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| Summer of the mega flop | | | July 26 - Hollywood is delivering mega-budget flops this summer- and may need to be rethinking its box office strategy Bobbi Rebell reports. |
| Carnegie Mellon robots aim to please | | | June 26 - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are designing modern day butlers - service robots that will one day help people with tasks like fetching coffee and cleaning up the kitchen. Ben Gruber has more. |
| A boost for drained mobile devices - NY gets public solar charging stations | | | July 22 - New Yorkers in need of a charge can now head to public spaces, where solar powered charging stations offer a free boost to mobile devices. Apart from providing everyday convenience, the stations could be crucial during devastating power outages like those caused by Hurricane Sandy last year. Sharon Reich has more. |
| Revelations by Rowling | | | J. K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame, shared a bit of the back story of her new book, written as Robert Galbraith. |
| Well Nightmares After the I.C.U. | | | Patients who have prolonged stays, getting intubated and sedated, may experience severe hallucinations, putting them at risk of PTSD for years to come, studies show. |
| 'It felt like a roller coaster' | | | One minute, Stephen Ward was writing in his journal. The next, he was covered in blood. The 18-year-old was one of scores of people hurt when a train in Spain derailed and smashed into a concrete wall. Nearly 80 were killed. |
| Real Estate Q A | | | Water damage in a Co-op; upgrading a kitchen at your own expense in a stabilized apartment; and capital-gains taxes are addressed in this weeks installment. |
| U.S. Letter Says Leaker Wont Face Death Penalty | | | In a letter to the Russian minister of justice, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the United States was also willing to issue a passport to Edward J. Snowden so he could return to the country. |
| Dubai ruler pardons alleged rape victim | | | A Norwegian woman who was sentenced to prison after reporting she was raped in Dubai has been given a pardon, a spokeswoman for Norway's Foreign Ministry said. |
| Singing priests revive Catholicism | | | A Catholic priest is at the forefront of a Brazilian movement known as the Charismatic Catholic Renovation, trying to invigorate the Church and lure new and old followers back to the fold. |
| Ecuador's poor press freedom | | | Ecuador has a poor track record on press freedom, so why would it help Edward Snowden? CNN speaks to a local investigative journalist who blew the whistle in a presidential corruption case. |
| Dollar hits five-week low on Fed caution, Wall St recovers | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell to a five-week low on Friday on expectations the Federal Reserve will underline its intention to keep interest rates low for a long time at its upcoming policy meeting, while U.S. stocks managed to recover late in the day to end with a slim gain. |
| TS Dorian weakens while moving rapidly westward -NHC | | | Tropical storm Dorian, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has become disorganized and is likely to weaken further over the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. |
| Watch North Korean show | | | Ivan Watson attends the North Korean mass games, a show that highlights progress made and how far they still have to go. |
| The Boss New Roads to Learning | | | The C.E.O. of Edgenuity, an online learning company, says she learned early in her career that students need the tools to advance at their own pace. |
| With dozens dead, U.S. tells Egypt to pull 'back from the brink' | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - The United States urged Arab ally Egypt to pull "back from the brink" after security forces killed dozens of supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and opened a dangerous new phase in the army's confrontation with his Muslim Brotherhood. |
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