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Friday, May 13, 2011

Study: Social Web sites aid learning

HONG KONG, May 9 (UPI) -- Online social networking sites like Facebook can help students be academically and socially integrated and improve learning outcomes, Chinese researchers say. Contradicting criticisms that social sites are nothing more than trivial distractions from serious study, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Healthcare reform will insure 27M women

NEW YORK, May 12 (UPI) -- Nearly all of the 27 million U.S. uninsured women and will have access to medical care once healthcare reform is enacted, U.S. researchers say. The Commonwealth Fund 2010 Biennial Health Insurance Survey indicates women are skipping needed healthcare. Forty-eight 48 percent... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Jury selection starts in Caylee death

CLEARWATER, Fla., May 9 (UPI) -- Casey Anthony cried in court Monday as the judge read out her murder charges as jury selection began in her daughter Caylee's death in Clearwater, Fla. Anthony, 25, was transferred from the Orange County Jail in Orlando Sunday night, and the fact that a Pinellas... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Under the U.S. Supreme Court: With bin Laden taken out, is Awlaki next?

WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- Now that Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes, is Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, next on the Obama administration's hit list? Immediately after bin Laden was killed by an elite Navy SEAL force in Pakistan and his body buried at sea, The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Egyptians Protest Bin Laden Killing

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