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  1. City workers walk through London's Canary Wharf. Men who bottle up frustrations about unfair treatment at work are twice as likely to have a heart attack, a study suggests.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)
    Stifled Anger at Work Doubles Men's Risk for Heart Attack HealthDay - Tue Nov 24, 11:48 PM ETSent 713 times

    MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Men who bottle up their anger over unfair treatment at work could be hurting their hearts, a new Swedish study indicates.

  2. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wait to welcome India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur to the State Dinner at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    Evening gowns, saris at Obama's first state dinner AP - 55 minutes agoSent 339 times

    WASHINGTON - Traditional evening gowns and vibrantly colored saris mixed with banded-collar dinner jackets and tuxedos at President Barack Obama's first state dinner.

  3. Q&A: Dennis Sewell on Charles Darwin's Dark Legacy Time.com - Tue Nov 24, 11:50 AM ETSent 200 times

    On the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, political journalist Dennis Sewell talks to TIME about how the naturalist's big idea has been harnessed for sinister ends

  4. Belgian patient Rom Houben, seen here using a specially-adapted computer to type messages at the Weyerke institute near Liege. Houben, who was wrongly diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, has revived the debate on care for those considered in a vegetative state, with the astonishing case far from unique according to a recent study.(AFP/Stringer)
    Comatose for 23 years, Belgian feels reborn AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:30 PM ETSent 134 times

    BRUSSELS - Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body.

  5. U.S Marines check a road for explosives in Golestan district of Farah province May 4, 2009. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
    U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 10:40 PM ETSent 66 times

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Department said on Tuesday.

  6. A traveler wheels luggage past one of many hand sanitizer dispensers hung on walls at Logan International Airport in Boston Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Thanksgiving is typically followed by at least a modest bump in early seasonal flu cases, according to reports from the past few years. But this, of course, is not a typical year. Swine flu is a new virus that accounts for nearly all flu cases right now. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
    CDC warns: Holiday could bring more swine flu AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:14 PM ETSent 64 times

    ATLANTA - Let us give thanks — and pass the Purell.

  7. Goodbye jobs, hello mom and dad, say young adults AP - Tue Nov 24, 10:10 AM ETSent 62 times

    WASHINGTON - Faced with limited job options, many young adults are turning to an old standby to weather the recession: moving back in with mom and dad.

  8. Police investigators tag a body found in a shallow grave at the massacre site of a political clan that included several journalists in the outskirts of Ampatuan, Maguindanao in southern Philippines November 25, 2009. The latest death toll in the massacre is 52, police said on Wednesday.  REUTERS/Erik de Castro   (PHILIPPINES CRIME LAW CONFLICT)
    Philippine massacre probe focuses on Arroyo ally AP - 6 minutes agoSent 60 times

    AMPATUAN, Philippines - Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to make arrests in the country's worst election massacre, said Wednesday they are investigating a member of a powerful clan allied with the government along with four police commanders.

  9. Mike Wilder, Executive Director of the Kentucky State Medical Examiners office, answers questions about the death of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at the Kentucky State Police Central Forensic Laboratory in Frankfort, Ky. The Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with 'fed' scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)
    Authorities: Hanged Ky. census worker killed self AP - 59 minutes agoSent 54 times

    FRANKFORT, Ky. - When an eastern Kentucky census worker was found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest, suspicion fell on the hardscrabble Appalachian area where bad news seems like a way of life.

  10. Italian group asks MTV to cancel 'Jersey Shore' AP - Tue Nov 24, 8:19 PM ETSent 46 times

    FAIRFIELD, N.J. - A national Italian-American organization based in New Jersey says an MTV reality show that depicts Italian-American beachgoers as the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" is offensive and should be scrapped before it airs.

  11. President Barack Obama smiles as a reporter asks a question about Afghanistan during a joint news conference with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, not pictured, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    Obama expects support for more Afghanistan troops AP - 53 minutes agoSent 41 times

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama expects Americans to support more U.S. troops in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, and he is preparing to make his case to the nation next week.

  12. The US Republican party, whose platform condemns abortion as an "assault on the sanctity of innocent human life," will no longer offer health insurance that covers the procedure, the party confirmed Friday. "I don't know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled," said RNC Chairman Michael Steele.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)
    Republicans considering ideological purity test for candidates The Yahoo! Newsroom - Tue Nov 24, 3:57 PM ETSent 38 times

    Ten members of the Republican National Committee are proposing a resolution demanding candidates embrace at least eight of 10 conservative principles if they hope to receive financial support and an official endorsement from the RNC. The "Proposed RNC Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates," is designed to force candidates to prove that they support "conservative principles" while opposing "Obama's socialist agenda," according to The New York Times' Caucus blog. The proposal highlights the ongoing tug-of-war for the ideological soul of the Republican party, and has been met with skepticism both inside and outside of the party.

