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Westinghouse Solar CEO expects profit next year

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Westinghouse Solar Inc expects to start posting profits next year after years of losses, as a deal to buy cheaper solar panels should help it cut prices and increase sales, its chief executive told Reuters.
Professor Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren of Karolinska Institute announces the 2011 Nobel Physiology or Medicine laureates during a news conference in Stockholm

Winners of 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
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Professor Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren of Karolinska Institute announces the 2011 Nobel Physiology or Medicine laureates during a news conference in Stockholm

Cancer Kills Nobel Physician Before Hears of Prize

A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.
Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell (R) ''sunbathe'' on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen

Record Arctic Ozone Hole Raises Fears of Worse to Come

A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a report on Monday.
Professor Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren of Karolinska Institute announces the 2011 Nobel Physiology or Medicine laureates during a news conference in Stockholm

Factbox: Winners of 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, was awarded on Monday to Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann jointly for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the other half to Ralph Steinman for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.
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Calif. Insurer Won't Pay for Breast Cancer Drug

Health insurer Blue Shield of California has decided not to pay for Roche Holding's drug Avastin to treat breast cancer after health advisers said it was not safe or clinically beneficial.
U.S. Postal Service faces doomsday.

U.S. Postal Service: A Requiem

After posting an $8.5 billion loss last fiscal year, the postal service is on a pace to go $10 billion in the hole in fiscal 2012.
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An iPhone Event Without Steve Jobs: A Harsh Reality!

Apple's Oct. 4 iPhone event is not only watched by the technology community, but also by Apple itself as it is likely to break the tradition of Steve Jobs taking the center stage to unveil a new iPhone.
More than 20,000 Mormon faithful sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Conference Center during the third session of their 179th annual general conference in Salt Lake City, Utah

Latter-day Saints launch I'm a Mormon ad campaign

The Book of Mormon debuted this year as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, bike salmon

The single thing that makes cyclists so hated by non-cyclists is disrespect for others: the way in which a highly-visible minority of cyclists consider themselves above the law, and flout not only traffic rules but also the basic tenets of civility.
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Fugitive murder suspect shot dead in northern California

An opium-growing recluse wanted in connection with two murders in northern California was shot to death by police officers on Saturday, capping a five-week-long manhunt through dense, rugged woodlands.
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California prevents ban on male circumcision

California Governor Jerry Brown announced on Sunday that he signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision.

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