WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five big U.S. banks accused of abusive mortgage practices have agreed to a $25 billion government settlement that may help roughly one million borrowers but is no magic bullet for the ailing housing market. The record state-federal settlement will spread relief widely in the form of mortgage relief and $2,000 payments to borrowers who lost their homes to foreclosure. ...

What a big chunk of the Illinois fan base often fails to acknowledge is that Illinois basketball isn’t quite the elite program that many like to imagine it to be.

PORTLAND — Red Giant’s newest version of the Magic Bullet Suite, V.11.2.2, is now available.

Hailed as wonder drugs when they were discovered in the 1940s, the overuse of antibiotics is leading us towards a future without cures for bacterial infections.

ASPEN — The Aspen School District budget outlook for the 2012-13 school year is not as grim as anticipated, but staff cuts and increased class sizes remain a distinct possibility.

There is no perfect solution to the problem of crosstalk in modern communications ICs, an increasing concern as chip designers push devices into the realm of 28-gigabits per second and beyond, according to a panel of experts at DesignCon 2012. View the full article HERE .

ASPEN — The Aspen School District budget outlook for the 2012-13 school year is not as grim as anticipated, but staff cuts and increased class sizes remain a distinct possibility.

A QUEENS JUDGE has rebuffed a cop-killer’s attempt to appeal his life sentence by citing the “magic bullet” explanation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Abdul Majid, 62, tried to get years knocked off his sentence by claiming one of the bullets that injured Officer John Scarangella’s partner Richard Rainey during the April 1981 shooting struck Scarangella in the head.

One hundred years and some months ago — on March 16, 1911 — a publication called the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal printed a description of the treatment of 20 men at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC. The men were members of the US Army. Because medical privacy rules were a lot looser 100 years ago, we know most of their names, because the journal gave them: Cornwell, 22 ...

Medical device design usually involves the use of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing, or CAD/CAM environments. The process is long and iterative. Now, two professors at the University of Minnesota have come up with a 3-D visualization device that aims to revolutionize how medical devices are designed and tested, thereby shortening R&D cycles and the costs [...]