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Gamers Contribute to Exoplanet Discoveries

A browser game titled Planet Hunters sends players searching through Kepler public data for potential planets, and now university researchers are saying that we may discover two new exoplanets very soon.

New Computational Analysis Forecasts New Targets to Control HIV

New Computational Analysis Paves Way For New Targets To Control HIV
Computational scientists have forecasted the presence of numerous human proteins that are required by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to replicate itself. These, constitute a powerful resource for experimentalists who desire to discover new targets for human proteins that can control the spread of HIV, noted study authors.

Elizabeth Taylor's designer clothes to be auctioned

Elizabeth Taylor poses as she arrives for a A.R. Gurney's play ''Love Letters'' at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles in this December 1, 2007 file photo.
Designer clothes owned by Hollywood legend and fashion icon Elizabeth Taylor, including haute couture by Chanel, Yves St. Laurent and Dior, will be sold at auction in New York, Christie's said on Wednesday.
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Julius Malema: South Africa's Malcolm X

South African politician Julius Malema was found guilty of hate speech charges on Monday, but the crime will do little to stop the controversial leader's rise. Malema is one of South Africa's most polarizing figures, and he may well be the country's future.
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Green-Glowing Cats Are New Tool in AIDS Research

U.S. scientists have developed a strain of green-glowing cats with cells that resist infection from a virus that causes feline AIDS, a finding that may help prevent the disease in cats and advance AIDS research in people.
Iraq war veteran Jordan Towers poses at the War Memorial building in San Francisco

Man Who Joined Marines After 9/11 Made Sacrifice

Jordan Towers said he was unpacking a truck during a family move from Truckee, California, to the state capital of Sacramento when he heard the news that a plane had flown into New York's World Trade Center.
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Private Medical Data for 20,000 Stanford Hospital Patients Was Online for a Year

The patients' names, account numbers, diagnosis codes, admission and discharge dates, and billing charges were posted on Student of Fortune, a commercial homework help Web site. The information was contained in a detailed spreadsheet, which the site posted on Sept. 9, 2010, to show customers how to create a bar chart from raw data.
Zuma and Mogoeng

South Africa's Zuma Appoints 'Rapist Lenient' Judge

South African President Jacob Zuma appointed evangelical pastor Mogoeng Mogoeng to the Chief Justice position on Thursday. But, the choice of Mogoeng, who will now hear the country's Constitutional Court, has already sparked fury in some South Africans.
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Bono and N'Dour to Hold Famine Concert in Kenya

Irish musician Bono and Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour are planning a global Olympic-style torch relay, culminating in a concert in Kenya in 2012 to raise funds and awareness about the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa.

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