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  • This meeting will now come to order.
    Walk While You Talk: The Meeting Goes Mobile
    To stay in shape, many people stand while they work, or even use a treadmill desk. The latest advice might get you out of the building altogether. Ditch the boardroom and walk while you meet.
  • Free Breast Pumps And The Cost Of Health Care
    Health insurers are now required to pay for breast pumps. What will that mean for health care costs?
  • Mon Dieu! A 'Hashtag' Is Now A 'Mot-Dièse' In France
    The decision was made by the agency charged with finding French alternatives to foreign-language terms
  • An FDA advisory panel voted to increase controls on painkillers containing hydrocodone, such as this generic version of Vicodin.
    To Fight Addiction, FDA Advisers Endorse Limits On Vicodin
    Painkillers containing the drug hydrocodone have provided relief to many in pain. But a panel recommended the federal government place restrictions on access to the drugs to lessen the odds of addiction.
  • PHOTOS: Scenes From The March For Life
    Many of the anti-abortion activists were brought to Washington by their religious beliefs. The once-presidential candidate Rick Santorum addressed the crowd and shared his own decision to "choose life."
  • Vice President Joe Biden participates in a round-table discussion on gun violence at Virginia Commonwealth University with Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., on Friday. The panelists included people who worked on gun safety after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.
    Obama Administration Takes Gun Control Fight Outside Washington
    With gun control legislation facing obstacles in Congress, the president's political team is looking for support outside the Beltway. On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden held a round-table discussion in Richmond, Va., with people who worked on gun safety after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.
  • Two young Syrian activists, Mohsen and Sara, say they met and fell in love on Facebook while monitoring the country's uprising. They didn't want their faces shown, but provided this photo, taken in the Old City of Damascus.
    Even Syrian Activists Fall In Love On Facebook
    The activists spend a lot of time online. Mostly they follow the twists and turns of Syria's uprising. But they also fall in love this way.
  • Mohammad Afzaal, a 35-year-old house painter from northeastern Pakistan, has signed up for a voluntary repatriation program run by the International Organization of Migration and financed by the European Commission.
    EU Money Sends Migrants Stuck In Greece Home
    For years, most undocumented immigrants have been entering the European Union through Greece. They intend to settle in richer countries, but strict border controls and a broken asylum system means they end up not leaving Greece. Many are now turning to an EU-funded repatriation program that will pay their way home.
  • "Ms. October" is one of several moms who posed for a calendar to raise funds for school bus service in their Spanish town. The page reads, "No to the budget cuts!"
    Spanish Moms Raise School Funds With Pinup Calendar
    When the village of Montserrat cut its school bus service to save money, some local moms hatched a plan to create an erotic calendar. The scantily clad women have earned enough in sales to rehire the school bus for the next three months.
  • Hundreds of veterans and military spouses meet with prospective employers at the Hiring Our Heroes job fair at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., in December. Veterans say they're still having trouble finding jobs and getting other types of assistance.
    Help Slow To Come For Returning U.S. Veterans
    The unemployment rate among the nation's newest veterans is far higher than the rest of America, but even more worrying is their suicide rate. As the VA scrambles to keep up, veterans groups say there just isn't enough assistance to go around.
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