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Practice could eventually be used to assist Alzheimer's patients retain information

NEW YORK (AP) -- People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories.


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Zuckerberg's base salary is a relatively low $500,000 but stock options could add millions

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.


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District settled with Mark Berndt for $40,000 after removing him last winter

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday.


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Most salient thing about the new offerings from Netflix and Hulu is just how \"TV" they are

NEW YORK (AP) -- Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.


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State, which already had its own assessment system in place, a good example of reform challenges

MIAMI (AP) -- By almost any measure, Norma Butler Bossard Elementary is a top performing school in Miami: It has consistently been rated an `A' by the state, and students have achieved high scores on Florida's standardized math and reading exams.


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Abrupt shift is an attempt to end what was becoming election-year nightmare

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rushing to end a political uproar, President Barack Obama on Friday will announce that religious employers will not have to cover birth control for their employees after all, The Associated Press has learned. The administration instead will demand that insurance companies will be the ones directly responsible for providing free contraception.


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Video posted online last month shows 19-year-old being kicked, punched while on ground unarmed

NEW YORK (AP) -- A man shown on video being kicked and punched by four New York City police officers says he's suffered from constant headaches and nightmares since then.


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Oglala Sioux in South Dakota have struggled for generations with alcoholism on reservation

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.


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$14 billion facility would be the first to get approval since 1978

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation is expected to win approval Thursday as federal regulators consider whether to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.


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Obama contraception policy, Komen flap bring issues to forefront in election year

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Political turmoil over abortion and birth control spread suddenly on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen breast-cancer charity after its backtracking treaty with Planned Parenthood, and Republican presidential candidates blistered the Obama administration for a recent ruling on Catholic hospitals and contraception.


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