Women in the military have access to some of the nation's best health care, which includes free birth control. But a new study shows that many women are not using it and the rate of unintended pregnancy is double that of the general population.And today, with the Department of Defense having just ended its longtime ban on women serving in combat roles, an unplanned pregnancy...
Jan
24
The real lesson from the bird flu storm
Label: World The controversy over whether work on airborne H5N1 bird flu can be published shows that transparency is vital to upholding public trust So the research moratorium on H5N1 bird flu is over. In 2011 I was one of the first journalists to report the discovery that H5N1 bird flu, which is highly lethal in humans, can mutate...
Keppel Corp's net profit falls 22% on-year in Q4
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Falling margins from building oil rigs has hit the bottomline of Keppel Corp. Net profit for the world's leading rig builder fell 22 per cent on-year to S$305 million in the fourth quarter last year.Still, full year profit for the conglomerate came in 15 per cent to S$2.24 billion.Despite lower net profit in the three months ended Dec 31, Keppel Corp still declared a final dividend...
Twitter unveils Vine, its six-second Instagram for video
Label: LifestyleTwitter today unveiled Vine, an app for iOS that lets anyone create and share short looping videos.Twitter acquired Vine last fall, but anyone can use Vine regardless of whether they use Twitter. However, the service is clearly meant to be embedded anywhere, and there are plenty of examples of the videos being embedded in tweets. The service (see an example below) is being referred to by many as Twitter's...
Exterminator Charged in Pa. Doctor's Murder
Label: Business An exterminator named Joseph Smith was arrested and charged today in the strangling and burning death of Philadelphia pediatrician Melissa Ketunuti.Smith, 36, had been sent to Ketunuti's home on a service call where the two got into "some kind of argument" in Ketunuti's basement on Monday, Capt. James Clark of the Philadelphia police department said this morning."At her home...
Jan
23
Can we really 'cure' autism?
Label: World Some claim that new research shows people can grow out of autism, but it is more likely that they simply cope better with the condition over time The New York Times has pointed to an intriguing study ostensibly showing that some small percentage of people with autism can "outgrow" their symptoms. The story...
Japan presses Algeria for answers as toll hits nine
Label: Technology ALGIERS: A senior Japanese official met Algeria's prime minister on Wednesday to press for an explanation of the gas plant siege, as Tokyo confirmed the deaths of two more nationals, taking its toll to nine.Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shunichi Suzuki arrived aboard a government jet that is to repatriate the bodies of those known to have been killed in the hostage crisis, along with the...
Surface RT tablet to get update glitch fix -- in February
Label: LifestyleHang in there, Surface RT users.(Credit:Josh Miller/CNET)Microsoft is working on a fix for Windows RT users hit by application-updating problems that seemingly were introduced by the latest set of updates Microsoft pushed out for the operating system earlier this month.As The Next Web noted late last week, some Surface RT users have not been able to access the Windows Store or Windows Update since...
Pictures: Trout vs. Trout in Yellowstone Lake
Label: HealthPhotograph by Jay FlemingWithout aggressive management, the population of Yellowstone cutthroats could be decimated. To suppress the population of lake trout, the National Park Service engaged a contract fishing company to net them. Cutthroats are removed carefully from the traps and thrown back. Lake trout are removed and killed. Last year about 300,000 of the non-native intruders were taken...
Clinton Says Budget Cuts Undermine Security
Label: Business Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stood her ground today, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that she has overseen plans to secure diplomatic outposts around the world while cuts in State Department funding undermine those efforts.Citing a report by the department's Accountability Review Board on the security failures that led to the deaths of four Americans...
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