Dell to buy Perot

Dell Inc. on Monday said it had agreed to buy information technology services company Perot Systems Corporation for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the personal computer business. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said it would offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based in Plano, Texas. That represents a 68 percent premium over Perot's closing share price on Friday. Dell said Perot, founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, will expand the company's IT services offerings for business and the widen the pool of potential customers for its computers.
It expects the deal to close in the November-January quarter and start boosting its earnings beginning in fiscal 2012. Analysts have been expecting acquisitions from Dell, which hired IBM Corporation's former mergers and acquisitions chief earlier this year and has raised almost $1 billion by selling debt securities since March.

AIDS vaccine cuts infections

An experimental AIDS vaccine has for the first time cuts the risk of infection in humans in what scientists on Thursday called a "breakthrough" in the quarter-century fight against the epidemic.
The vaccine reduced the chance of being infected by a third, researchers announced after the world's largest trial of 16,000 volunteers, carried out by the U.S. Army and Thailand's Ministry of Public Health. The surprising result comes after years of fruitless attempts by the medical world to find an HIV vaccine, including one trial jab that apparently boosted infection rates.
The vaccine was a combination of two older drugs that had not reduced infection on their own, and the researchers said they were now studying why the two apparently worked together. Researchers said the latest vaccine showed a 31.2 percent efficacy in reducing the risk of HIV infection.

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Active kids sleep better

The study of 500 children also found that children who fall asleep faster tend to stay asleep for longer. The study, by experts from Monash University in Melbourne and the University of Auckland, has been published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. To reach the conclusion, researchers looked at 519 seven-year-olds, reports The BBC. The majority fell asleep within 45 minutes, and the average "sleep latency" - the time it took - was 26 minutes, the study found. Physically active kids tended to take less time to fall asleep, but the more prominent association was between being sedentary and taking longer to drift off. "As short sleep duration is associated with obesity and lower cognitive performance, community emphasis on the importance of promoting healthy sleep in children is vitally important," the researchers wrote. "This study emphasises the importance of physical activity for children, not only for fitness, cardiovascular health and weight control, but also for sleep," they added.

Why little kids paint trees blue, grass red

It is so because kids can''t "bind" together the colour and shape of an object, Vanessa Simmering claims. Since the brain stores colour and shape in different groups of neurons, Simmering suspects that young children have not yet developed the ability to link the information stored in each, reports New Scientist. In order to verify her hypothesis, the expert asked 28 four-year-olds and 28 five-year-olds to view images of up to three shapes on a computer screen for a short time. Soon after, the children were shown a new image, and asked whether it was the same as the previous image or had subtly changed. The study found that although the four-year-olds could find out when a new colour had been introduced, they did not seem to notice if two of the shapes had just swapped their original colours, performing no better than chance on those trials. The five-year-olds had no such problem, suggesting that the ability to combine the different types of visual information develops after the child''s fifth year, the study claimed. The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Amsterdam at the end of July.

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A diet to get rid of belly fat

The book is written by Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass, the editors of health magazine Prevention , reports CBS News.

Here are some tips that can help you get rid of belly fat:

1. Eat four 400-calorie meals per day.

2. Never go more than four hours without eating.

3. Incorporate mono-unsaturated fats or "MUFAS" into meals.

4. When the body is under stress, it produces a hormone called "cortisol," which turns into belly fat. Learning to control the stress in life can go a long way towards reducing the belly fat.

5. Keep a strong social support group. Get your friends to join you, or find an online support group.

6. Keep a record of what you've eaten and how much.