The Nobel Prize committee said it would stick with its decision to award a Nobel in medicine to Dr. Ralph M. Steinman for advances in immunology, even though he died on Friday.

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One of 3 Chosen for Nobel in Medicine Died Days Ago

Tech analysts rushed to make comments on Amazon’s latest additions to it Kindle Line — particularly the Kindle Fire tablet the company unveiled at a Wednesday event in New York. Overall, analysts seem to think the Kindle Fire will do well in the tablet space, and may likely emerge as the leading Android tablet. But this first edition shouldn’t be enough to unnerve Apple, even though it should take a glance in its rearview mirror. Read full article > >

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Kindle Fire a hit with analysts, though most say it’s no iPad killer

German Morales dressed for work in tattered painter’s jeans and a stained white T-shirt, even though he didn’t know when or whether he would paint again. He tucked a brush into his back left pocket and a rag into his right. He walked outside to the utility truck he had bought with the last money in his family’s emergency fund and called the only employee he had left. “I’ll let you know if I hear anything,” he said. Read full article > >

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Virginia house painter fights to keep business as recession becomes a way of life

Kandula is a regular elephant Einstein. The youngest pachyderm at the National Zoo flashed a moment of insight when he rolled a cube under a tasty branch, stood on the cube and stretched his trunk to grab a treat. Never before had scientists seen such an “aha!” moment in elephants, even though the animals recognize themselves in mirrors, drop logs on fences to get to food and even dig wells. Read full article > >

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National Zoo elephant has an ‘aha’ moment

HAVANA — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana and other cities on Sunday to mark May Day in a demonstration touted as a vast show of support for economic changes recently approved by the Communist Party — even though the people holding placards and shouting slogans haven’t seen the details yet.

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Cubans march in support of economic changes, despite lack of details of what they are

The Obama administration and its allies have been seeking a country, most likely in Africa, where Col. Muammar Gaddafi could legally stay if he’s forced out of Libya, even though the leader has marched through Tripoli’s streets in recent days and…

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D.C. police officers still do not have one of the most basic tools for catching drunk drivers, even though more than a year has passed since city officials promised to develop a new breath test program after errors and tainted court cases doomed the old one.

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Year after pledge, D.C. police still don’t have new breath-alcohol test program

The Japanese nuclear power plant crisis is triggering jitters about radioactive fall-out hitting the United States, even though experts say that’s highly unlikely.

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Japan crisis causes run on anti-radiation pills in U.S.

Boeing received a $35 billion contract even though it and its supporters had seemed to assume the European builder of Airbus planes would win.

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Boeing Wins Contract to Build Air Force Tankers

This could make come true predictions that Apple will surpass Exxon this year as the world’s most valuable company: TechCrunch says Apple could be releasing the iPad 3 this fall, even though the iPad 2 hasn’t even come out yet, and still won’t for…

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Let the price war begin: Verizon says it will offer unlimited data plans to its new iPhone customers, even though AT&T has placed caps on data use and Verizon executives have agreed the wireless world needs to move in that direction. But the…

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Verizon to Offer Unlimited iPhone Data

Two senior Lib Dems tell undercover Daily Telegraph reporters that they voted in favour of tuition fees even though they opposed the policy.

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Osborne ‘out of touch’ – Lib Dem

Advertisers aren’t the only ones looking to track your movements: The United States is collecting, storing, and analyzing data on thousands of American citizens, even though many of them are accused of no wrongdoing. According to The Washington Post,…

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U.S. Collecting Data on Citizens

Stuart Baggs says he won’t feature in the final task, even though other candidates will return.

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Apprentice star not invited back for final task

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood picks up a prize for the band’s album Exile on Main Street – even though he did not play on it.

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Stones star Wood jokes over award