Heroes Among Us By Jennifer Wren 12/01/2012 at 09:40 AM EST Dr. Andrew Moore (center, in scrubs) with staff members, from left: Shirley Ramsey, Barry Bussell and Tony Reyes John Chiasson When an increasing number of his patients couldn't pay for their life-saving...
South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight
Label: HealthJOHANNESBURG (AP) — In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died.Two decades later the clinic is the biggest anti-retroviral, or ARV, treatment center in the country and sees between 600 to 800 patients a day from all over southern Africa....
Cliff fight may knock out December rally
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - In normal times, next week's slew of U.S. economic data could be a springboard for a December rally in the stock market. December is historically a strong month for markets. The S&P 500 has risen 16 times in the past 20 years during the month. But the market hasn't been operating under normal circumstances since November 7 when a day after the U.S....
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General Assembly Grants Palestine Upgraded Status in U.N.
Label: WorldDamon Winter/The New York TimesThe Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, center, was congratulated by Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. More Photos »UNITED NATIONS — More than 130 countries voted on Thursday to upgrade Palestine to a nonmember observer state of the United Nations, a triumph for Palestinian diplomacy and a sharp rebuke to the United States and Israel. But...
The Xbox 720 Is Coming Sooner Than Anyone Anticipated
Label: TechnologyAfter almost three years without an update, and with Windows 8 sales flailing, Microsoft will release a new Xbox just in time for Christmas next year, sources told Bloomberg’s Dina Bass and Ian King. Last year Microsoft had said that it wouldn’t release a new version of the gaming system “anytime soon,” with other sources talking up a date sometime in 2013 “at the earliest.” This new Christmas launch...
Carrie Underwood to Star as Maria von Trapp on TV's The Sound of Music
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch By Stephen M. Silverman 11/30/2012 at 10:55 AM EST Julie Andrews, as Maria von Trapp in 1965s Best Picture of the Year, The Sound of Music, with Carrie Underwood (inset) Everett; Inset: Taylor Hill/WireImage It sounds like mighty big gulp for a relative...
Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
Label: HealthBUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because is he receiving treatment amid what the World Health Organization says is the worst AIDS epidemic in Europe.Ahead of World AIDS Day on Saturday, international organizations have urged...
Wall Street little changed; Obama to speak on "fiscal cliff"
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed on Friday as investors were hesitant to make big trading bets ahead of a statement by President Obama on the progress of budget talks. Trading has been choppy lately, as investors buy on sporadic dips in the market and react to mixed headlines out of Washington regarding discussions on averting the "fiscal cliff," spending cuts and tax hikes...
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Hacking Report Criticizes Murdoch Newspaper and British Press Standards
Label: WorldLONDON — The leader of a major inquiry into the standards of British newspapers triggered by the phone hacking scandal offered an excoriating critique of the press as a whole on Thursday, saying it displayed “significant and reckless disregard for accuracy,” and urged the press to form an independent regulator to be underpinned by law. Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesLord Justice Sir Brian Leveson...
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