Updated 12:05 a.m. ETBoth coasts of the country are dealing with unusual weather this week during an especially challenging time. An estimated 93 million Americans are expected to drive or fly more than 50 miles from home for the holidays. In the Sierra Mountains, they're dealing with three feet of snow in some spots. From the possibility of tornados to heavy snowfall, there is great potential...
Newtown Christmas: 'We Know They'll Feel Loved'
Labels: Business As residents prepared to observe Christmas less than two weeks after a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school, people sharing in the town's mourning brought offerings of cards, handmade snowflakes and sympathy.Tiny empty Christmas stockings with the victims' names on them hung from trees in the neighborhood where the children were shot. On Christmas...
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Dangerous liaisons: Fatal animal attractions
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NATO worker killed by woman in Afghan police uniform
Labels: LifestyleBy Masoud Popalzai, CNNupdated 6:22 AM EST, Mon December 24, 2012Afghan policemen stand guard at the site where a female police officer shot dead a foreign civilian adviser. STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Monday's incident is the first to involve a female shooterNEW: On Sunday, a police commander killed five officersOfficials do not know if the woman is indeed part of the Afghan policeA Pentagon report says...
New posssible"insider" attack in Afghanistan
Labels: Health Updated 4:15 a.m.EST KABUL, Afghanistan An Afghan policewoman shot and killed an American adviser outside the police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, a senior Afghan official said. The circumstances of the killing were not immediately clear but the shooting could be another insider attack by Afghans against their foreign allies. A NATO command spokesman, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Lester T. Carroll,...
Get 'em While You Can? Gun Sales Soar
Labels: Business The National Rifle Association may still get its way and defeat the lawmakers calling for a ban on the sale of assault ridles, but some gun store owners say it seems their customers aren't taking any chances."We have never seen anything like this," said Larry Hyatt, who owns a gun shop in Charlotte, N.C. "We have the Christmas business, the hunting season business, and now we...
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Today on New Scientist: 21 December 2012
Labels: World Cadaver stem cells offer new hope of life after death Stem cells can be extracted from bone marrow five days after death to be used in life-saving treatmentsApple's patents under fire at US patent office The tech firm is skating on thin ice with some of the patents that won it a $1 billion settlement against SamsungHimalayan dam-building threatens endemic species The world's highest mountains...
Norovirus kills six in Japanese hospital
Labels: Technology TOKYO: The norovirus has killed six elderly people in a rural Japanese hospital and infected dozens of other patients and staff, officials said on Sunday.The winter bug, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, has killed six patients in their 70s and 80s since December 12, the officials from the Shunko-kai Higashi Hospital in southern Miyazaki prefecture said.Another 24 patients and 14 staff...
Two sides of gun debate are worlds apart
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSThe NRA wants to staff every school in America with "qualified armed security"Obama, Democrats and others see tougher gun control as the way to limit future massacresWhile both sides want to keep children safe, it seems they are living in two different worldsWashington (CNN) -- For National Rifle Association Vice President Wayne LaPierre and many other pro-gun Americans, the task is...
Newtown parents reject NRA plan
Labels: Health NEWTOWN, Conn. When Adam Lanza started his lethal attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, Andrei Nikitchyuk's eight year-old son and another third grader were on their way to the principal's office. It was their turn to bring the daily attendance sheet to the front office, near where principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist Mary Sherlach would become the first casualties inside the school. Play...
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