Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago — a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park's famed granite monolith.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
An unusual list of foods that probably aren't in your shopping cart.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
John Gray in "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" suggested men respond to stressful situations by withdrawing or "retreating into their cave." What if you really could retreat to a cave which offered escape without compromising on comfort? From a thousand year old cave carved out of volcanic ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Scientists prove that beta-caryophyllene, a chemical found in marijuana, soothes the immune system, increases bone mass, and blocks pain signals -- without causing euphoria or interfering with the central nervous system.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
More than 400,000 people in England have given up smoking thanks to the ban on lighting up in public introduced a year ago tomorrow, a study claims.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The people who support you are speaking loudly and clearly. I believe you will hear them and will uphold your promise to oppose any FISA bill which includes immunity for for the telecommunications companies which unlawfully went along with President George W. Bush's program of warrantless wiretapping of ordinary American ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) to start looking ahead to ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
When amputee athletes compete against able-bodied athletes, they're called courageous. But when they nearly win, as a South African sprinter did earlier this year while trying to qualify for that country's Olympic team, they are accused of cheating. It's a hypocrisy that doesn't sit well with MIT professor and double ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Six people were killed and another was critically injured when two choppers collided near Flagstaff Medical Center.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
A New Zealand man has created a robotic rock band that has broken free of the bedroom to become internet sensations.
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