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Longest indoor ski tunnel | | Christina Macfarlane explores how the Swedish Cross Country team trains for the Winter Olympics in the middle of summer. |
Autonomous quadcopter takes humans out of flying equation | | Sept. 19 - A group of Austrian students has designed a quadcopter which flies autonomously using only the computing power of a smartphone. The reasearchers say the drone could one day be used for search and rescue scenarios or fighting fires without putting humans in harm's way. Jim Drury reports. |
Snowden Appeals to U.S. for Clemency | | In a letter handed to a German politician, the former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden said that my government continues to treat dissent as defection. |
Beware cultu-phobia | | Ruben Navarrette says a recent TV show caused a rash of "cultuphobia" the fear that another person's culture is taking over your own |
New view of drone death toll | | The debate over the number of civilian casualties caused by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan is perhaps the most contentious issue in the often fraught U.S.-Pakistan relationship. |
Meet Andy Murray's Mum | | Tennis parents don't always have the best of reputations. Think Damir Dokic, John Tomic and Jim Pierce. However, Andy Murray's Mum is a very different breed. |
Well Children, Too, Need Flu Shots | | Flu vaccination is recommended for everyone 6 months or older, though many parents dont think of flu as being very serious, especially if their child has no health problems. |
Gold iPhones sold out til October | | With the latest iPhone handsets going on sale in 11 countries and territories Friday, there will be the usual lines of diehard fans snaking around popular Apple stores. |
Fred Vogelsteins Dogfight | | A journalist goes behind the bitter rivalry between Apple and Google, and how its reshaping the way we think about technology. |
Phys Ed How Music Can Boost Our Workouts | | Making music and not just listening to it while exercising makes the exercise easier, a remarkable new experiment finds, suggesting that the human love of music may have evolved, in part, to ease physical effort. |
Portman Science's hero? | | Natalie Portman, the star of new Hollywood blockbuster Thor 2, is one of the world's most famous actors -- so why is she aiming to inspire a new generation of female scientists? |
UKs Osborne has faith in U.S. | | Oct. 22 - UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne says U.S. politicians recognise the serious consequences of a default, and hopes that financial services arent excluded from any transatlantic trade deal. |
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