Young gamer spots decade old error in test
An 8-year-old girl named Laura Gilchrist uncovered a formatting error on a national achievement test issued in 1985. The puzzle asked students to arrange five groups of jumbled words into sentences in alphabetical order, and one group produced a misordered phrase that Laura spotted.
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Barnstead
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Laura Gilchrist
Laura
Darlene Clay
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Lung cancer risk rises for women living with smokers
A large study finds nonsmoking women who grow up in households with smokers face up to 30 percent higher lung cancer risk. Researchers use pack years to measure exposure, noting the highest risk over 80 pack years, with childhood as a strong factor and industry officials disputing the findings.
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Journal of the American Medical Association
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Louisiana State University Medical Center
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Tobacco Institute
PNC to Buy Ford Mortgage Servicing Portfolio
PNC Bank plans to acquire a 10 billion residential mortgage servicing portfolio from Ford Motor Co for about 117 million. The deal, via Associates Corp of North America, would boost PNC's servicing portfolio to about 46 billion, placing it as the tenth-largest in the industry. Completion is targeted by June end with 110,000+ customers kept by The Associates until fall.
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Irvine
Calif
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