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I can help imagining arguments emanating from the back seats on family outings with one sibling blaming another for not pulling their weight but maybe that just my family.


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#Researchers create living human gut-on-a-Chip in an effort to provide a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models,


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"This is as true for individuals with private collections as it is for libraries, museums and other public institutions.

and 8 mm films at high-definition resolutions with sound, the Kinograph makes preserving our cultural heritage much more affordable.


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#Freedom Driver allows man with artificial heart to await transplant at home Heart failure patients awaiting organ transplants normally find themselves anchored to the hospital bed by a washing machine-sized device that keeps blood pumping through their veins.


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and associations will help safely integrate unmanned newsgathering technology and operating procedures into the National airspace system.""While the development will be welcome news for CNN


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#8 ways the Oculus Rift could (eventually) transcend gaming Gamers have been buzzing about the Oculus Rift for a couple of years already

But in the long run we believe the product has the potential to transcend gaming. Let's take a look at eight future uses for the best virtual reality headset.

The Oculus Rift could ultimately transform movies at least as much as it does gaming. Some of the clips in Oculus'demo from CES gave us a glimpse of the jaw-dropping immersiveness that could come from a new VR-focused Hollywood:

or family members who live on the other side of the world. Each person would be sitting in their own living room

We could pretend like virtual reality will only be used for PG family-friendly uses but who would we be kidding?


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with the World Health Organisation warning of an impending"post-antibiotic era"where common infections will once again pose the risk of death,


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or even to promote energy savings in the household. A paper describing the advance appears on the journal Nature Communications l


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and local police will no longer be able to use a federal law that allowed the seizure of assets of people for only believing a crime was committed.

if they so much as believe that property was used in the commission of a crime not after a successful conviction.

And then the onus is on the owners of the property to prove in court that it wasn used for crime,


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and prevent brain cell death if administered immediately after a stroke.##It is crucial to treat ischemic strokes within three hours to improve the chances of recovery.


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domestic violence campaigners have warned. Helplines and women refuge charities have reported a dramatic rise in the use of spyware apps to eavesdrop on the victims of domestic violence via their mobiles and other electronic devices,

enabling abusers clandestinely to read texts, record calls and view or listen in on victims in real time without their knowledge.

A survey by Women Aid, the domestic violence charity, found that 41 per cent of domestic violence victims it helped had been tracked

The Independent has been told of a case where a woman had a conversation she had held with a friend on her mobile played back to her by her partner,

making it exceedingly difficult for their man to know theye being cuckoldedwomen are much more capable of looking you straight in the eye and lying.

Victims of domestic violence routinely have calls and texts secretly read Victims of domestic violence routinely have calls

and texts secretly read (Rex) It adds: lexispy lets you conduct pycalls remotely activating the phone microphone to listen in on its surroundings.


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reveals that the number of college-educated young adults (ages 25 to 34) living within three miles of city centers has risen 37 percent since the millennium.

Adjusted for population growth, total miles driven has fallen for nine straight years. And yet, transit ridership per capita is virtually the same now as it was in 1975.

In response, cities have dished out corporate welfare with abandon. There are anecdotal signs that some jobs will indeed return:

and urban employment is a new culture of city life, where leisure is king and work outside of restaurants,

stores and bars is nowhere to be seen. This shift is particularly evident in formerly mixed-use neighborhoods


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diminish quality of life and do not sufficiently quell pain. The most successful pharmacological approaches for the treatment of chronic pain rely on certain athways circuits involving opioid, adrenergic, and calcium channels.


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such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT SCAN or understanding the shapes of artifacts in a museum.


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out of their homes and diagnosedto help families adjust and give patients higher chance of being taken care of at home.

And a government dementia database allows families to register relatives and receive iron-on identification numbers.

