EL CORRAL, Chile (AP) — The Diaguita Indians live in the foothills of the Andes, just downstream from the world’s highest gold mine, where for as long as anyone can remember they’ve drunk straight from the glacier-fed river that irrigates their orchards and vineyards with its clear water. Then thousands of mine workers and their [...]
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By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows “a lot of excitement and interest [...]
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Ultimately, many of the photos and cellphone records of Trayvon Martin released online Thursday by George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys – indicating that the slain teenager smoked marijuana, got into fights at school, and had an interest in, and perhaps access to, guns – may be ruled inadmissible in court. But they are already making the [...]
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There’s just about no tolerance left in America for wealthy people griping about their financial woes. But put down the pitchforks for a moment and consider one possible exception we might all learn something from. The money-news site The Billfold recently ran an interview with an anonymous physician who earns $ 570,000 a year and [...]
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By Lavinia Mo HONG KONG (Reuters) – The new H7N9 bird flu virus can be transmitted between mammals not only via direct contact but also in airborne droplets, and may be capable of spreading from person to person, Chinese and American researchers have found. A study published in the journal Science and presented at a [...]
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Student loan defaults have surged this year, with the U.S. Department of Education reporting 6.8 million federal student loan borrowers failing to make payments. What does that mean for student-loan payers across the nation? Most of you are doing it wrong. [More from Manilla.com: Personal Budgeting Tips] And as the cost of higher education continues [...]
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Illustration by Bob Scott No long chats with the doorman. No umbrellas or wet boots in the hall. No welcome mats or decorations on the front door. No wearing flip-flops in the lobby. These are but a few of the more extreme rules that apartment boards in New York City have imposed, or at least [...]
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From the studio that put Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit may now come a movie about the real-life seamstresses who traded sewing brassieres for stitching Neil Armstrong‘s lunar wardrobe. Warner Bros. Pictures, which this fall will release Alfonso Cuarón‘s Bullock-and-George-Clooney-as-astronauts sci-fi film “Gravity,” has hired screenwriter Richard Cordiner to adapt the non-fiction book, “Spacesuit: Fashioning [...]
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By Linda Sieg and Ruairidh Villar SAGAMIHARA, Japan (Reuters) – When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in a righteous war to free Asia from the yoke of Western imperialism. Seven decades later, the 91-year-old retired Christian pastor [...]
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By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) – Actors and directors gathered for the world’s leading movie showcase in Cannes this week said television was increasingly luring top talent and should no longer be seen as artistically inferior to the big screen. TV series like “The Wire,” “Homeland”, “Mad Men,” “The Sopranos” and “Game of Thrones”, which [...]
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