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The Project for Excellence studying The Daily Show doesn't believe many people get their news from Jon Stewart, because otherwise they wouldn't get the jokes.They also said it was surprised at how much The Daily Show resembles The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball and other cable news shows in regards to content.

Credit companies are using the Facebook social networking site to target young people, a debt charity has warned.

.... are stored in a particularly robust way by the brain. This renders effective treatment very difficult.

It takes a certain mindset to drive in Dubai: a take-no-prisoners attitude coupled with nerves of steel. This Gulf city, which boasts stunning wealth and spectacular skyscrapers, is also home to an alarmingly large number of suicidal drivers, and one of them was at the wheel of my taxi as we careened off a Dubai highway and onto a side road...

This could be the Supreme Court term, one court watcher joked recently, that Justice John Paul Stevens remembers he is a Republican. A 1975 appointee of President Gerald Ford, Stevens is regarded as the anchor of the court's liberal wing. But he has joined with his more conservative colleagues in three high-profile cases...

We've all heard of Pavlov's dogs, the famous canines trained by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov to associate food with the sound of a bell. Now, scientists have found that bacteria may be capable of similar behavior--an ability never seen in such simple organisms.

President Bush, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the big automakers agree on this much: They love hydrogen-powered fuel cell technology and its promise of a zero-emission, petroleum-free future.

The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods.

Barack Obama had not been in politics for long when he got his tail whipped by a veteran Chicago Congressman in his own backyard. Obama couldn't win any of the black vote. The only ward he won was the White, Working-class Irish Catholic 19th ward- a conservative community of cops, firefighters and schoolteachers.

A former MTV executive reveals a homosexual subculture in an aggressively male business.

The Brits thought Yank Malcolm Glazer was crazy when he paid $1.5 billion for Manchester United in 2005. We then valued the club at $1.25 billion. Today, we peg Man U's worth at $1.8 billion, making it the top dog in our latest annual ranking of the world's most valuable soccer teams.

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs, a family of molecules that regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizophrenia and possibly other brain disorders.

Refugees from the Burmese cyclone face second battle for survival

he Kung Fu king who uses his finger to smash coconuts is retiring the digit to enjoy life out of the limelight. Ho Eng Hui has been delighting audiences in Malaysia every weekend by using his index finger to smash the tough shells of coconuts but now the martial arts master says everything points to an easier life.

An insular industry built on horses and gambling is out of step, out of touch and out of sync with contemporary American culture.

Many of nature's deepest mysteries come in threes. Why does space have three spatial dimensions (ones that we can see, anyway)? Why are there three fundamental dimensions in physics (mass M, length L and time T)? Why three fundamental constants in nature (Newton's gravitational constant G, the speed of light c and Planck's constant h)?

Some patients’ noisy artificial hips are interrupting daily life and raising questions about more serious problems.

Chart showing price and market penetration of consumer electronics over the past 50 years.

Construction of the new zero-emission city started last week. It will eventually house 50,000 people & 1,500 businesses. The energy efficient buildings and infrastructure will require less energy to start with, and what little energy they do require will be supplied entirely from renewable energy sources.

A Better Place, run by Israelis Shai Agassi and Idan Ofer have funded and are testing an electric car for the first time. take a look in the revolutionary car that may change in 2 years the fuel industry.