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    • March Madness

      Sure, your workplace will let you do an NCAA tournament office pool. Allow a little bit of smack talk about Notre Dame's leprechaun camouflage uniforms. Maybe some gung-ho boss will go as far as corralling saggy-bottomed minions to a game of after-hour hoops, in the misguided spirit of a team-bonding-cum-CPR-training exercise. But watch March Madness during business hours? Not unless you fill out your application for the local Dairy Queen at the same time.

      Then again, we're living in 2013, the era of auto-flush toilets and military drones. Don't tell me you can't sneak in some NCAA action without getting caught. The easiest way of course is to charge up the battery the night before, slip the phone somewhere inconspicuous, and work on stifling whoops of delight as you stream NCAA.com/march-madness-live from Yahoo! Sports. (Don't forget your cable log-in.)

      What if even this avenue is closed off to you? Some suggestions on counterintelligence hoops surveillance in:

      The Boss Button. An

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    • A microscopic view of a replica porcupine quill (Karp Lab/PA)A microscopic view of a replica porcupine quill (Karp Lab/PA)

      The hypodermic needle has been around a while—many believe the concept even dates back centuries. Of course, there have been upgrades throughout the years, and now there might be another: Researchers believe porcupine needles could serve as inspiration for a new and improved version.

      According to a scientific paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers  found that porcupine needles contain "microscopic backward-facing deployable barbs" that enable penetration and "high tissue adhesion."

      In plain English, that means the needles are really good at both breaking the skin and staying in place thanks to the barbs. The discovery could help those who require long-term IVs and be used for medical treatments that require staples to keep a wound from splitting.

      [Related: Science wants more dogs that can smell low blood sugar in diabetics]

      The scientists made the discovery by measuring "how much force it took to push in and pull out porcupine quills into pig

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    • Women who quit smoking by the age of 30 almost completely avoid the risk of an early tobacco-related death — by more than 97 percent — according to a study of more than a million women in the United Kingdom.

      Conversely, lifelong smokers on average die 10 years earlier than non-smoking women.

      The results were published Saturday in The Lancet, one of the world's oldest, and most respected general medical journals. According to the journal's Web site, the results "commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Richard Doll, one of the first people to identify the link between smoking and lung cancer."

      Women who quit smoking by the age of 30 almost completely avoid the risk of an early tobacco-related death according to a study of more than a million women in the United Kingdom. . (AP Photo/The New York Times Archive, Burk Uzzle)

      "What we've shown is that if women smoke like men, they die like men," lead researcher Sir Richard Peto told the BBC. "More than half of women who smoke and keep on smoking will get killed by tobacco.

      "Stopping works, amazingly well actually. Smoking kills, stopping works and the earlier you stop the better."

      On average, women who stopped smoking by 30 lost a month of life and if

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    • Cycling-Defending champion Hesjedal quits Giro d'Italia

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