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1 in 9 people aged 45-54 is hearing impaired

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 03:12 PM PST

A new survey of mostly middle-aged adults reveals that among people aged 45 to 54, one in nine shows signs of hearing impairment.

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JonBenet Ramsey's Colo. home listed for $2.3M

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 02:29 PM PST

The house where JonBenet Ramsey lived with her family in Boulder, Colo., is up for sale again.

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Blockbuster says group offering $290M for it

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 02:38 PM PST

Movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc. says a group of investors is offering $290 million to buy it out of bankruptcy protection.

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1 dead in Calif. church bus crash

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:10 PM PST

Rescue workers respond to a bus crash that killed at least two people Monday afternoon along Highway 189 southwest of Lake Gregory in Crestline, Calif.One person died and up to two dozen were injured Monday afternoon when a school bus slid over a snowy embankment along a Southern California highway.




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Millions viewing graphic self-harm YouTube videos

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:55 AM PST

YouTube videos on cutting and other self-injury methods are setting an alarming new trend, attracting millions of hits. The more than 5,000 posted could serve as a how-to for troubled viewers, a study warns.

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Man bag fad can lead to back bother

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 11:33 AM PST

Sporting a weighty man bag may be the latest fashion for fellows but it can cause back pain and poor posture, British chiropractors said this month. A new study shows the average 'murse' weighs about 14 pounds.

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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 11:33 AM PST

Brain pacemakers aim to zap severe depression

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 11:50 AM PST

Call them brain pacemakers, tiny implants that hold promise for fighting tough psychiatric diseases — if scientists can figure out just where in all that gray matter to put them.

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Want the best credit card terms? Be rich

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 11:57 AM PST

It pays to be rich if you need a credit card.

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Washington 'blackest name' in America

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:42 PM PST

This 1894 photo shows Booker T. Washington, who was a boy when Emancipation came to his Virginia plantation.The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people with the surname Washington. Ninety percent of them were African-American.




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Schools cut lunch options for kids who can't pay

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 04:29 AM PST

Even as schools raise prices on meals, new guidelines under federal consideration threaten to put an added burden on an already budget-strained program. Msnbc.com's Alex Johnson reports.

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Wis. governor says union bill is 'incredibly fair'

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 03:46 PM PST

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker reiterates his case Monday afternoon not to budge on a bill to bust collective bargaining rights of public employees and to fix a $3.6 billion deficit.

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Posted: 21 Feb 2011 03:46 PM PST

Wall Street: Stocks are overbought so buy, buy!

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:38 AM PST

Investors will continue to ride the speediest rally in U.S. stocks since the Great Depression despite growing concerns that the market is overbought and due for a correction.

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Hungry for a solution to rising food prices

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:22 AM PST

Overall, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome says global food prices surged in January to record levels, based on data reaching back to 1990."The price hike is already pushing millions of people into poverty and putting stress on the most vulnerable, who spend more than half of their income on food," says World Bank President Robert Zoellick.




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India brings hope to stalled polio fight

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 10:16 AM PST

Deep in India, the polio virus has stubbornly hidden. But now, the long-stalled global fight to eradicate the crippling disease might be on the verge of a victory as health workers there go door-to-door vaccinating millions.

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Egypt freezes Mubarak's assets

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:22 AM PST

Pro-Mubarak demonstrators, some carrying photos of the former president, gather in the Mohandessin neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. In a small counterpoint to the scene at Tahrir Square, scores of pro-Mubarak supporters protested outside a mosque Friday, many dressed in black, holding photos of the ex-president, and saying they wanted to honor the man who led them for nearly three decades because they felt he had been humiliated by the revolt. Writing in Arabic on posters showing picture of Mubarak reads "Apology, Mr President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, We love you President". (AP Photo/Ahmed Ali) Egypt's top prosecutor requested on Monday the freezing of the foreign assets of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family, announced state TV.




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Blagojevich seeks to toss key wiretap evidence

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 05:38 AM PST

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the Federal Court building on Aug. 12, 2010.Attorneys for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich asked a federal judge on Monday to bar prosecutors from playing any FBI wiretap recordings to jurors.




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Sudan's Bashir not standing for re-election: party

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:31 AM PST

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will not stand at the next election as part of a package of reforms aimed at democratizing the country, a senior official of the ruling party said on Monday.

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Midwest storm halts holiday travel

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 12:31 PM PST

A major snow storm dealt a winter wallop to Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Ohio on Monday as it moved east out of Minnesota.

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