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Eradicating a bad bacteria

The town motto of Aklavik, an Arctic hamlet huddled at the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories, is "Never Say Die." So when the close-knit community of 600 noticed an alarming trend — a high number of people were getting sick with stomach cancer — they decided to act. "In the past, we hardly ever buried anyone except elders. The graveyard wasn't touched for so long," says child-care worker Annie Buckle, 54. Now, "there's a new gravesite. You'd be surprised by the dates [on the headstones]." Buckle says she lost her mother to stomach cancer last year.

21 ways to stomach a sour market

Feel like you're getting nothing but lemons from the stock market? Allow us to introduce nearly two dozen recipes for lemonade.

'Milestone' Microsoft service pack staples .NET's stomach

Customer Perspectives on the Impact of Storage Vendor Decisions on Power, Cooling, & Space in Enterprise Data Centers

Greedy snake finds toad too tough to swallow

There's a saying about having eyes too big for your stomach. And for this grass snake, it certainly did bite off more than it could chew.

Major League Eating: The Game

If competitive eating has always been your dream, but you lack the stomach for it, you're in luck; Major League Eating pits you against formidable opponents as you simulated eating motions with the Wii remote.

How It Feels To Blow Someone Up In 'Brothers In Arms'

"During the trailer, I looked away from the television very briefly. Watching someone's stomach come apart in slow motion wasn't something I was expecting. But it didn't happen that way in the game. My grenade was lobbed from a distance, exploded and split a Nazi soldier in two. It was a "holy s-" moment. I describe it that way because those are the exact words that came out of my mouth after it happened."

The Road to CFUnited

As my train pulled away from New York's Penn station, the butterflies in my stomach began to settle down; I had gotten on the correct train with the correct ticket headed for the correct city. My destination: CFUnited, the world's premier ColdFusion conference. This year, not only did I attend the conference for the first time, I was charged with the task of reviewing my experience. And, what better place is there to start, as they say, then at the beginning.

Dog swallows two-foot stick

Hector, a Great Dane puppy, got the 62cm conifer branch lodged between his neck and his stomach while playing in the garden of his home in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire.

The Helms and Horwith Cage Match Pre-fight Interviews

When I heard about the Helms and Horwith debate, I gotta tell you there was a stir in my stomach and the hair on the back of my neck stood straight up.

Is Google the new Berkshire Hathaway?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared on the Jim Cramer CNBC show "Mad Money" today, mugging along with the usual Cramerian theatrics and clutching his stomach comically when Cramer told an anecdote about how his fifth-grader daughter wasn't allowed to use Google. But Schmidt also said something that perked our ears right up: He said Google's stock would never split-because Berkshire Hathaway's stock hasn't split and that has worked out very well for Warren Buffett's investment vehicle.

'Friendly' bacteria protect against type 1 diabetes, Yale researchers find

In a dramatic illustration of the potential for microbes to prevent disease, researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago showed that mice exposed to common stomach bacteria were protected against the development of Type I diabetes.

Prisoner sues for pain, stress over moldy cookies

SEATTLE -- A man who says he bought moldy cookies in the King County Jail is suing the county for pain, suffering and emotional distress. Moses Wiggins, 41, said he didn't notice the mold until he had eaten half a bag of cookies. He spent several days vomiting while suffering diarrhea and stomach cramps.

Photos: Killer robots at Ceatec

Murata Girl, aka Seiko-chan, with her twin sister at Ceatec 2008. She's just one of several robots being demonstrated here at the Japanese electronics show outside of Tokyo. Murata Girl can ride forward and backward at 2 inches per second--or idle in place. Tiny sensors tell the bot when it's about to bump into something, and gyroscopes on her back, plus a spinning disc embedded in her stomach, help her stay balanced. She can be controlled via a Bluetooth wand (not pictured).

24 Hours With LittleBigPlanet

We recently mentioned an event at the Parsons New School for Design and Technology in which students were divided into teams, given copies of LittleBigPlanet, and had 24 hours to develop levels for the game. GameSetWatch has the story of how the design contest went, what the winners and other notable finishers designed, and how the judges were surprised that "what they played could be completed in 24 hours." Further coverage is available at GameSpot, including a videos of several different levels. "Team Good Sportsmanship's level consisted of a single massive moving monster. SackBoy had to find his way up the monster, go through its digestive track while dodging stomach acid and eventually get on top of its head. The level featured an anatomical tour of the beast, complete with rib cage, beating heart even a dangling uvula.

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