on Wednes...
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Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver is sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison at the first US military...
Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists resume exchanging heavy fire just hours after agreein...
IOC President Jacques Rogge praises Beijing's efforts to cut pollution, saying there is no risk to t...
Pakistan's ruling coalition parties say they will begin impeachment proceedings against President Pe...
A US widow demands to know why a "certifiable" scientist now suspected of anthrax attacks was not r...
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's military is working to "neutralize" rebel forces it said were attackin...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling coalition will move to impeach President Pervez Musharraf on...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted on Thursday to keep the United Nations mi...
GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) militant group on Thursday warned Israel...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A top U.N. nuclear watchdog official began talks in Iran on Thursday aimed at imp...
