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Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Dao - Sep. 04 (Investigative Report) - .By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

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Obama administration fights to save healthcare law

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jeremy Pelofsky, Lisa Lambert - May. 11 (Special Report) - An appeals court on Tuesday sharply questioned whether the state of Virginia could challenge President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which requires Americans to buy insurance in a bid to slow healthcare costs. The Obama administration is trying to save the individual mandate after a Virginia federal judge agreed with the state it was unconstitutional and struck down that part of the law. The Obama administration has vigorously defended the measure, set to go into effect in 2014

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Appeals court blasts VA mental health care system

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Paul Elias - May. 10 (Special Report) - Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system. In the strongly worded ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it takes the department an average of four years to fully provide the mental health benefits owed veterans. The court also said it often takes weeks for a suicidal vet to get a first appointment. The "unchecked incompetence" in handling the flood of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health claims is unconstitutional, the court said.

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Phil Mickelson tries to spread news about arthritis - BostonHerald.com

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Chefs help craft healthier school lunches with local food

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Nanci Hellmich - Aug. 10 (News) - On his first day on the job as director of food and nutrition for Baltimore City Schools, chef Tony Geraci brought in 40,000 pounds of tree-ripened, Maryland-grown peaches for students.

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Herbal Supplements Often Have Contaminants, Study finds

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gardiner Harris - May. 25 (News Report) - Nearly all of the herbal dietary supplements tested in a Congressional investigation contained trace amounts of lead and other contaminants, and some supplement sellers made illegal claims that their products can cure cancer and other diseases, investigators found.

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Childhood Obesity Battle Is Taken Up by First Lady

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sheryl Gay Stolberg - Feb. 10 (News Report) - The initiative led by Michelle Obama is intended to revamp the way American youngsters eat and play.

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Michelle Obama says 'Let's Move' on obesity in American kids /

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Grier - Feb. 09 (News) - Michelle Obama introduced the "Let?s Move" campaign to fight childhood obesity. It encourages more physical activity for kids, healthier meals in schools, and prominent food labeling. ...

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Fish oil supplements 'beat psychotic mental illness'

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Taking a daily fish oil capsule can stave off mental illness in those at highest risk, trial findings suggest.

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15 cigarettes: all it takes to harm genes

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Steve Connor - Dec. 17 (Special Report) - One genetic mutation occurs on average for every 15 cigarettes that a typical lung-cancer patient smokes, according to a study that has identified for the first time all of the mutations acquired during the lifetime of a cancer patient. Scientists have completed a full genetic analysis of the genomes of cancer patients, and hope the information will lead to a fundamental understanding of the causes of cancer – and possibly drugs and treatments – by identifying the mutations that turn a healthy cell into a cancerous tumour cell.

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Study raises more doubts about cholesterol drugs Zetia, Vytorin

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Lyndsey Layton - Nov. 21 (News Report) - A widely prescribed and expensive cholesterol drug does not unclog arteries as effectively as a modified version of Vitamin B3, a cheap alternative used to treat heart disease for decades, according to a new study.

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Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering - Series

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles Duhigg - Sep. 13 (Investigative Report) - In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But the vast majority of polluters have escaped punishment.

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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Nora Schultz - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - Brain regions important for cognition are smaller in obese older people, making their brains look up to 16 years older than they are. As brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition.

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How to feel up in a downturn

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Oliver Burkeman - Aug. 15 (Special Report) - When Napoleon Hill set out to discover the secret principle underlying all human success, he brought an appropriate degree of diligence to the task. Over two decades, he interviewed the leading entrepreneurs of his era (Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell), the leading financiers (John D Rockefeller, Charles Schwab) and the leading politicians (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson – and Joseph Stalin, which tells you something about the definition of "success" we're dealing with here). Hill, who had been born into poverty in America's Appalachian mountains in 1883, wanted to know what his interviewees had in common: how had they achieved such wealth, power, fame and, apparently, fulfilment?

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China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and to poison its people.

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Common insect repellent affects nervous system: study

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Marlowe Hood - Aug. 05 (News Report) - experiments on insects, as well as on enzymes extracted from mice and human neurons, showed for the first time that it can interfere with the proper functioning of the nervous system. The researchers say further studies are "urgently needed" to assess deet's potential toxicity to humans, especially when combined with other chemical compounds. Their findings may also shed some light on the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome," the name given to a complex and variable mix of neurological symptoms reported by tens of thousands of US military veterans who served in the first Gulf War against Iraq in 1990-1991.

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Modified corn seeds sow doubts

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Globe and Mail - By Martin Mittelstaedt - Aug. 04 (News Report) - With so much crammed into one seed, the modified corn will be able to confer multiple benefits, such as resistance to corn borers and rootworms, two caterpillar-like pests that infest the valuable grain crop, as well as withstanding applications of glyphosate, a weed killer better known by its commercial name, Roundup. But a controversy has arisen over the new seeds, which were approved for use last month by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Health Canada hasn't assessed their safety.

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FDA concludes mercury in dental fillings not risky

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lauran Neergaard - Jul. 29 (News Report) - The government declared Tuesday that silver dental fillings contain too little mercury to harm the millions who've had cavities filled with them - including young children - and that only people allergic to mercury need to avoid them.

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Gargantuan helpings of fast food surge in popularity

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Kansas City Star - By Joyce Smith - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Restaurants across the land, feeding a trend begun several years ago with the introduction of Hardee’s Thickburger, are offering ever-larger burgers, sandwiches and rich dishes. In this economy, restaurateurs say, they want to give more value for the money. And stressed consumers seem to have a taste for such comfort food. For some diners, words like low fat, diet, organic or healthy are just not on the menu.

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Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Murray Wardrop - May. 22 (News Report) - Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that polycarbonate containers release the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) into liquid stored in them. BPA has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.

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Ministry of Defence admits to further radioactive leaks from submarines

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Rob Edwards - May. 18 (News Report) - Radioactive waste has leaked from Britain's nuclear submarines nine times in the past 12 years, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted. Two of the leaks – including one at Devonport near Plymouth two months ago – had not been revealed until today.

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Pesticide in pools far above safe limit

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Australian - By Matthew Denholm - May. 18 (News Report) - Australia's pesticides regulator told The Australian it would review the use of the herbicide simazine, a common ingredient in swimming pool anti-algae treatments and suburban weed killers.

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Britain's farmers still restricted by Chernobyl nuclear fallout

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Terry Macalister, Helen Carter - May. 12 (Special Report) - Nearly 370 farms in Britain are still restricted in the way they use land and rear sheep because of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident 23 years ago, the government has admitted.

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Potomac Fish Study Turns Up No Exact Cause of Abnormalities

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - More than 80 percent of the male smallmouth bass in the Potomac River are growing eggs, but after six years of searching, scientists still have not pinned down the pollutants that are causing the abnormality, according to research unveiled yesterday. Federal officials released the results of the largest-ever investigation into "intersex" fish in the Potomac watershed.

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FACT CHECK: Do smokers cost society money?

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Erica Werner - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer. It's an element of the debate over tobacco that some economists and officials find distasteful.

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