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Descendants of a British mutiny who have lived for generations in the Pacific have among the lowest rates of myopia in the world, according to an Australian study.

Kingston Technology Co. is helping pack more entertainment into Apple gadgets and Kindle Fire tablets.

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Jeremy Lamb had 15 points for the defending national champion Huskies (5-1), who lost for the first time since March 5, against Notre Dame. Alex Oriakhi added 14 points and 10 rebounds.

Kingston actor Chris Cooper has a costar for ``The Corrections,'' the HBO show that will be based on Jonathan Franzen's novel by the same name. Cooper's son will be played by Ewan McGregor, according to Entertainment Weekly. Cooper was just in Los Angeles for the premiere of ``The Muppets,'' which opens today.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged women who scarf down their meals tend to be heavier than those who savor each bite, a new report from New Zealand shows.

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A quadriplegic skydiver plunged 18,000 feet to his death because he was unable to manually deploy his parachute, and his emergency chute was not set to automatically release, authorities said on Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Australian adventurer and documentary maker Sorrel Wilby blames her passion for the unusual, which has taken her through much of Asia on a bicycle, across Tibet, and through the Himalayas, on magazines she read when she was young.

Jamaican police find 3 bodies at construction site where rival gangs believed to have fought. Jamaican police say they have discovered three bodies buried in shallow graves at a construction site outside the capital and expect to find more.

Man indicted on murder, assault charges in NY rehab center stabbing that left 1 dead, 1 hurt. A man accused of fatally stabbing a security guard and wounding another employee at an addiction rehabilitation center in upstate New York faces second-degree murder and felony assault charges.

Australia's isolated Norfolk Island, once a tough British prison colony, is an ideal test-bed for the novel project as the world grasps for solutions to the twin problems of global warming and obesity, they said.

AP-GfK Poll: Republicans lead on most measures of restive nation's attitudes as election nears. All signs point to huge Republican victories in two weeks, with the GOP now leading Democrats on virtually every measure in an Associated Press-GfK poll of people likely to vote in the first major elections of Barack Obama's presidency.

Ex-employees at Tenn. big cat refuge drink beer and strip on front porch in 'protest'. Two former employees of a big cat refuge near Kingston said they drank beer and got naked on a front porch. But Jake Loftis and Samuel Adams said they were just listening to Bob Dylan music and not running nude through Tiger Haven, exposing themselves to co-workers, as their arrest warrants claim.

Pa. official resigning in wake of uproar over terror-report tracking of peaceful groups. The director of the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has quit, telling the governor that he made the decision after reflecting on the uproar over anti-terrorism bulletins that tracked the actions of peaceful citizens' groups.

The clock ticked down on the Delhi Commonwealth Games Tuesday with signs that conditions in the much-criticised athletes' village were finally improving as hundreds of competitors arrived.

The clock ticked down on the Delhi Commonwealth Games Tuesday with signs that conditions in the much-criticised athletes' village were finally improving as hundreds of competitors arrived.

Pa. State Police says homeland security alerts caused problems, waste of resources. Leaders of the Pennsylvania State Police told a legislative committee Monday that unsubstantiated or needlessly inflammatory listings in state-contracted homeland security intelligence bulletins caused a series of problems for their operations.

TVA asks for dismissal of coal ash spill lawsuits, saying plaintiffs not damaged by spill. Tennessee Valley Authority attorneys are asking a federal judge to dismiss 58 lawsuits over the toxic muck that spilled from a holding pond at one of the public utility's plants in 2008.

Patients critically injured when van crashed into Tenn. salon upgraded to serious condition. Two people who were critically injured when a van crashed into a beauty salon in eastern Tennessee have been upgraded to serious condition.

The latest industry news: personnel announcements, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships. Trusteer, provider of secure browsing services, has appointed Yaron Dycian vice president of products. Dycian formerly served as head of products for identity protection and anti-fraud services at RSA. In his new role, he will be tasked with leading the development and implementation of product strategy. www.trusteer.com Proofpoint, provider of email security and archiving solutions, has named Jeff Lake (left) VP of federal operations. Lake, who previously held a similar position at Fortinet, will be tasked with growing Proofpoint's government user base. In conjunction with the hire, the company has opened a new office in Herndon, Va. www.proofpoint.com Solera Networks, provider of network forensics products, has partnered with Sourcefire to integrate its offering with the intrusion prevention maker's event analysis capabilities. The integration allows Sourcefire's packet analysis capability to i