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Hilary Duff Goes Thanksgiving Shopping

Hilary Duff and her mom Susan get ready for Thanksgiving by picking up some groceries at Bristol Farms in Beverly Hills on Tuesday (November 24).

The 22-year-old actress recently finished up filming for her role on Gossip Girl. Jessica Szhor recently talked about her character’s decisi...

Study: Lap band surgery effective for morbidly obese children

Washington, DC -- A surgeon now at Children's National Medical Center and his colleagues from New York University have found laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (Lap band) to improve the health

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Cody Brown: ‘A public can talk to itself’

Cody Brown, an undergraduate student at New York University, on the board of college publishing organisation CoPress and founder of the NYU Local blog, reveals his new project, Kommons.com, with a long essay on the public’s relationship with news. A very brief extract:

“When I say ‘a publi...

SkinMedica enters into a global license agreement with New York University

SkinMedica, Inc. and New York University announced today that they have entered into a global license agreement to develop novel products to address skin hyperpigmentation based on technology invented at NYU. ...

Musicians call for release of torture soundtrack details

We've posted many times about the use of music in Psy Ops for torture and as a form of "acoustic bombardment" (annoyance) in siege situations like Waco and when Noriega holed up in Panama. Now, famous artists like Pearl Jam, REM, Rosanne Cash, and the Roots filed a Freedom of Information Act dema...