2015-06

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352 Universities asked to raise flag, sing national anthem at ceremonies

State-run universities were urged on Tuesday to raise the national flag and sing the national anthem at entrance and gra...
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351 The Web is getting slower

It's not you. Web pages really are loading slower. The average site is now 2.1 MB in size -- two times larger than the a...
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350 MERS: 5 things to know

MERS-CoV, short for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, first surfaced in Saudi Arabia in spring 2012. As of J...
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349 Predictive Medicine Uses Genome Sequencing To Forecast Illness Before It Happens

What if doctors searched the genes of healthy people for sickness and disease before it even happened? Essentially, that...
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348 North Korean hackers ‘could kill’, warns key defector

North Korean hackers are capable of attacks that could destroy critical infrastructure and even kill people, a high-prof...
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347 Spaceports and sky farms: Is this how we’ll live in 100 years?

Looking out across the city and atop the skyscrapers before you are cows. Yes, you read that right. Farm animals content...
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346 Law goes into effect allowing derelict vacant houses to be demolished

A new law went into effect on Tuesday that allows local governments to demolish vacant houses that have been abandoned f...
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345 The Highest-Paying Jobs Of The Future Will Eat Your Life

For a glimpse of the future of work, especially the high-paying kind, look at finance and high-tech companies. Some of t...
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344 Abolish the Death Penalty

Recent polls indicate that the death penalty’s popularity is sinking with Titanic-like inevitability. A recent Pew Resea...
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343 These Are the 10 Most Purchased Brands in the World Right Now

Coca-Cola held onto its crown as the most-purchased brand in the world last year in spite of a push for healthier fare. ...
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342 Chef Jamie Oliver urges compulsory food lessons worldwide

Aboard an open-top London bus circling Britain's parliament, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is educating children about hea...
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341 LDP produces manga to make case for constitutional revision

The Liberal Democratic Party has published a new manga targeted at younger voters that argues the pacifist Constitution ...
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340 Audi just created a new diesel made of water and carbon dioxide

While a future of electric charging stations dotting our highways inches closer to reality, Audi believes it may have cr...