YellowBrix Top Headlines

• German, Frenchman Share 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for Discovery Used in Hard Disks
  STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery th...
• Minutes Apart, Suicide Car Bombers Kill at Least 10 in Northern Iraqi City
  BAGHDAD -- Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working...
• Cleveland Knocks Out Yanks
  NEW YORK -- Joe Borowski threw the final strike and the Cleveland Indians ran onto the infield to start the ce...
• Early Care Cuts Stroke Risk By 80%, Researchers Say
  Patients who get treatment within a day of having a minor stroke cut their risk of a second stroke by 80 perce...
• Wrecked Plane, 7 Bodies Found in the Cascades
  Oct. 9--Searchers late Monday found the bodies of seven people amid the wreckage of a single-engine plane tha...
• -One Tough Old Byrd Frustrates Yankees
  Oct. 9--Count Paul Byrd among the strange phenomena that baffled the Yankees in this American League Division ...
• GM and OnStar Create Innovative Technology to Help Save Lives
  General Motors (GM) and OnStar demonstrated today a powerful technology that will gradually and safely slow do...
• Mexican Politician Stripped of Berlin Marathon Title for Taking Short Cut
  MEXICO CITY - After a humiliating defeat in Mexico's presidential election last year, Roberto Madrazo appeared...
• On to Boston: Balanced Indians Make Key Plays, Eliminate Yankees
  Oct. 9--NEW YORK -- It takes a lot for Yankee Stadium to go quiet, even briefly. After watching their Yankees...
• All-Star Catcher Rodriguez Will Be Back for 5th Season With Tigers
  DETROIT - The Detroit Tigers have decided Ivan Rodriguez is worth another US$13 million. Detroit has exercised...

YellowBrix Top Technology

• Vonage to Pay Sprint $80 Million to Settle Patent Dispute
  Oct. 9--Vonage Holdings, an Internet telephone company, will pay Sprint Nextel Corp. about $80 million to sett...
• Interpol in Appeal to Find Prolific Child Abuser
  Interpol has launched its first ever appeal for help from the public to boost an international hunt for a prol...
• German, Frenchman Share 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for Discovery Used in Hard Disks
  STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery th...
• Chronically Ill With Access to Web Consume Information
  NEW YORK -- Americans with disabilities and other chronic conditions are less likely to use the Internet, but ...
• Photos of Suspected Pedophile Released
  PARIS -- He apparently traveled the world sexually abusing young boys, but remained unidentifiable -- until no...
• 'Manhunt 2' Still Banned in Britain
  British regulators on Monday banned a toned-down version of the violent videogame "Manhunt 2," saying the chan...
• Sprint Nextel CEO Quits; Failed to Lure Customers
  Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee stepped down after failing to wrest customers from Ver...
• The Next Software Acquisitions
  For decades, German software giant SAP (SAP) has been steadfast in its commitment to organic growth. But all ...
• GM and OnStar Create Innovative Technology to Help Save Lives
  General Motors (GM) and OnStar demonstrated today a powerful technology that will gradually and safely slow do...
• Investors Find Fault With Big Deal By SAP French Data-Mining Firm Deemed Pricey
  A 4.8 billion deal that would combine SAP, the world leader in business management software, with Business Ob...

