George Clooney is distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney‘s only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War American president to the Oscar-winning actor’s family tree.Politics has apparently run in the activist actor’s blood for centuries, as website Ancestry.com on Thursday revealed that the “Ocean’s 11″...

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Ivermectin hair lotion found effective against lice

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A single 10-minute hair application of a drug used in oral form since the 1980s to control river blindness and other parasitic diseases eliminated head lice in nearly three of four children in a new study.The lotion contains ivermectin and is sold under the brand name Sklice by Sanofi Pasteur,...

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Jobs Numbers Will Come Out on Friday, ‘as Scheduled’

affiliate marketing 11 a.m., Oct. 31, 2012 — The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed to me on Oct. 31 that it will release the monthly jobs report on schedule this Friday. That takes the wind out of the sails of conspiracy theorists, who speculated that the administration might use Hurricane Sandy as an excuse to delay a bad jobs...

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Hurricane’s death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean

affiliate marketing PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering.Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, with 51 of those coming in Haiti, which was pelted by three days of constant rains that ended only on Friday. affiliate...

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Hurricane Sandy wallops Internet commerce just as hard

affiliate marketing SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – From Fab.com to Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc, e-commerce companies scrambled on Tuesday to get goods to buyers on time after Hurricane Sandy tore a swathe of destruction across the U.S. northeast.The storm — which severed power to warehouses and offices, ripped up rails and roads and shuttered...

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Court rules against Polish rocker who tore up Bible

affiliate marketing WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland‘s Supreme Court opened the way on Monday for a blasphemy verdict against a rock musician who tore up a Bible on stage, a case that has pitted deep Catholic traditions against a new desire for free expression.Adam Darski, front man with a heavy metal group named Behemoth, ripped up a copy...

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AstraZeneca deepens collaboration with academia

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – British academic researchers have secured 7 million pounds ($ 11 million) of funding from the country’s Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate a range of potential new drugs made available free-of-charge by AstraZeneca.The move is the latest example of how the pharmaceutical industry is...

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Living standards ‘may stagnate’

affiliate marketing 30 October 2012 Last updated at 20:01 ETMillions of poor and middle-income households may be bypassed by any economic recovery, a think tank says. affiliate marketing The Resolution Foundation argues that their living standards could stagnate for the next 10 years,...

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Pole gets 30 years for killing 6 on Channel Island

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — A Polish builder who killed six people, including his wife and children, on the British Channel Island of Jersey has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Damian Rzeszowski, 31, carried out the knife attack in August 2011 at his home. He was said to have become depressed after his wife admitted to an...

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Facebook, Twitter abuzz with hurricane chatter

affiliate marketing Whether you call it Frankenstorm, Stormpocalypse or simply Hurricane Sandy, the giant weather system barreling into the East Coast is a favorite topic of conversation on social media from Facebook to Twitter. As people post updates to friends and family, relay emergency information and lighten the mood with humor,...

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