AirTalk for November 15, 2011

Occupy Wall Street protesters gather tog

Will the fringes of the occupy movement help or hurt the cause?

Across the country, police have swept into Occupy Wall Street encampments to remove demonstrators amid increasing complaints about safety, sanitation and drug use.
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Stem cells help the heart heal itself

Driving to work, playing with grandchildren, even walking up a flight of stairs – all of these everyday activities might be a thing of the past for someone who has suffered a major heart attack. Most victims suffer massive and irreparable loss of tissue and permanent damage, leaving them with a severely reduced quality of life.

'Nuclear winter of the NBA?'

Yesterday, players rejected the latest offer from the league and started taking steps for legal action against the National Basketball Association.
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The new Newt?

Newt Gingrich is experiencing a mini-surge in the polls. A new national CBS survey of Republican primary voters shows Gingrich tied with Mitt Romney at 15 percent, behind front runner Herman Cain at 18 percent.
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The biological clock crosses the gender divide: How old is too old for fatherhood?

For decades, the age at which people decide to get into parenting has been increasing, but women have borne the brunt of the focus. We see study after study on the countless ways a woman's age affects everything from her egg count to her child's cognitive ability. But what about men?