  13. Adam Lambert, left, gets ready to kiss one of the dancers as he performs during the closing act of the 37th Annual American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
    ABC's `Good Morning America' cancels Lambert AP - Tue Nov 24, 6:57 PM ETSent 32 times

    NEW YORK - Adam Lambert's racy American Music Awards performance cost him a gig on "Good Morning America," but he will perform live instead on ABC's morning rivals at CBS.

  14. In this Monday Nov. 23, 2009 photo provided by ABC, Donny Osmond, left,  and Kym Johnson perform during 'Dancing with the Stars' in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Larkey) NO SALES
    Donny Osmond wins `Dancing with the Stars' AP - Tue Nov 24, 11:54 PM ETSent 31 times

    NEW YORK - Donny Osmond was declared the new champion of "Dancing with Stars" on Tuesday night, taking home the show's mirror ball trophy in the season finale of the ABC contest reality program.

  15. FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2009, file photo Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, holds a copy of the health care bill, trussed in sturdy rope, in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a Republican news conference. The full draft of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's House version of the health care bill has been published in the Congressional Record in the official and conventional manner.  It is not much of a spectacle, nor much trouble to move: it's 209 pages.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
    SPIN METER: 'War and Peace' in 209 pages? AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:30 PM ETSent 30 times

    WASHINGTON - Republicans are using everything short of forklifts to show Americans that Democratic health care legislation is an unwieldy mountain of paper. They pile it high on desks, hoist it on a shoulder trussed in sturdy rope and tell people it's longer than "War and Peace," which it isn't.

  16. Bill Nash, of Springfield, Mass., speaks with reporters regarding pedophiles in the Catholic diocese, during a news conference outside the Providence Catholic Diocese offices, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, in Providence, R.I. In the background from left, are Skip Shea, from Uxbridge, Mass., Paul Kellen, from Medford, Mass., and Ken Scott, from Beacon Hill, Mass. Clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters say Bishop Thomas Tobin isn't doing enough to protect children even as he's taken on Rep. Patrick Kennedy for the Democratic lawmaker's stance on abortion rights. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
    Clergy abuse victims criticize RI bishop AP - Tue Nov 24, 7:45 PM ETSent 28 times

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters said Tuesday that Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is not doing enough to protect children from pedophile priests even as he's taken on Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy for his stance on abortion rights.

  17. In a 2008 photo provided by Gary Lambert, Margaret Lambert stands outside her home in New York. Lambert, then known as Gretel Bergmann, matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the record was all but obliterated and Lambert, who was Jewish, was kicked off them team. Now comes news that Germany's track and field association restored the mark, calling the decision an 'act of justice and a symbolic gesture' while acknowledging it 'can in no way make up' for the past. It also requested that she be included in Germany's sports hall of fame.  (AP Photo/Gary Lambert)
    Germans restore 1936 high jump record AP - Tue Nov 24, 1:37 PM ETSent 27 times

    NEW YORK - Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936.

  18. Scientists gather at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) data quality satellite control center of the ATLAS detectors during the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Scientists turned on the Large Hadron Collider on Friday night, Nov. 20, 2009, for the first time since the machine suffered a failure more than a year ago and had to be shut down shortly after the start. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
    Big Bang atom smasher starts speeding proton beams AP - Tue Nov 24, 11:56 AM ETSent 24 times

    GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher used its accelerator Tuesday to speed up proton beams for the first time as scientists moved ahead in efforts to learn more about the universe.

  19. In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic  Division, an iceberg is seen at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island's east coast, in the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It is very rare to see icebergs from Macquarie Island and is uncommon to find icebergs in this general region. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, Eve Merfield)
    Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand AP - 1 hour, 30 minutes agoSent 24 times

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

  20. FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2009, file photo, St. Louis Rams linebacker David Vobora leaves the field after the fourth quarter of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in St. Louis.  'The only thing I remember is coming out of the tunnel at the beginning of the game. And then — a big gap,' Vobora said about a concussion he got this season.  'But I played the whole game, until the last series, when I started asking guys questions, and they looked at me like I was crazy.' (AP Photo/Tom Gannam, File)
    APNewsBreak: Chairs of NFL concussion panel resign AP - Tue Nov 24, 10:00 PM ETSent 23 times

    Commissioner Roger Goodell sent a wide-ranging memo about concussions to NFL teams Tuesday, saying the co-chairmen of the league's committee on brain injuries have resigned and that he is examining potential rule changes "to reduce head impacts."

