What about the Justice Department's decision to cast aside decades-old traditions governing press freedom in order to monitor the communications of Associated Press reporters and editors?

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Meltwater is a 12-year-old electronic news clipping service that helps its clients monitor how they are covered in the press.

WSJ: Judge: Aggregator of AP news can't have free ride

The company is a 12-year-old electronic news clipping service that helps its clients monitor how they are covered in the press.

WSJ: Judge rules for AP in copyright dispute

"Just as the crew of the Monitor fought tirelessly to keep their 'old-time knight in armour' afloat, so have many worked tirelessly since her loss to keep their commitment to her, and to the 16 sailors who answered the call-to-arms of a young nation in peril, and paid the ultimate price, " said Kathryn Sullivan, acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) administrator.

BBC: USS Monitor sailors laid to rest at Arlington cemetery

Forbes contributor Steve Denning recently wrote two pieces, one about the most hated jobs, using data from another jobs website, CareerBliss, and a piece about the supposedly happiest jobs from a Christian Science Monitor slide show about a four-year-old General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.

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But, increasingly, the development work on robots is designed either to assist the old with physical functions such as bathing or lifting things, or to monitor health and well-being.

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They were abandoned by their parents at eight-weeks old and are being hand-fed small portions of fish twice a day and weighed to monitor their progress.

BBC: Endangered penguin chicks hand-reared at Whipsnade Zoo