PARIS ? France was again forced Thursday to revise down its growth projections for next year, with its GDP expected to increase by just 1 percent. Worsening global economic conditions have already forced France to cut its forecasts this summer. But President Nicolas Sarkozy promised during a television interview devoted to the European debt crisis [...]

FILE – In this March 27, 2012 file photo, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton leaves the NFL owners meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. A person familiar with the decision says that Saints coach Sean Payton will file an appeal of his season-long suspension with the NFL on Friday, March 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Luis M. [...]

Hearing aids aren’t the most discreet cybernetic creations, because the need for a clog-free microphone means that they generally need an external component. Engineers at the Universities of Utah and Ohio aim to change everything with a much smaller mic that uses an accelerometer to detect sound vibrations — so it requires no opening and [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? Just because Joe Paterno is gone doesn’t mean the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State is over. The Nittany Lions started life without the 84-year-old Paterno on Thursday, introducing interim coach Tom Bradley while the board of trustees was just beginning its formal investigation. “We’re obviously in a very unprecedented [...]

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