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He has discovered a second huge plume of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, 75 miles northwest of the leaking BP well, a Louisiana scientist claimed on Friday.

The Washington Post has reported that James R. Cowan Jr., a Louisiana State University professor, said his crew found globs of oil by sending a remotely controlled submarine about 400 feet below the surface.

His discovery a day after other scientists said they had found another vast plume of oil that stretched for miles east of the source of the leak, Cowan has reported.

A study has found that today's college generation lacks empathy compared with their counterparts of 20 and 30 years ago.

LiveScience. com reported on Friday that using a measure of empathy in a review of 72 studies of 14,000 U. S. college students between 1979 and 2009, today's students scored 40 percent lower than their elders.

Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, said, "We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000."

According to the official reports, the U. S. House approved a measure Friday that includes a provision to allow the Defense Department to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

It has been reported that the measure passed 229-186, with 26 Democrats voting against and nine Republicans in favor of repealing the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy after the Defense Department scrutinizes it to ensure it would not weaken the military or hurt recruiting efforts.

It sent Bill Clinton to ask Rep. Joe Sestak to back out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary in exchange for an unpaid job as an adviser, the White House has revealed.

The White House said in a report on Friday in The Washington Post that the former president approached Sestak last summer when he began his challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, who had changed parties, from Republican to Democratic, and had President Obama's backing.

Analysts have said that a labor union is organizing medical marijuana workers in Oakland, Calif., a move likely to aid efforts in the state to legalize marijuana.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 in San Jose, Calif., is thought to be the first union to organize workers in a marijuana-related business.

A significant rise of dual sim phones have been noted in Indian Market.

Companies such as Intex, Micromax etc were some of the players who used to release them. The latest one to join the list is the G-Fone 571.

It is supposedly termed as the 'new kid in the block'.

As the trade analysts say this handset is based on all the latest specs that are a 'must' in present day phones.

Some of the features that go at par with this phone are mobile tracker, 8GB memory card, web cam, USB, Opera Mini OS, Indian calendar, Long Distance Control, EDGE connection and Built in Modem.