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• Madonna’s daughter seen smoking
  In a snapshot that quickly made the tabloids, Madonna’s daughter, 15-year-old Lourdes Leon Ciccone, is seen smoking a cigarette with friends on a ...
• The rise of ‘angel’ investors
  In 2009, Steve Woda and his brother Tim dreamed up a new company: an Internet-based service that would help inform parents about how to ...
• Geek like me
  College, like many rites of passage in America, is all about wandering. So when the daughter of some friends headed off to college this fall, ...
• Movie industry hasn't stopped smoking, but it has...
  Moviegoers are much less likely to see scenes depicting smoking these days, but Hollywood could do more to keep tobacco images away from kids ...
• 'Drill, baby, drill' era may be gone forever
  One year after the Gulf oil spill was first contained, the offshore oil industry is struggling to adjust to a new normal that could affect the ...
• Brazil's new plan to beat poverty
  With a monthly stipend that she receives from the Brazilian government, Clemilda dos Santos can now keep the refrigerator stocked for her 10 ...
• Gas prices set to drop in U.S.: experts
  U.S. drivers may finally be getting a break at the pump. Some say prices could be as much as 30 cents a gallon lower by the upcoming Memorial Day ...
• The buzz around Commoner Kate
  LONDON — The most anticipated wedding since that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer takes place April 29 at 11 a.m., when the eldest son ...
• Fear of radiation exceeds risks: scientists
  Fukushima is not Chernobyl, scientists repeat, and even Chernobyl was not as deadly as popularly believed. Dire warnings of radiation spreading ...
• Life Partners?
  The orange hydrocarbon haze that shrouds Saturn’s frosty moon Titan could be creating the molecules that make up DNA without the help of water — ...
• Can Move and Kinect save a sagging video game industry?
  In 2006, Nintendo released a slim, slanted console called the Wii. Unlike the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, the Wii was a pretty ...
• Moses’ parting of the Red Sea: is there a...
  Actor Charlton Heston made an impressive-looking crossing guard on the wind-swept shore of the Red Sea in Cecil B. DeMille’s film “The Ten ...
• Mother Teresa's work spurred growth of 'voluntourism'
  Mother Teresa may be remembered most today — her 100th birthday anniversary was Aug. 26 — for her lifelong work with the poor. But she also ...
• Study shows racial divide
  That’s one stark conclusion of an annual “State of Black America” report, issued by the National Urban League, a civil rights group based in New ...
• Break in the food chain
  That’s the broad conclusion from a study released last week that looked into a century’s worth of measurements of the abundance of phytoplankton ...
• iCash?
  Why the reprieve? Simple: Why throw out something that ain’t broke?While refurbishers have spiffed up PCs for years, a new cottage industry ...