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submitted by Grace for team Breast cancer info 136 weeks 2 days 16 hours 24 minutes ago
Cases of invasive breast cancer in the United States have declined overall, but the decrease is significantly less marked in poor women who live in rural areas, possibly due to differences in the use of hormone therapy (HT), a new study suggests.
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submitted by Julia Leigh 197 weeks 4 hours 45 minutes ago
Have you heard that New Yorkers are rude, London is rainy, and China is just a shovel away? Here, the truth behind travel rumors
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 106 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago
Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has provoked controversy. Now, a study of first- and second-graders suggests...(more)
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submitted by enikhanjohorns for team Green Living 127 weeks 2 hours 10 minutes ago
This perspective is much less comfortable to face than the one presented by Al Gore, civilization—as it has for the duration of its ten thousand years of fascism and genocide—offers only two options: Collective resistance or death. How the colonized captives of civilization respond does not...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 223 weeks 2 days 5 hours 29 minutes ago
Step away from that pumpkin! While we're more than happy to get into the swing of Halloween, we refuse to do a roundup of the trite and not-so-true haunted hotels around the world. Nonetheless, in our travels we've happened upon a number of places that are...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 3 hours 54 minutes ago
AP - Good news for budget-minded travelers: There's no proof that flying economy-class increases your chances of dangerous blood clots, according to new guidelines from medical specialists.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 4 hours 54 minutes ago
AP - Vienna's mayor on Tuesday promised compensation for anyone injected with the parasite that causes malaria after two former foster home children claimed to have been given such shots in the 1960s.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 83 weeks 2 days 3 hours 6 minutes ago
A quick video that shows a cool urban farming exhibit at the Seattle garden show.
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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 129 weeks 3 days 4 hours 5 minutes ago
Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem....
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submitted by Grace 230 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago
I was at the dog park the other day, chatting with a dog-obsessed friend who knows me really well, when another dog owner came over and mentioned that her dog had recently been diagnosed with a bladder infection.
I smiled at her and opened my mouth to...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 5 hours 54 minutes ago
Researchers combed through four years' worth of data about Harvard runners to produce the surprisingly controversial finding that how a person runs may affect whether he or she winds up hurt.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 89 weeks 1 day 20 hours 33 minutes ago
From Pennsylvania church ladies to Iowa dairymen, the locavore, small-is-good, organic food movement born in Northern California has penetrated America's heartland, where it is waging a pitchfork rebellion, much of it on the Internet, against the agricultural establishment.
After long dismissing the new food movement as a...(more)
