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Rising hacking risks to drivers as their cars become increasingly powered by and connected to computers have prompted the U.S.’s auto-safety regulator to start a new office focusing on the threat.
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A mutant version of a bird flu virus created by scientists last year to show its ability to spread between humans evolved to show characteristics of previous pandemic viruses, a study found.
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The vast majority of older Americans, facing steep and rising health-care costs that threaten to bankrupt them, are doing little to protect themselves. Ninety percent of people don't buy long-term care insurance policies, for example. The reasons why are simple: Not only are policies expensive and confusing; many leading insurers have stopped selling them.
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The vast majority of older Americans, facing steep and rising health-care costs that threaten to bankrupt them, are doing little to protect themselves. Ninety percent of people don't buy long-term care insurance policies, for example. The reasons why are simple: Not only are policies expensive and confusing; many leading insurers have stopped selling them.
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When animal researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison dodged federal penalties for decapitating a cat named Double Trouble, their troubles weren’t over.
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When Kevin Kalmes received a foreclosure notice on her home after being unemployed for more than two years, she said she started selling the contents of her basement, figuring that “I can’t fit all this stuff in a Wal- Mart shopping cart.”
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Amherst College is overhauling its policies for investigating sexual assault following a campus outcry over the school’s policies for handling complaints.
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Four years ago, when Barack Obama delivered an inaugural address in the middle of the country’s worst recession in seven decades, more than 1 million supporters braved frigid weather to hear his first words as president.
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Bird flu kills more than half the people who catch it. The saving grace of H5N1 is that it’s not easily spread among humans. Almost all of the 600 people who have been infected by the virus in its 14-year history have picked it up from infected poultry.
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Scientists say they’ve found the missing link. For beer, not humans.
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