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	Bankia compensation qualms signal loss of faith in Spain's banks By Sonya Dowsett MADRID (Reuters) - Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favor of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a mis-selling scandal and complicating efforts to restore faith in the banking system. The disputes over mis-selling at Bankia and other nationalized banks have created a major headache for the government as it tries to take the next step in their rescue, imposing large losses on holders of junior debt. ... Read More » GM gearing up for big ad push for crucial new pickups: executive By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - The launch of General Motors Co's redesigned Chevrolet Silverado, the most important since the automaker's bankruptcy and $50 billion taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009, is on track and advertising for its full-size trucks should begin in a few weeks, a top GM executive said on Monday. Mark Reuss, head of GM's North American operations, said the launch of the 2014 Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups is going "really good" and there had been no hiccups to slow the rollout. ... Read More » Caterpillar machinery sales down 9 percent in April, led by Asia CHICAGO (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said on Monday that retail demand for its construction and mining equipment continued to be sluggish in April, though the sales picture appeared to be improving in almost every market outside North America. The Peoria, Illinois-based company said worldwide dealer sales of its earth-moving machines fell 9 percent in April from the prior year. That represented an improvement from March, when sales were down 11 percent, and February, when sales were down 13 percent. ... Read More »

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	Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News
	Therapy at Work? Bosses Say Yes Bosses who help their employees deal with emotional problems shouldn't expect much gratitude or loyalty for their efforts, new research shows. Read More » Normal or Not? New Psychiatric Manual Stirs Controversy As of May 22, many mental disorders will never be the same. The full nature of the changes — some quite controversial —will become apparent with the publication of the latest edition of the mental health manual that classifies these disorders. Read More » Kava Plant May Treat Anxiety An extract from the kava plant can treat people with chronic anxiety, an study from Australia finds. Read More » Do E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit? Smokers who wish to quit commonly use electronic cigarettes to help them, despite the lack of evidence that the devices work, a new study finds. Read More » Brilliant Science Blunders: Astrophysicist Mario Livio Speaks Out Everyone makes mistakes — even Einstein. The truth is, many of the world's greatest scientists made significant blunders along the path toward genius, which should be comforting news for the rest of us. Read More » Fighting to Save an Endangered Bird — With Vomit A psychological warfare program centered on vomit could help save the marbled murrelet, an endangered seabird that nests in California's old-growth redwood forests. Read More » Dogs Show IQ Tests Aren't So Smart (Op-Ed) Read More » Is Google's Quantum Computer Worth the Hype? Google's announcement last week that it plans to launch a new quantum computing laboratory with NASA may have boosted a highly specialized and slightly obscure field of study into a more mainstream light. The search-engine giant says quantum technology will help the company build better, more accurate search engines, and will help advance the field of artificial intelligence. Read More » Could Drones Revolutionize Agriculture? SAN MATEO, Calif. — The word "drone" tends to conjure up images of planes that kill terrorists or of creepy surveillance tools. Read More » Not My Kid: Most Parents Unaware Teen Is Using Study Drugs Many parents are not aware that their teenage children abuse "study drugs," a new poll suggests. Read More » Costa Rica Has a Sea Turtle Egg-Poaching Problem Besides being beautiful, Costa Rica's beaches are the nesting sites of four endangered sea turtle species, which return each year to lay their eggs. But there is trouble in paradise for these reptiles, namely, from egg thieves. Read More »

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	Online takeout companies GrubHub and Seamless to merge By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two of the nation's biggest online food delivery businesses said they are merging in a deal that they hope will drive more orders, in more cities, through their platforms. GrubHub and Seamless, which allow consumers to easily order online from various restaurants, are part of a group of fast-growing businesses that standardize local services under a national umbrella. Think restaurant reservations, where OpenTable dominates, or car services, where privately held startups such as Uber are making significant inroads. ... Read More »

