Fish Swim Bladders Improve Beer, and Now Heal Wounds
There are three important things to know about the swim bladder of a fish. The first (and the only one relevant to the fish) is that it operates like the air tank of a submarine, enabling its owner to...
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Dream of Egypt's 2011 Tahrir Square Revolt Fades as Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
CAIRO (Reuters) - In a courthouse near Cairo, a peremptory message hangs above the judge presiding over one of a series of trials involving Egypt's briefly powerful and now almost impotent Muslim...
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Starting Five for Friday
1. "You Say Pineda, I Say Pedroia"The Yankees and Red Sox meet for the first of 19 times this season, with pinstripe pitcher Michael Pineda stifling the World Series champs in a 4-1 victory.2. Father...
View ArticleMyanmar's First Census in Three Decades Completed Amid Controversy
(Reuters) - A group of women dressed in green sarong-like longyis and simple white blouses stand around a table piled with census forms entering neat notations on spread sheets by hand.The women will...
View Article'Normcore,' Where Being Off-Message Is On-Trend
Any old trainers, a grey t-shirt, zip-up fleece. Just stuff. Shirts, chinos, jumpers – even if they come from Gap. Nondescript, loosish (but not baggy) blue jeans, deck shoes.If you wear any of these,...
View ArticlePope Asks Forgiveness for 'Evil' of Priestly Child Abuse
(Reuters) - Pope Francis made his first public plea for forgiveness on Friday for the "evil" committed by priests who molested children, using some of his strongest words yet on the Roman Catholic...
View ArticleObama Names Burwell as U.S. Health Secretary to Fix Obamacare Woes
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he will promote budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell to be his next health secretary, who will preside over the next difficult phase of his...
View ArticleDarfur Rebel Says Peacekeepers Turning Blind Eye to New Violence
(Reuters) - A veteran rebel leader from Sudan's Darfur region accused international peacekeepers on Friday of turning a blind eye to what he called a renewed campaign of ethnic cleansing by...
View ArticleWhite House Will Deny Iran's Hamid Abutalebi a Visa for U.N. Over Hostage-Taking
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday that an Iranian official who was in the student group that took U.S. diplomats hostage in 1979 will not be issued a visa to allow him to become...
View ArticleMalaysia Starts Investigating Confused Initial Response to Missing Jet
(Reuters) - Malaysia's government has begun investigating civil aviation and military authorities to determine why opportunities to identify and track Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were missed in the...
View ArticleWrongfully Convicted, Jonathan Fleming Is Freed After 24 Years: ‘I Have No...
Jonathan Fleming spent 24 years in prison, serving time for a 1989 murder he did not commit. On Tuesday, Fleming learned that he would walk free later that day. The Conviction Integrity Unit, created...
View ArticleDocument: GM's Barra Got an Email About Steering Problems in 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee on Friday said there were "failures within the system" over the handling of flawed ignition switches in General Motors Co vehicles, which have been...
View ArticleIs Tinder Worth $5 Billion?
(Reuters) - Shares of Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp rose as much as 3.2 percent to $70.57 on Friday after it increased its stake in the popular dating app Tinder, according to a Bloomberg...
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Today in Tabs: Not ALL Tabs!
OMG HAX: My New Yorker article on Heartbleed was popular enough to qualify me for the most exalted reward available to the monocle-blogger, a public radio appearance. Listen to me use the word...
View ArticleDid France Actually Ban Checking Work Emails After 6? Not Quite.
The Internet has been set aflame—and made a little envious—by the news that France has passed a law making it illegal to answer work emails after 6 p.m. Here are a random sampling of headlines:France...
View ArticleObamacare's Forbidden Talking Point
"Charlene Dill didn't have to die."That was the first line of an Orlando Weekly story this Wednesday. Dill, a 32-year-old single mother of three, died last month while working an odd job selling vacuum...
View ArticlePro-Russian Separatists Take Kramatorsk Police HQ After Firefight
Update 5:31 PM ET: KIEV (Reuters) - Pro-Russian militants armed with automatic weapons on Saturday took control of the police headquarters in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, 150 km (95 miles) from...
View ArticlePakistani Judge Throws Out Attempted Murder Charge Against Baby
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani judge threw out charges of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby on Saturday, lawyers said, in a case that cast a spotlight on Pakistan's dysfunctional...
View ArticleSearch for a Cause After California Bus Accident Kills 10, Including 5 Students
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - Investigators were focusing on Saturday on what caused a FedEx tractor-trailer to collide with a bus in a fiery crash in northern California that killed 10 people,...
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U.S. Officials End Stand-Off With Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy
BUNKERVILLE, Nevada (Reuters) - U.S. officials ended a stand-off with hundreds of armed protesters in the Nevada desert on Saturday, calling off the government's roundup of cattle it said were...
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