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WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. healthcare system is not ready for the baby boom generation moving into retirement, geriatric care specialists say.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The government is getting out of the way of next-generation mobile broadband services -- a new niche being developed by cell-phone companies -- by preparing to

PARIS, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A communications satellite designed to provide wireless broadband to airliners has been carried into space by France's Alcatel Alenia Space.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Intel said it will launch a new company logo and slogan in the new year.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The global personal-computer market surged in the third quarter, but the boom is unlikely to be sustained, a research group said Friday.

LONDON, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Britain is the most wired European nation, a research study released Friday found.

BEIJING, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- AsiaInfo said Friday it will buy out the telecommunications unit of Changjiang Technology Development.

NEW DELHI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- India telecom major BSNL has extended its deadline for signing up for a free two-month trial of its broadband service until the end of January.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new study says dance seems to show evidence of sexual selection and to reveal important information about the dancer.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A new study says hyperbaric oxygen treatments aid in the recovery of injured and diseased tissue by increasing stem cell mobility.

SEOUL, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Investigators say scientist Hwang Woo Suk has no evidence to back claims that he cloned human embryos and extracted matching stem cells.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Praised as the Thomas Edison of the 21st century, Ray Kurzweil was selected as one of "16 revolutionaries who made America," along with the great inventors of t

DENVER, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Researchers say they have discovered how a gene linked to Parkinson's disease can keep brain cells alive.

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SEATTLE, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The American pika, a small cousin of the rabbit, may be on the verge of extinction in the Great Basin, the high desert centered in Nevada.