Citizens encountering wanderers with dementia report their numbers to officials, who contact families. To finance this, South korea created a long-term-care insurance system,

socially and economically. t least one family member has to give up workto provide caregiving, said Kwak Young-soon, social welfare director for Mapo District, one of Seoul 25 geographic districts.

families may also lose dementia sufferersincomes. Most families no longer have generations living together to help with caregiving,

and some facilities have long waiting lists, but e can keep building nursing homes, Mr. Kwak said. e call it a ghost.

disease of knowledge and the brain which makes adults become babies. But South korea low birth rate will make family caregiving tougher. feel

as if a tsunami coming, said Lee Sung-hee, the South korean Alzheimer Association president, who trains nursing home staff members,

but also thousands who regularly interact with the elderly: bus drivers, tellers, hairstylists, postal workers. ometimes I think I want to run away,

she told 200 senior citizens interested in nursing home jobs or family caregiving advice. If patients say, good at making soy soup,

Cha Kyong-ho family was wary of getting him tested. ementia was a subject to hide,

which is run by Mrs. Lee, the Alzheimer Association president, for women without sons to care for them.

She said social workers suggested being less effusive to patients so the girlsleaving would be less traumatic:


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nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of istance learningare now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,

families paying $53, 000 a year demand low student-faculty ratios. Colleges and universities that have plunged into the online field,


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said Dan Jaffe, an executive vice president of the Association of National Advertisers, a trade group that represents marketers like Kraft foods and Campbell soup.

Scott Faber, a vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a group that represents food makers,


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The 13-page report describes initiatives ranging from the high-tech (500 officers have received Samsung Rugby smartphones equipped to deliver real-time crime data) to the bureaucratic (new guidelines for recruiting

and maps where crimes occur. The system is already at police headquarters, and will soon be in each precinct and command around the city.

may have been involved in a crime, or have outstanding infractions. The data is stored for an indefinite period,

Besides getting officers to crime scenes, Mr. del Pozo said, a police cruiser should give officers information that helps them make better decisions in the field.##


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although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011.

a National Venture capital Association and Dow jones press release predicts that 2014 will bring further good news for entrepreneurs across several fronts,


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though, starts with a man sitting on a couch. His phone rings. It s a telemarketer for a home security service.##

##The man on the couch tries to claim he s busy, but the telemarketer parries,##I know you re busy,

While the man on the couch might was just sitting there talking, the Avatar agent would have been sitting in the Filipino city of#Jaro Iloilo, staring at an interface.

Only a middle-aged woman named Kimberly, who always wore long-sleeved, cream-colored blouses, managed to sell anything.


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More than 4 percent of households have photovoltaics. Hawaii last year led the nation in the portion of its electricity that comes from solar, with 2. 6 percent.

and the District of columbia##lets households with renewable energy earn bill credits for surplus power delivered to the grid.


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this issue was about the death of obscurity. Any gay person in the homophobic Islamic Republic of Iran who makes their sexuality clear online has forfeited already their own privacy,

and whether they have entered ever a search term that raises a red flag. Anyone up to three degrees of separation from a##person of interest##potentially hundreds of thousands of people per target is open to surveillance.


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two out of three adults haven t gotten the equivalent of a high school education. But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,

##If a child has extraordinary abilities, they can be recognized. With 30 kids in a class, a teacher cannot do it themselves.


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Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is justified not, and they should be avoided##The evidence also has implications for research.


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#Munjal Shah, entrepreneur in residence at Charles river Ventures,#surveyed a thousand peopleabout what super powers they would acquire


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and the Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA)# on the state of the solar power market in the U s..#Without a doubt,


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decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.


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where a drone drops off a package in a family s suburban driveway.####I think from both a tech


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since the first man got bored in class and folded his paper into aerodynamic forms.


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As a result it has managed to identify 1, 500 objects in half a million images and 1, 200 scenes in hundreds of thousands of images as well as making 2, 500 associations.


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In addition to gaming applications, such a device could also allow you to taste dishes on a cooking show.