  21. Police: Dad leaves boy and goes into strip club AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:24 PM ETSent 21 times

    INDIANAPOLIS - A man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink. The 39-year-old was arrested at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday on child neglect and public intoxication charges after calling police to report his truck stolen and his child missing. Police said the man was too drunk to remember where he had parked.

  22. FILE -  In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, a child cries as he waits for ultrasonic scan to detect for problems related to consuming tainted milk formula at a hospital, in Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei province. China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009,  for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises. The men were the only people put to death in a scheme to boost profits by lacing milk powder with the industrial chemical melamine; another 19 were convicted and received lesser sentences. At least six children died after drinking the adulterated formula, and more than 300,000 were sickened. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
    China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal AP - Tue Nov 24, 3:51 PM ETSent 20 times

    BEIJING - China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula — severe punishments that Beijing hopes will assuage public anger, reassure importers and put to rest one of the country's worst food safety crises.

  23. Toyota to recall 110,000 Tundras over rust AP - Tue Nov 24, 5:37 PM ETSent 18 times

    WASHINGTON - Toyota Motor Corp. will recall 110,000 Tundra trucks from the 2000-2003 model years to address excessive rust on the vehicle's frame. The government urged owners to remove the spare tire from the frame, concerned it could fall onto the road and create a hazard for other vehicles.

  24. A handout photograph released in London November 24, 2009, shows the damage sustained by Bridgewater House in London during World War Two German air raids in 1941. Paul Delaroche's "Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers", was hanging in the dining room at the time and sustained extensive shrapnel damage. REUTERS/The Times/Handout
    Delaroche work "ruined" in war rescued for show Reuters - Tue Nov 24, 10:58 AM ETSent 17 times

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A major work by French painter Paul Delaroche thought to have been virtually destroyed during a World War Two German air raid on London in 1941 has been unrolled and found to be in good condition.

  25. FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford listens as his attorney Butch Bowers talks about the actions of the Ethics Commission during a news conference, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, began debating a measure that ultimately would remove him from office. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
    Panel 1st up in SC Gov. Sanford impeachment debate AP - 59 minutes agoSent 17 times

    COLUMBIA, S.C. - Gov. Mark Sanford's tearful confession that he quietly disappeared from the state for five days to rendezvous with his lover in Argentina has shattered his marriage and dimmed his once-bright political future.

  26. UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China AP - 2 hours, 54 minutes agoSent 16 times

    SHANGHAI - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said.

  27. Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy? Time.com - Tue Nov 24, 11:50 AM ETSent 16 times

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to move Albert Camus' ashes to the famed PanthÉon in Paris as a way of revering the writer and philosopher. His critics, however, see more tactical motivations

  28. In this photo taken Oct. 21, 2009, in Naperville, Ill. Butterball Turkey Talk Line instructor Carol Miller teaches cooking and carving during day one of the 29th season of Butterball University. Butterball's Talk Line functions year-round, mainly as an automated answering service where it answers all sorts of turkey cooking questions, but, each November and December the hotline goes live. Fifty-five ladies are onhand as the hotline receives 100,000 calls, e-mails and inquiries from struggling cooks. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
    At turkey boot camp, no need for a scrub brush AP - Tue Nov 24, 2:26 PM ETSent 15 times

    NAPERVILLE, Ill. - Workers at Butterball's turkey-tips hot line are used to oddball situations:

  29. President Barack Obama welcomes India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a State Arrival in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    Obama hails US-India ties amid talks with Singh AP - Tue Nov 24, 9:38 PM ETSent 15 times

    WASHINGTON - Seeking firmer footing for U.S.-India relations, President Barack Obama tried Tuesday to calm India's fears about Asian rival China, salving bruised feelings in the world's largest democracy with an elaborate state visit and assurances of India's "rightful place as a global leader."

  30. This image provided by Christie's shows an oil painting by N.C. Wyeth titled ''For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well,' that illustrated an edition of 'Robinson Crusoe.' It is part of three generations of Wyeth artworks that will be auctioned next month, including 14 original oil canvases by N.C. Wyeth that  lavishly illustrated the classic adventure tale. The Dec. 2 sale at Christie's; includes works by N.C. Wyeth; his son; Andrew; and grandson; Jamie. (AP Photo/Christie's)
    3 generations of Wyeths to be sold in NYC AP - Tue Nov 24, 5:54 PM ETSent 15 times

    NEW YORK - Three generations of Wyeth artworks will be auctioned next month, including 14 original oil canvases by N.C. Wyeth that were used to lavishly illustrate the classic adventure tale of "Robinson Crusoe."