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Autism research today

  Get a glimpse of the latest autism research, and what it may mean for the future understanding of the disorder.

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Watch the TV--or you might get hurt

  May 12: Researchers say the number of children who've been hurt by falling furniture has jumped 41-percent since 1990, with nearly half of those injuries involving TVs. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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Mom in labor as twister destroys hospital

When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child. “We were all just sitting there holding each other’s hands and praying,” Taylor, 25, told NBC News. Full story

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