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#The death of coal in America Train carrying coal to a power plant. The Great Energy Shift is happening in spurts

stick it to consumers and bolster its bottom line,##Rhone Resch, chief executive of the Solar energy Industries Association,


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especially when it comes to mobile gaming. Thanks to the success of#Rovio#and its#Angry Birds#empire,

##Everyone knows that gaming is actually good for neurology and the brain, ##Stubb says.####Long gone are the days where parents tell you to stop.

We re really excited about how the gaming community has taken off here and you can expect more from Finland very soon.##


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Seymourpowell offers up the example of a couple traveling with a child. The father, presumably larger than the rest of the family, could take 20 inches,

the mother keeps the standard 18 inches, and the child takes 16 inches. This simple adjustment gives the father more lateral space than almost#any major airline would offer in economy

at no extra expense to the family. With some economy airlines charging significantly more to sit in an exit row or close to the front of the plane,

it s easy to envisage the second scenario Seymourpowell offers up becoming a reality. Morph s design allows for the central seat to be made as small as 10 inches wide.


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By 2011, he was entrepreneur-in-residence at Polaris Partners. He had adopted just his now 3-year-old Great dane


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Wearable devices already released by Chinese manufacturers include Shanda s Geak Watch,#Qihoo s 360 Child Guard,#T-Watch,#inwatch,


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which were unveiled at the Association of the U s army Expo for the first time last week, are meant for a soldier s personal use, not unlike a walkie talkie,


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since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been#found to contain#over 30%plastic, most of it from packaging.

and schools to teach people about recycling culture and the value of discarded plastic, spreading the Japanese concept ofmottainai,


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#Google hopes to cure death with its new health startup Calico Google is planning to launch a new company with the absurdly ambitious objective of extending our lives. alicois the name of the company

an Google solve death? That, in a nutshell, is the goal of Calico. Sounds like a joke,

or too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking.

and perhaps, ultimately curing death? Page doesn lay out any specific plan. On Google+he says,

llness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology,

or too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking.

to life-threatening diseases that exact a terrible physical and emotional toll on individuals and families.

We agreed that with great people, a strong culture and vision and a healthy disregard for the impossible,

I want to thank several people who have been supportive of this venture, especially Tim cook, Franz Humer, Bill Maris and my family.


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Later the Incas were able to sustain their culture above rain line by collecting dew


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Once calling privacy on the internetno longer a social norm the Facebook mogul pointed out (on a conference call to investors) that privacy would be key to the company s growth.


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In 2006, an Oregon family was found based on text messages. Drones are also already being used in search operations.


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Phil Abram, GM s chief infotainment officer (a job title which does actually exist) is the man responsible for rolling out interactive content and delivery systems for Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac,

It s a safe bet to assume dealers will give the hard sell to families with young children in the backseat


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Although our level of crime is comparable to those of other stable, internally secure, industrialized nations,

Starting in the 1970s with the rise of tough-on-crime politicians and the War on Drugs, America s prison population jumped eightfold between 1970 and 2010.

The common retort is that people of color statistically commit more crimes, although criminologists and scholars like Michelle Alexander have#consistently found no correlation#between the incarceration rate and the crime rate.

Any meaningful discourse on racism, poverty, immigration, the drug wars, gun violence, the mental-health crisis,


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We need to make better use of land, light and logistics for an increasingly urban population.


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and critically important evolutionary history) is why Ekman also discovered that in marriages, once one partner starts feeling disgust for the other, the result is almost always divorce.

Why? Because once disgust shows up the brain of the disgust-feeler starts processing the other person (i e. the disgust trigger) as a toxin.

the brain's pattern recognition has a hair-trigger mechanism for recognizing signs of low-fertility and ill-health.

and hopefully decrease the incredibly high rate of military suicides). At a technological level, Ellie combines a video camera to track facial expressions,

There are about 607,000 social workers in America, 93,000 practicing psychologists, and roughly 50,000 psychiatrists. But, well, with Ellie 2. 0 in the pipeline, not for long.

