Shots - Health Blog
4:05 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Robots Win Battle For Attention At Science Fair

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Budding scientists, engineers and doctors lined up to try surgical robots from Intuitive Surgical at a science festival in Washington, D.C., over the weekend.

Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 4:32 pm

Kids love robots.

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Religion
3:57 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

From Minister To Atheist: A Story Of Losing Faith

Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 8:33 pm

This is the first in a series of stories on losing faith.

Teresa MacBain has a secret, one she's terrified to reveal.

"I'm currently an active pastor and I'm also an atheist," she says. "I live a double life. I feel pretty good on Monday, but by Thursday — when Sunday's right around the corner — I start having stomachaches, headaches, just knowing that I got to stand up and say things that I no longer believe in and portray myself in a way that's totally false."

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The Salt
3:46 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Farmers Cheer Administration's About-Face On Limiting Teen Farm Work

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Farmers saw the administration's proposal as a threat to their way of life

Originally published on Tue May 1, 2012 8:41 am

When the Obama administration proposed new restrictions on teens working on farms last year, labor leaders and child welfare advocates cheered.

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It's All Politics
3:35 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Romney Campaign Tries To Reopen Obama-Clinton Primary Fight Wounds

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President Obama and former President Bill Clinton golf together in September 2011. The former president is campaigning for Obama, four years after the two men exchanged harsh words during the Democratic primary battle between Obama and then-Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Throughout the Republican primary campaign, opponents of Mitt Romney have handed President Obama lots of potential general-election fodder in their attacks on the front-runner.

And now that Romney is the presumptive GOP nominee, he's dipping back four years to the 2008 Democratic primary battle for some ammunition of his own.

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Europe
3:27 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Peace, Justice Elude Rape Victims Of Bosnian War

Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 10:50 am

Nearly two decades after the Bosnian War ended, thousands of Bosnian women who were victims of sexual violence are still seeking justice.

Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, commemorated the 20th anniversary of the start of the war this month with a young people's choir performing John Lennon's song "Give Peace a Chance." Row after row of empty red chairs marked the more than 11,500 people who died during the siege of the capital.

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The Two-Way
3:00 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

George Zimmerman's Defense Takes Case To The Web

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George Zimmerman during his bond hearing in a Seminole County, Fla., courtroom on April 20.

Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 3:08 pm

The legal defense team for George Zimmerman, the man accused of second-degree murder in the shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, has created a website, Facebook page and Twitter account to protest his interests.

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Business
2:55 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

In Cell Era, Timepieces Are Fashion Trend To Watch

Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 5:34 pm

Cellphones were once simple tools for making calls on the go. But the phones have quickly become all-purpose devices, used to send email, read articles, find restaurants — and tell time.

And as more people carry that tool in their pocket or purse, fewer are relying on wristwatches to keep on schedule.

Monica Espitia is one of them. "Since I've had a cellphone, I pretty much stopped wearing watches," she says. "Until I went on vacation and I didn't know what time it was."

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The Two-Way
2:46 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Obama: U.S. Always Brings Up Human Rights With Chinese

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U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on Monday.

Originally published on Mon April 30, 2012 3:17 pm

Although he did not directly address the whereabouts of blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, President Obama said when the United States talks to China, it always brings up "the issue of human rights."

"We think China will be stronger if it opens up and liberalizes its own system," the president said.

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It's All Politics
2:19 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Romney Pulls Jimmy Carter Into His Bin Laden Fight With Obama

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Mitt Romney fished for votes among fishermen in Portsmouth, NH, April 30, 2012.

Former President Jimmy Carter was no doubt minding his own business, which these days usually means being some place in the world doing good works, when his name came up in the 2012 presidential campaign, and not in a good way.

Talking to reporters Monday in New Hampshire, the unofficial GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, uttered Carter's name in defending himself against Democratic attempts to raise doubts about whether Romney, like President Obama, would have ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

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The Two-Way
1:49 pm
Mon April 30, 2012

Crash That Killed Seven Was Along 'Cursed' Stretch Of Bronx River Parkway

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This van plunged off the Bronx River Parkway on Sunday. All seven people inside were killed.

A horrible car accident Sunday in the Bronx, which killed seven people from one family, happened on a "cursed" section of the Bronx River Parkway where six people died in a terrible 2006 accident, New York's Daily News reports.

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