Awkward and Offbeat
Survey Finds Bad Behavior Is Pervasive Among Medical Personnel
Some of the crazy antics popular on television medical dramas or daytime television surrounding a...

• Airline Apologizes After Kicking Mom, Unruly Toddler Off Flight
• Halloween Robber Uses Teletubby Costume
• British Man Allergic To His Own Wife
 

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Business and Finance
Corn profits rebound helps ADM to year high
Archer Daniels Midland shares jump 6% after its corn processing unit exploits higher sugar and ethanol prices to return solidly into the black

• US Federal Reserve expected to hold rock-bottom rates
• CIT bankruptcy plan may win OK at December 8 hearing
• TwitterPeek: The First Twitter-Only Mobile Device
 

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Entertainment
New Spoon album in early 2010
Spoon [ tickets ] 's new album, "Transference," will be released in the US on Jan. 26, according to a press release. The album is the band's first full length release since 2007's "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga." In related news, the band's first four albums--"Telephono," "A Series Of Sneaks," "Girls Can Tell" and "Kill The Moonlight"--made their digital debut Sept. 29. The albums can be purchased and downloaded via the band's website . On ...

• The Tragically Hip cancel Colorado, Minnesota shows
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Trailer!
• Landau Still Taken By Direction Of 'North By Northwest'
 

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Sports
Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini struggles with ouster of GM
Browns coach Eric Mangini is not offering any details about the team's unexplained dismissal of his friend, general manager George Kokinis.

• Culliver won't play vs. Arkansas
• CRICKET-CUP-TOSS/TEAMS CCC win toss, batting vs Guyana - 2nd semi-final
• Stanley future secured
 

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Technology
A 'spoonful of sugar' makes the worms' life span go down
If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes. Researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, say it might also be taking years off your life.

• Yeast in a shell: Coating individual living yeast cells with silicon dioxide
• Drunken fruit flies help scientists find potential drug target for alcoholism
• Zooming in on data
 

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World
EU Lisbon Treaty: William Hague confrims Tories will not hold referendum
William Hague says referendum "no longer possible" after Czech President Vaclav Klaus removed the last obstacle to full ratification.

• Problems of Abortion and Immigration to Be Solved Before Landmark Health Care Vote
• Karadzic defiant over boycott at first court appearance
• Trial of ex-Argentine dictator underway