The first assumption is that social workers, psychologist and psychiatrists are a deep knowledge base, arguably one of our greatest repositories of about human information.


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Mr. Petrone is in his fourth year of a Doctor of Chiropractic program at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.

According to a Canadian Pet Market Outlook report, about half of Canadian households without children own pets.

Free from family-related expenses, their disposable income buoys Canada s growing pet industry, valued at $6. 6-billion in 2013 and expected to reach $8. 3-billion by 2018, the report states.

a family sociologist at Simon Fraser University. I would definitely say it supports a lot of the broader trends we re seeing with respect to young people delaying their own family formation,

she says. The average Canadian man now gets married at 31, the average woman at 29.

Nancy Jelenic, owner of Barking Babies, a high-end dog boutique in Vancouver, says 10-20%of her clients are young singles,

An Ipsos Reid survey found eight in 10 Canadian pet owners consider their pet to be a family member

In Vancouver, one woman told reporters last month she was taking what she calledmaternity leave for her new puppy.

Tanya Oliva used her paid vacation to care for herfour-legged child. It s kind of a good idea that people are wanting to have this closeness with animals,


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300-plus newspapers in the nation tumbled 55%from $46. 2 billion in 2003 to $20. 7 billion in 2013, according to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA.

The NAA reported that a collective 161 million unique individuals visited the digital media of all the newspapers in the land in March, a number equal to two-thirds of American adults.

The circulation decline means that only a quarter of the nation s 115.2 million households today consume a weekday paper

and only 30%of households take Sunday papers. Ten years ago, household penetration was more than 1. 6 times higher than it is today.

The International News Marketing Association provided the historical data and I compiled the current data at Yahoo Finance.


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and helps minimize the personal and financial issues that affect our 12,000 employees and their families.


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www. beyondverbal. com). But it goes beyond advertising, more importantly, to improving quality of life. How can this improve quality of life?

Mary Czerwinski is a cognitive psychologist at Microsoft Research doing pioneering work in Affect Computing.


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According to Tiemo Bückmann, the lead scientists in the project, it is like in Hans-Christian Andersen s fairy tale about the princess and the pea.


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Lonmin Marikana is a reference to a violent strike over pay in 2012 that resulted in 44 deaths at a South african platinum mine.


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The biomedical engineer, decided to create a device that would help his child and millions of others better manage their disease.

which can cause tissue damage and sometimes lead to coma or even death. The disease usually occurs early in life

In the latest study, 20 adults wearing the device were put up in a hotel for five days

The results of Damiano s study and several other groups working on artificial pancreases were presented today at the meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San francisco. Via New Scientist Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat t


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Automatons promise a utopian future in a world filled with leisure and adventure for everyone.


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Shoppers leave the store with a link to a 3d image of the room they designed to share with family and friends.


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One man saw that a coworker had voted to make the office cooler, even though he personally thought the building was always cold.


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#Researchers discover gene that stimulates growth of new brain cells in adults City of Hope researchers have found that over-expressing a specific gene could prompt growth in adults of new neurons in the hippocampus,

Specific expression of TLX in adult hippocampal dentate gyrus via lentiviral transduction increased the numbers of Brdu+cells and Brdu+Neun+neurons.

These results suggest a strong association between hippocampal neurogenesis and cognition, as well as significant contributions of TLX to hippocampal neurogenesis, learning,


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it was the defining partnership of the industry for the last 30 years but sometimes 30-year marriages,


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Imagine if everything coming back to you was in 3-Dall of your shopping, all of your gaming,


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Rates of violent crime are down, as well as burglaries, leading to an overall decrease in crime of 10.6 percent, according to the Denver Department of Public Safety.

The city measured the number of reported crimes from January 1st to April 30th of 2014 and compared them to the same period last year,

prior to the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana use. The number of murders, sexual assaults, violent robberies and other assaults fell by 5. 6 percent.

but all other forms of crime were down. The New york times quoted legalization proponent Brian Vicente as saying,

Every major institution said this would be horrible and lead to violence and blood in the streets.


