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Agent In Underwear Bomb Plot Produced Intelligence Coups

He turned over what authorities say is an intact device. And, he reportedly supplied key information that led to a drone strike that killed one of the key figures in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

April 5, 1989: Tugboats tow the Exxon Valdez off Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

Indian Court Blocks Exxon Valdez From Entering Scrap Yard

India's Supreme Court says the ship's owners must prove it has been decontaminated before it heads to a yard where it will be dismantled.

Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was once the lead cleric associated with the proposed Islamic community center some critics called the "ground zero mosque." In his new book, Moving the Mountain, Rauf calls for moderate Muslims to step up and marginalize the voices of extremists.

John Adams' <em>Nixon in China</em>, produced at the Metropolitan Opera in January 2011. Left to right: Janis Kelly as Pat Nixon, Teresa S. Herold as the Second Secretary to Mao, James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, Ginger Costa Jackson as the First Secretary to Mao, Russell Braun as Chou En-lai.

Talk Like An Opera Geek: Pioneering An American Sound

From rugged individualism to visionary technologies, American opera forges a distinct repertoire.

Easy does it on the X-ray doses for kids.

FDA Leans On Device Makers To Cut X-Ray Doses For Kids

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing that manufacturers of X-ray machines and CT scanners do more to protect children from radiation exposure. If companies don't take steps to limit X-ray doses, the agency may require a label on their new equipment recommending it not be used on children.

Cybersecurity Firms Ditch Defense, Learn To 'Hunt'

It's boom time for cybersecurity companies that specialize in going after Chinese hackers. The top competitors in the sector have been taking a nontraditional approach. Instead of focusing on protecting clients from malware, these firms are learning more about the attackers — and going after them.

Nurse Susan Peel gives a whooping cough vaccination to a high school student in Sacramento, Calif. The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness by the time people reach their teens and early adulthood.

Feds Join Fight Against Whooping Cough In Washington

About 1 in 5 infants who get whooping cough will get pneumonia, and in some cases die. In Washington state, confirmed cases are 10 times as high as they were last year.

<strong></strong><em></em>In the influential <em>Dark Shadows</em>, a 1960s ABC soap opera with a gothic and supernatural bent, Jonathan Frid played Barnabas Collins, a vampire who returned to claim his coastal Maine manor.

'Dark Shadows': The Birth Of The Modern TV Vampire

When it comes to monsters on television, vampires have the market cornered. And so popular are TV vampires that opening this weekend is a movie based on the grand-sire of all vampire TV shows: Dark Shadows. Elizabeth Blair takes a look at the evolution of a TV character that will never die.

A U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test flight over the Chesapeake Bay in 2011.

Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Defense Cuts

After receiving a briefing on the federal budget, Republicans and Democrats took bold decisions when it came to defense spending. And they proposed cuts that go far beyond what both parties in Congress have proposed.

Selling back college textbooks can be frustrating

As college courses wrap up for the year, college students are trying to get the best prices for their used textbooks. Some textbooks will be updated, and…

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