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	Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide hurricane struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to Minnesota. Earlier, a "large tornado" touched down near Wichita, Kansas at 3:45 Central Standard time, the National Weather Service reported. Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska are all in the path of the storm system, which is producing 70 mile per hour winds, baseball-sized hail and violent tornadoes. ... Read More » Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide tornado struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to Minnesota. At 6:12 p.m. Central Standard time, the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma issued an insistent alert on Twitter about tornado striking Pink, a town on the edge of Oklahoma City. "Large tornado west of Pink!" the post read. ... Read More » Looking for Climate Change Believers? Start in America Furious wildfires in California, massive droughts across the Plains states, and flooding in the Midwest. All are happening right now, earlier and more dangerously than any time in recent history. All are examples of climate change in America. Read More » Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists said on Sunday. Warming is still on track, however, to breach a goal set by governments around the world of limiting the increase in temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, unless tough action is taken to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions. ... Read More » Stormier Paradise: More Hurricanes Predicted for Hawaii Scientists have suggested climate change may mean fewer tropical cyclones in coming years, but a closer look at how global warming affects regional weather patterns reveals Hawaiians should expect more hurricane-force gales. Read More » Warmer weather helps farmers in ND start fieldwork Warmer, drier weather conditions have helped farmers in North Dakota start fieldwork. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that producers were able to start preparing fields ... Read More » Al Gore's ballooning fortune: By the numbers After losing the excruciatingly close 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, Al Gore firmly stepped off the political stage. But the former vice president didn't let the disappointment drag him down. In the years since, Gore has won an unlikely pile of accolades, including a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, and an Oscar for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Along the way, he has also amassed a personal fortune rivaling that of another fabulously wealthy losing presidential candidate: Mitt Romney. Here, a look at Gore's nest egg, by the numbers: $1. ... Read More » Cooler weather aids fight against Calif. wildfire CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Cool, moist air moving into Southern California on Sunday helped firefighters build containment lines around a huge wildfire burning through coastal mountains. Read More » More storms, tornadoes expected in central United States (Reuters) - Violent thunderstorms were forecast to hit the central United States on Monday, threatening to bring additional hail, heavy rain and tornadoes to the region stricken by a deadly twister during the weekend. The National Weather Service said severe storms would hit the Ozarks and the middle Mississippi Valley, with the greatest risk in northwest Arkansas, far southeast Kansas, southern Missouri, most of Oklahoma and northern Texas. "A very moist atmosphere will become quite unstable again today," the forecasters said. ... Read More » Another Pack of Storms Are Heading Through the Midwest Mother nature isn't going to give the Midwest a chance to breathe today: after a pack of tornadoes tore through the region on Sunday, the National Weather Service warned of more severe weather on the way this week, with Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas expected to take the next round of brutal thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service writes: Read More » The time's not right for Tesla I hadn't seen a Tesla Model S electric car up close until this weekend, and when I did, we fell in love. Alas, even if i could afford the sticker price, a hefty $62,400 or so for a base model, I wouldn't be able to leave the lot smugly satisfied that I was doing my part as a good liberal to combat global climate change. Read More » Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide tornado struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to Minnesota. Earlier, a "large tornado" touched down near Wichita, Kansas at 3:45 Central Standard time, the National Weather Service reported. Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska are all in the path of the storm system, which is producing 70 mile per hour winds, baseball-sized hail and violent tornadoes. ... Read More » Supreme Court declines to hear Alaska climate change case By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Alaskan village's claim that it should be able to sue oil companies and utilities for damages attributed to climate change. Lawyers for the village of Kivalina wanted various named defendants responsible for greenhouse emissions, including Exxon Mobil Corp, Chevron Corp and Duke Energy Corp, to pay damages for greater flooding and erosion that they say have caused by a reduction in sea ice. The court's refusal to take the case means an appeals court ruling in favor of the defendants remains intact. ... Read More »

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	Britain's Cameron tells Google and others to play fair on tax LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday told Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and other business leaders that he expected their companies to pay their taxes in exchange for benefiting from low tax rates. Cameron's intervention came days after British lawmakers accused Google of using "smoke and mirrors" to avoid paying tax, fuelling a debate over corporate taxation that has angered the public and led to calls for a tougher approach from the government. ... Read More » Samsung Galaxy S4 Active revealed in leaked photos Among the many new variants of the Galaxy S4 Samsung has planned is the Galaxy S4 Active, a ruggedized version of the company's popular smartphone. Details have trickled out over the past few weeks since Samsung confirmed that the phone is being developed, and now the Galaxy S4 Active has been revealed for the first time in purported leaked photos. GSMArena published the images on Monday, and they show a smartphone with a design that strays from the original S4. A shot of the handset's "About" screen also reveals a quad-core Qualcomm processor and a full-HD 1080p display. Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S4 Active in the coming weeks but in the meantime, several leaked photos of the phone follow Read More » Samsung takes on Google and Apple with highest-resolution notebook display in the world Samsung on Monday announced a new super-high resolution display for laptop computers. The company revealed a 13.3-inch QHD display with a resolution of 3200 x 1800 and a pixel density of 276 ppi. The display's pixels are packed even tighter on Samsung's new panels than on Google's Chromebook Pixel and Apple's MacBook Pro with a Retina display. The Chromebook Pixel previously featured the highest laptop resolution display with a 2560 × 1700 pixel resolution and 239 ppi, while the Retina MacBook Pro features a 2560 x 1600 pixel display and 227 ppi. Samsung claims its displays are 30% more power efficiency than existing LCD displays. The company gave no details about when we may see these displays arrive in future products. Read More »

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	Witness: AEG spent $24 million on Jackson concerts LOS ANGELES (AP) — An accounting executive for AEG Live LLC says the company spent $24 million producing Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" concerts. Read More »

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	White House says counsel told April 24 of preliminary IRS findings WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House acknowledged on Monday that its counsel was told on April 24 about the preliminary findings of an IRS audit that eventually showed Internal Revenue Service employees had targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, later informed the White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other senior staff members about the politically damaging preliminary findings of inappropriate activity by some IRS employees. ... Read More »

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	Senators want fingerprint checks at airports Foreigners leaving the country would be subjected to the checks at the busiest airports. Read More » Five die in van crash along Illinois highway VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say five people were killed and six others injured when a van in which they were riding left a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times. Read More » Bomb attacks kill more than 70 across Iraq The bombings increase the death toll in clashes in the past week to more than 200. Read More » NYPD to increase presence after bias killing NEW YORK (AP) — A spate of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting police to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods heading into what's usually a time for celebration. Read More »