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A caterpillar plague in Liberia is spreading and has now affected 400,000 people in more than 100 villages in the West African nation, the U.N. said Wednesday.

Deborah M. House, vice president and deputy general counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel, has done her share of job hunting and hiring. She estimates she has pursued and been offered 10 jobs in her career -- she has been rejected for three -- and has hired 50 people from hundreds of candidates. So House feels she is in a strong position to offer advice to in-house lawyers who've been laid off or downsized in the current economic calamity and are looking for work.

The parents of a foreign exchange student from Italy critically wounded in a downtown shooting rampage haven't let the tragedy sour them on America and want her to complete her studies here.Susanna De Sousa, 18, was the most seriously injured of the seven people who survived the gunfire outside The Zone, an under-21 nightspot, late Saturday.'We'd like her to continue her experience,' said her father, Americo De Sousa, who arrived here Monday with his wife. 'We want our kids to live their lives.'

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, for 13 consecutive years, tells NPR that people are more nervous and anxious than in years past. He says the big question is: 'When is Washington going to get well?'

On August 1, 1966, the day psychiatrist Stuart Brown started his assistant professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 25-year-old Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower on the Austin campus and shot 46 people. Whitman, an engineering student and a former U.S. Marine sharpshooter, was the last person anyone expected to go on a killing spree. After Brown was assigned as the state’s consulting psychiatrist to investigate the incident and later, when he interviewed 26 convicted Texas murderers for a small pilot study, he discovered that most of the killers, including Whitman, shared two things in common: they were from abusive families, and they never played as kids.Brown did not know which factor was more important. But in the 42 years since, he has interviewed some 6,000 people about their childhoods, and his data suggest that a lack of opportunities for unstructured, imaginative play can keep children from growing into happy, well-adju

Jan 22 -- Match.com is set to launch a multimillion pound nationwide advertising push.In 2008 match.com focused on tempting people to try online dating and making it the new natural way to find a partner.

Conventional traffic engineering assumes that given no increase in vehicles, more roads mean less congestion. So when planners in Seoul tore down a six-lane highway a few years ago and replaced it with a five-mile-long park, many transportation professionals were surprised to learn that the city’s traffic flow had actually improved, instead of worsening. “People were freaking out,” recalls Anna Nagurney, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who studies computer and transportation networks. “It was like an inverse of Braess’s paradox.”The brainchild of mathematician Dietrich Braess of Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, the eponymous paradox unfolds as an abstraction: it states that in a network in which all the moving entities rationally seek the most efficient route, adding extra capacity can actually reduce the network’s overall efficiency. The Seoul project inverts this dynamic: closing a highway--that is, reducing network

The thyroid glands are two small glands found at the base of the neck. Small as they are, they play a very important role in our body. So why is this awareness campaign so important to our BOL readers? Because 60 million people in the US are suffering from some form ...

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