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The census currently underway in India isn’t the world’s largest — that distinction goes to China — but it is likely to be the most comprehensive population count ever undertaken. The Indian government has hired 2.5 million census workers and given them the mammoth task of visiting every settlement in …

WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department announced plans Tuesday to unload over the next several weeks warrants it received in insurers Hartford Financial (NYSE:HIG) and Lincoln National (NYSE:LNC) as part of the controversial TARP bailout. If completed, the sales would complete the government’s exit of its holdings in these financial institutions, …

Would you consider swallowing a sponge on a string to help detect cancer in your stomach? Or propping open blood vessels in your brain — with corn, so the prop can dissolve within two years? These cutting edge science ideas are real — and may someday save your life. 1. …