The best treatment for many children with middle ear infections may be no treatment at all, a review of the research confirms.
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Authorities say their search for a mother, brother and a friend in Ohio goes on, after the mother’s teen daughter was found bound and gagged. A suspect is in custody but police are looking for missing vehicles. (Nov. 16)
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Go here to read the rest: Today on Planet 100: Putting a Human Face on Climate Change (Video)
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Photo: Hyundai Joining the 40 MPG Club (On the Highway, Anyway…) As usual with these types of announcements, I feel ambivalent: On one hand, it’s not a major breakthrough, it’s one more gasoline car (better to walk, bike, or take transit)… But on the other hand, it was only a few short years ago when car makers could only brag about their new massive gas guzzlers and nobody in North-America paid much attention to the small car segment, leaving consumers with only a few stagnant choices. At least now there’s some progress, and if people are going to buy cars, they might as well ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The experimental anticlotting pill Xarelto works at least as well as standard warfarin at preventing strokes and blood clots in people with irregular heart rhythms from atrial fibrillation, researchers report.
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Hezbollah chief threatens ‘major political change’ in Lebanon if international tribunal implicates Shiite group members
Continue reading …Comcast Xfinity remote for iPad does streaming video, we record some for you (video)
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If you’ve got Comcast service and an iOS device, there’s no reason you can’t download the brand spanking new Xfinity TV DVR remote app right now, but it won’t have the software’s spiffiest feature — direct-to-device streaming video. That’s set to roll out in either “a couple of weeks” or “by the end of the year,” depending on which Comcast representative you ask, and we got to try it for ourselves (along with the rest of the app) at the Web 2.0 Summit this week. Right now the featureset is fairly limited — you just pick programs from a guide and either watch them, beam them to your TV, or tell your DVR to record — but what is there was leagues more intuitive than a physical remote and about as responsive as we could hope for. Comcast tells us that Apple itself helped insure the user experience was polished, and it showed in every swipe and tap we made. Find out more and watch the app in action after the break! Continue reading Comcast Xfinity remote for iPad does streaming video, we record some for you (video) Comcast Xfinity remote for iPad does streaming video, we record some for you (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Salvatore Giunta, an Army staff sergeant who stepped into the line of fire to help a pair of comrades on the Afghan battlefield, was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama Tuesday. (Nov. 16)
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Over the last year, Haitians have been hit by a catastrophic earthquake and harsh tropical storms, and now another kind of trouble has hit the Caribbean country: a cholera scourge that has already claimed more than 1,000 lives.
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