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Mike Levine said he felt fine in June 2015, when he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The lifelong athlete and retired aerospace industry salesman from Carlsbad, California, told CBS News, “I had a couple of unusual symptoms I hadn’t previously noticed, so I went to see my doctor.” His urine was a little darker than normal and his stool was slightly discolored — chalky-colored and oily. A routine urine test came back normal but a blood test for liver function was elevated. His doctor still wasn’t worried. “He said it could be a number of things,” said Levine  possibly gallstones or hepatitis. But then an MRI revealed a mass and a scope test and biopsy confirmed pancreatic cancer. It threw Levine and his wife for a loop. “I am an athlete. I’ve done the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii twice. I was a 1994 All-American triathlete. I’ve done over 100 triathlons. I was in good health other than those two annoying things when I went to the bathroom, and then all the scans came back positive for cancer,” he said. Now, two years later, Levine is one of a small percentage of people who’s survived pancreatic cancer. Only about 8 percent of patients live five years after diagnosis — the lowest five-year survival rate of any major cancer. Pancreatic cancer has a low profile compared to other cancers, but...

Moscow Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg was in Moscow on Monday, where top officials were pressing him to expand the company’s operations in Russia. Russia’s communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged the social media giant’s founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead open a research center in Moscow. A Facebook spokeswoman, who refused to be named because she wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter with the media, said the company has no immediate expansion plans for Russia. Zuckerberg, who ditched his trademark hoodie and jeans for a suit and tie for his meeting with Medvedev, was visiting Russia on a world tour of programming contests to identify new talent. The two men looked pleased with the meeting, posing for photographers. Zuckerberg posted one of the photos on his Facebook page with the caption: “Good conversation with Prime Minister Medvedev.” Russian Web companies often command larger shares of the domestic market than their U.S. counterparts. Facebook has roughly 9 million users in Russia, 온라인카지노 while domestic clone VK has around 34 million. Medvedev has cultivated a tech-friendly image since launching his modernization program while president of Russia from 2008 until this May, when Vladimir Putin returned for his third term as...

(CBS/AP) TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has test-fired four missiles designed to hit warships during a drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian military commander said. The missiles were fired simultaneously and hit a “big target” the size of a warship, sinking it within 50 seconds, Gen. Ali Fadavi of the powerful Revolutionary Guard was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency. The Fars report late Monday was the first indication of an Iranian military exercise taking place simultaneously and close to U.S.-led joint naval maneuvers in the Persian Gulf, 하남출장업소 including mine-sweeping drills, which got under way last week. Watch: Iran’s president dismisses Israeli threats over its nuclear facilitiesMahmoud Ahmadinejad drops clue about ex-FBI agent who vanished 5 years ago in IranWatch: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies Iran developing a nuclear weapon The U.S. Navy claims the maneuvers are not directly aimed at Iran, but the West and its regional allies have made clear they would react against attempts by Tehran to carry out threats to try to close critical Gulf oil shipping lanes in retaliation for tighter sanctions over its disputed nuclear program. Fadavi did not elaborate on the ongoing Iranian exercise or the type of missiles fired but said the Guard is planning a “massive naval maneuver in the near future” in the strait. Iran regularly holds maneuvers to upgrade its military readiness...

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt was unable to put the cat out of first place at the weekend box office. Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” reissue was No. 1 for the second-straight weekend with $22.1 million, 강랜 according to studio estimates Sunday. That puts it just ahead of Pitt’s baseball drama “Moneyball,” a Sony Pictures release that opened at No. 2 with $20.6 million. Debuting closely behind at No. 3 was the Warner Bros. family film “Dolphin Tale” with $20.3 million. “Dolphin Tale” stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. The 3-D reissue of 1994’s “The Lion King” has taken in $61.7 million since opening the previous weekend to a much bigger audience than expected. That’s on top of nearly $800 million worldwide the movie made in its original run and a 2002 re-release. Photos: Dolphin’s prosthetic tale comes to big screenImages: Angelia, Brad play “Moneyball”Photos: Fall films 2011 The film has done so well that Disney plans to leave it in theaters longer than the two-week run the studio initially planned as a prelude to its Blu-ray home-video debut Oct. 4, said Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution. The studio has not yet decided how long or how widely the film would play theatrically after the Blu-ray release, Hollis said. “Consumers I think will be happy to consume it in multiple ways for this kind of...