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#which causes 98 percent of all malaria deaths. This year, the company will conduct trials in the U s.,Mali, Tanzania, Equatorial guinea and Germany.


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suggesting the pain-association memory had been erased. In what may be the study s most startlingly discovery


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Mr. He says the suitcase-scooter can carry 2 adults at once and travel as far as 37 miles in one charge


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representing 30 percent of all global deaths. A report by the American Heart Association, Forecasting the Future of Cardiovascular disease in the United states, believes the total direct medical costs of cardiovascular disease will reach $818. 1 billion over the next three decades.

Video) The study of the human body is complex and physicians are constantly researching and developing new ideas of how to combat

Dr. James C. Perry, Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San diego and Director of Electrophysiology and Adult CHD at Rady Children Hospital in San diego explains,


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the International Surfing Association believes this facility could help persuade the International Olympic committee to accept surfing as an Olympic sport. ne of the obstacles is that every competitor wants precisely the same conditions as the other competitor,


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which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says a third of those people make a decision to see

Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings


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but a major part of the problem stems from the fact that industry is largely exempt from the renewables surcharge meaning the burden falls on households.

the government instead proposed A v self-consumption chargeon new photovoltaic systems, something Germany Solar Industry Association recently announced it plans to challenge in court.


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the Luna Wash is like a miniature dirt-destroying Death Star that uses static electricity and steam to coax your clothes clean.


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and cut out the middle man, as well as offer the convenience of simple apps and websites. Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.


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because the epidermal cells grown in a lab culture don produce the same barrier that human skin uses to keep moisture in and toxins out.

while gradually reducing the humidity in the cell culture, and ended up with a stratified epidermis with skin barrier properties similar to those of normal skin.


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and added that many parents in the past paid for college by refinancing mortgages, an alternative no longer available to many families.

which 60,000 households are asked each month about the employment status of all members of the household who are 16 years of age or older.

Most of those households have no one who recently left school and as a result there can be large errors.


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The app costs $49. 95 a month per household and is compliant with federal health privacy regulations. ur culture of learning, innovation,


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Peter Hugill, a Texas A&m professor who at the time was president of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors,


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are believed to cause the cognitive impairments, cell death, and tissue loss associated with Alzheimer. The p25 protein had been tied to the creation and buildup of beta amyloids,


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as you can see in the (rather annoyingly child-narrated) video above, is that you can scan anything you need to buy again in your kitchen before you run out.


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Along with that effort, he is pushing schools to consider funding mechanisms for new technology investments. e have to go 1-to-1 with one device per child,


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There is no doubt of the need for more intelligent urban infrastructure to cope with a growing urban population.

energy and public safety services can improve both the local economy and the quality of life for the city citizens.


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Hall sees a bright future for the family without wires: e just don think about it anymore:


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Cryptocurrency is following the same path as precious metals in ancient civilization. Where gold was valued for its color, easy malleability, purity and its anti-corrosive properties,

Gold was discovered by practically every world civilization and became a good of such universal value it slowly became the de facto means of exchange (along with silver) across much of the planet,

For the vast majority of civilization, money was gold or silver, and both originated not as centrally issued currency that,


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a Washington-based advocacy group that combats online crime. CANN has made a lot of mistakes, and ICANN has not really been a good steward.

executive vice president of the Association of National Advertisers. e would be concerned very about that step. v


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#Controversy brews over use of autonomous killer robots in war People are promised their quality of life will improve with the advances of technology,

and other limits on the technology. obots should not have the power of life and death over human beings,

and death over human beings. nce youe put in billions of dollars of investment, youe got to use these things,


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In other more preliminary examples, scientists have shown that specific culture conditions can push stem cells to grow into self-organized structures resembling a developing brain, a bit of a liver,


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A rocket s skin, for example, needs to contain a column of super-pressurized fuel and at the same time weigh as little as possible.


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