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| Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:00:00 EST You |
| Time and space may have seemed constant once upon a time. But we've been fiddling with time—at least in terms of TV scheduling—for decades by recording shows in order to watch them later. Now we can also mess with space, thanks to a new "place-shifting" device called the Slingbox that lets you watch the shows on your living room TV from just about any broadband-connected laptop or PC. |
| Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:00:00 EST Curcumin and melanoma |
| The Asian spice that gives curried rice its bright yellow color could someday provide researchers with a new way to fight skin cancer. Small doses of curcumin, a spice ground from the turmeric root and a common ingredient in curry, not only stopped the growth of melanoma cells in the lab but also caused the cells to self-destruct, say researchers from the University of Texas's M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. |
| Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:00:00 EST Bringing spooks out in the open |
| As the Bush administration moves ahead with its plan to reform the U.S. intelligence community, White House officials are considering creating a unit at CIA headquarters to specialize in publicly available information. The proposal would address a long-standing criticism of the intelligence community: that it has done a poor job of analyzing what those in the spy world call open-source intelligence. |
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| Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:36:57 EDT Discovering the men and women of Discovery |
| They are parents, as well as sons and daughters; triathletes, nature-lovers and rock 'n' rollers; pilots, scholars and engineers; seasoned space explorers and first-timers. The astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery are also groundbreakers -- the first to fly since the Columbia disaster in 2003. The crew is scheduled to lift off Wednesday. |
| Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:43:21 EDT Idaho suspect to be charged with murder |
| A convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping an 8-year-old Idaho girl will be charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder, the prosecutor in the case said Monday. |
| Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:41:32 EDT Official: Afghans sheltered SEAL from Taliban |
| Afghan villagers sheltered a U.S. Navy SEAL wounded in a battle last month with the Taliban until they could get word to American forces to rescue him, a military official said today. The SEAL wrote a note verifying his identity and location, and a villager carried it to U.S. forces, the official said. |
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