MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Sloane Stephens sat for nine minutes, mostly staring at the court and trying to forget the curious timing of Victoria Azarenka's medical timeout. She may have been the only one trying to ignore it.The 19-year-old American had just saved five match points and broken Azarenka. But she knew she had to hold serve to stay in her first Grand Slam semifinal whenever Azarenka —...
NASA testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket
Labels: WorldHUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth’s orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape.The engine, known to NASA engineers as No. F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts to the moon for the first time. The flight went off without...
Neanderthal cloning? Pure fantasy
Labels: LifestyleA display of a reconstruction of a Neanderthal man and boy at the Museum for Prehistory in Eyzies-de-Tayac, France.STORY HIGHLIGHTSArthur Caplan: It would be unethical to try and clone a Neanderthal baby Caplan: Downsides include a good chance of producing a baby that is seriously deformedHe says the future belongs to what we can do to genetically engineer and control microbesCaplan: Microbes can...
Victim: Bullets so intense 'waves of heat clouded' her vision
Labels: Health David Coleman Headley, the terrorist who played a key planning role in the Mumbai massacre that killed more than 160 people...
North Korea to target U.S. with nuclear, rocket tests
Labels: BusinessSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "sworn enemy". The announcement by the country's top military body came a day after the U.N. Security Council agreed to a U.S.-backed resolution to censure and sanction North...
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S&P up for sixth day, Apple slip could halt rally
Labels: WorldNEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 rose for a sixth day on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected profits from IBM and Google but the rally could be halted as Apple's after-hours miss sent its shares lower. The S&P was just 4.7 percent from its all-time closing high as IBM's and Google's earnings, released after Tuesday's close, followed on the heels of stronger U.S. economic data....
Seau's family sues NFL over brain injuries
Labels: TechnologyAdd Junior Seau's family to the thousands of people who are suing the NFL over the long-term damage caused by concussions.Seau's ex-wife and four children sued the league Wednesday, saying the former linebacker's suicide was the result of brain disease caused by violent hits he sustained while playing football.The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in San Diego, blames the...
Kerry divests holdings in Cdn oil companies amid conflict of interest concerns
Labels: WorldWASHINGTON – John Kerry and his wife have agreed to divest holdings in a Canadian oil company, as well as dozens of other investments, in an effort to avoid conflicts of interest as the Massachusetts senator prepares to become America’s next secretary of state.The Canadian Press reported last week that Kerry had as much as US$ 750,000 invested in Suncor, a Calgary-based oil company whose CEO has urged...
Benghazi blame-game is useless
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2 men died in high-rise fire after rescuing elderly woman: officials
Labels: HealthA high-rise fire on Chicago's south side killed two men and seriously injured a woman. The two men who died in a South Shore...
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