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Hewlett-Packard to break itself into two companies

Hewlett-Packard to break itself into two companies

Hewlett-Packard Co on Monday said it plans to separate its personal-computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations, the latest attempt by the technology company to improve its fortunes by breaking itself in two.

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Researchers unravel the genetics of human height

Researchers unravel the genetics of human height

Height differences could be caused by subtle changes in our DNA, according to the largest ever study on height. The study, published in the journal Nature Genetics on Sunday, analyzed data from the genomes of 253,288 people as the scientists looked into about two million common genetic variants. From this pool, they identified 697 (in 424 gene regions) genes as …

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Mass grave found near Mexico town, police suspected

Mass grave found near Mexico town, police suspected

Human remains were pulled from at least four mass graves Sunday in the same area where 43 students went missing after a police shooting in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico. If the burned bodies that have been found in the mass graves since Saturday are confirmed to be the normalista teaching students missing since the September 26 shooting incidents, …

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