YellowBrix Top Science

• Nobel Physics Award to German, Frenchman
  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded French and German scientists the Nobel Prize in physi...
• Intelligent Design is a Religious Belief Dressed Up to Masquerade As a Science
  IN ALASTAIR Noble's letter (October 8), he states that intelligent design is a highly scientific position rath...
• Professor Stanislav Andreski
  Sociologist whose wartime escape from Poland informed his later work on military organisation Stanislav Andres...
• Institute for Systems Biology Completes Purchase of Cyntellect LEAP(TM) System
  SAN DIEGO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyntellect, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company, today announced t...
• Huge Prestige: Colleagues Are Ecstatic
  Scientists at the University of Utah are ecstatic about Mario Capecchi's Nobel Prize. Besides their intense j...
• Alpha Natural Resources Wins Top National Reclamation Honor for Second Consecutive Year
  The award, given by the National Association of State Land Reclamationists (NASLR), recognizes Paramont's inno...
• The Breakthrough of 'Gene Targeting'
  It also lies at the heart of the international effort to use embryonic stem cells for regenerative medicine. T...
• Physics Nobel Goes to German, Frenchman
  STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery tha...
• Researchers in Stem Cell Science Get Nobel Prize
  A team of stem cell researchers were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday, for groundbreaking di...
• High School Wins Grants for Math, Science Efforts ; Bergen Academies Recognized
  HACKENSACK Bergen Academies has been recognized as a "Star Innovator" for its creative use of math, science a...

YellowBrix Top US News

• Three Men Charged With Murdering Athlete
  Three men were charged with murder on Monday in the shooting of a football player on the University of Memphis...
• Seven Dead in Washington State Plane Crash
  Recovery teams searched a wooded area near Boise, Idaho, Tuesday looking for three skydivers missing after a s...
• Search for Steve Fossett Scaled Back in Nevada
  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- With winter closing in, efforts to find aviator Steve Fossett have dwindled -- along...
• Fall From Balloon Kills Woman at N.M. Festival
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- One of hundreds of balloons in town for a festival tipped after snagging a utility l...
• Oregon Teacher Wants to Take Gun to School
  MEDFORD, Ore. -- High school English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to wor...
• Abductor of 2 Boys Gets Life Term
  UNION, Mo. -- A former pizzeria manager who snatched a teen off a rural road -- a crime that led to the discov...
• Girlfriend's Rebuff Set Off 6-Death Rampage
  CRANDON, Wis. -- A young sheriff's deputy who opened fire on a pizza party and killed six people reportedly fl...
• Atlantic City Ready to Write Off Mayor
  Oct. 9--ATLANTIC CITY -- In this betting town, they were wagering yesterday on just when the murk would clear...
• Wrecked Plane, 7 Bodies Found in the Cascades
  Oct. 9--Searchers late Monday found the bodies of seven people amid the wreckage of a single-engine plane tha...
• 'IT WAS AWFUL' ; Bystanders Help Frantically, but Passenger Falls to Death
  Bystanders frantically engaged in a "tug of war" to free a balloon snagged on a cable Monday in the minutes be...

YellowBrix Top Health

• Chronically Ill With Access to Web Consume Information
  NEW YORK -- Americans with disabilities and other chronic conditions are less likely to use the Internet, but ...
• Chemo Raises Heart Risks?
  WASHINGTON -- Breast cancer survivors may face increased risk of heart disease -- and doctors are debating if ...
• Does Bad Marriage = Bad Heart?
  CHICAGO -- A lousy marriage might literally make you sick. Marital strife and other bad personal relationships...
• Stored Blood May Lose Vital Chemical
  WASHINGTON -- Much of the stored blood given to millions of people every year may lack a component vital for i...
• Genetics Giant -- U. Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine
  University of Utah scientist Mario R. Capecchi has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine, an honor he shares wi...
• Early Care Cuts Stroke Risk By 80%, Researchers Say
  Patients who get treatment within a day of having a minor stroke cut their risk of a second stroke by 80 perce...
• Prize Puts UNC Center on Display
  Oct. 9--CHAPEL HILL--The human genetic code, scientist Oliver Smithies said, is like a series of thousands of...
• Scientists Offer a Reason for the Appendix
  A new study indicates it may serve as a reservoir for good bacteria in the intestines. WASHINGTON -- Some ...
• The Breakthrough of 'Gene Targeting'
  It also lies at the heart of the international effort to use embryonic stem cells for regenerative medicine. T...
• Researchers in Stem Cell Science Get Nobel Prize
  A team of stem cell researchers were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday, for groundbreaking di...