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| The Update: Bhutto returns home |
| Oct. 18 - Top news on reuters.com |
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| China's future leaders |
| Oct. 16 - Potential future leaders of China share their agenda on the second day of the Communist Party Congress, a key forum for policy announcements. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:38:27 GMT) |
| Bhutto welcomed in Pakistan |
| Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto lands in Karachi to thousands of cheering supporters. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:33:13 GMT) |
| Commuter chaos in France |
| Oct. 18 - French commuters face travel chaos as transport workers strike over plans to end early retirement privileges. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:20:34 GMT) |
| Bush urges China to meet Dalai Lama |
| Oct. 17 - With President Bush on hand, Congress gave the Dalai Lama one of the highest U.S. honors. Bush called on China to open talks with the exiled spiritual leader . |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:29:53 GMT) |
| Bush asks Turkey to show restraint |
| Oct. 17 - US President Bush expressed sympathy to Turkish concerns while calling on the nation to show restraint in Iraq. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:49:26 GMT) |
| Bhutto affirms Pakistan return |
| Oct. 17 - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announces her return to Pakistan after eight-years of self-exile. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:28:42 GMT) |
| "Superbug" spreading |
| Oct. 17 - A "superbug" resistant to antibiotics has moved out of hospitals and is creating a major health emergency. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:54:50 GMT) |
| Politics is all relative |
| Oct 18 - They may occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum but Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are apparently related. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:54:49 GMT) |
| Christian school Pres denies charges |
| Oct. 17 - Oral Roberts University President denies charges by former professors. |
| Read More...(Source: Reuters TV: Top News - Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:29:24 GMT) |
| AIDS Among Latinos on Rise |
| SAN YSIDRO, Calif. -- AIDS rates in the nation's Latino community are increasing and, with little notice, have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis. |
| Read More...(Source: - Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Violence Is Common Among The Young |
| Almost half of undergraduates say they have experienced emotional, physical or sexual violence stemming from personal relationships before or during college, according to a new study. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Which Diet's Best? That's Your Choice. |
| Is there one diet that's best for losing weight? That's the debate that simmers in weight-loss circles and occasionally boils into a full diet fad. Just recall how the low-carbohydrate craze swept the nation a few years ago. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Salmonella-Tainted Jalapeño Found in Texas |
| Federal officials investigating a three-month-old salmonella outbreak have isolated the bacteria in a jalapeño pepper from a small distribution facility in McAllen, Tex., and yesterday warned consumers nationwide to avoid eating raw jalapeños or products that contain them until more is known. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Which Is Right? |
| I can't tell right from left. It hasn't been a serious problem. Except that night on a freeway heading into San Francisco when, befuddled by an "Exit Left" sign, I hit the brakes and got totaled by a really fast sports car. Or the day I directed a footsore family of tourists 180 degrees away from... |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Diets Aren't One Way Fits All |
| Low-fat, low-carb or Mediterranean? Learn in today's Lean Plate Club column how the most popular diets stack up in a new Harvard study and why women and men may find success with different weight loss approaches. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:42:58 EDT) |
| Older Woman, Younger Man: It's a Match Made in Cyberspace |
| What do older women want? Younger men. Online dating services say women of a certain age want the white-haired gent, as long as he's not too old. Women age 50 and older almost always tell eHarmony.com that they want a younger man -- 10, 15 years younger, sometimes more. And on Match.com, a... |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Privacy Isn't the Only Benefit That a Personal Trainer Can Deliver |
| Q I have a friend who is overweight and seriously lacking in dedication and confidence. I know I can't force him to work out, but I thought if I made him a gift of a session or two with a trainer, that might be good for him. I know you get this question for women a lot, but are there any gyms or ... |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Speaking Up About a Silent Killer |
| Three times a week, in a plain red-brick building near the Pentagon City mall in Arlington, a machine keeps me alive. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| When It's Surgery, Don't Get It Wrong |
| "Mrs. Grant, this is Sarah. I'm calling to schedule the procedure on your son's right ear." |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Embracing Chaos |
| Our youngest, 9-year-old Oskar, was the one who first figured out that the name of the whale was Chaos. |
| Read More...(Source: - Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Seeking a Cure, Patients Find a Dose of Conversation Online |
| When you walk do you walk with a jerky motion? My whole body jerks at times. When I wake up and I open my eyes I feel this jerkyness in my body. Now at times it is worse than other times... |
| Read More...(Source: - Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Africa's Last and Least |
| OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso After she woke in the dark to sweep city streets, after she walked an hour to buy less than $2 worth of food, after she cooked for two hours in the searing noon heat, Fanta Lingani served her family's only meal of the day. First she set out a bowl of corn mush, seasoned ... |
| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read |
| CHICAGO -- In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being." |
| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Fish Virus Feeds Fears It Will Spread to Mississippi River |
| CHICAGO -- A deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan and an inland Ohio reservoir, spurring fears of major fish kills and the virus's possible migration to the Mississippi River. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Funding Plan to Help Lure Buyer for Hospital Network |
| Prince George's County and the state of Maryland agreed in principle to each spend $75 million to lure a health-care company interested in taking over the county's troubled hospital network. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Disease Prevention Called a Better Bet |
| An ounce of prevention in community health programs could save states hundreds of millions in health-care costs, a new study has found. |
| Read More...(Source: - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Clinton Foundation Signs Pricing Deals on Malaria Drugs |
| NEW YORK, July 17 -- Former president Bill Clinton's foundation has signed pricing agreements with several suppliers involved in making a malaria-fighting drug in an effort to stabilize the medication's fluctuating costs and ensure more dependable availability. |
| Read More...(Source: - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| All Tomatoes Cleared of Salmonella Risk, Officials Say |
| All types of fresh tomatoes are safe to eat, federal health officials said yesterday, lifting a six-week-old warning that led restaurants to pull them and triggered tens of millions of dollars in losses for the tomato industry. |
| Read More...(Source: - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| MacroGenics Buys Drug Developer to Bolster Cancer Work |
| The orphaned Raven has found a parent. MacroGenics, a Rockville biotech, announced yesterday that it bought cancer drug developer Raven Biotechnologies of South San Francisco, Calif. Until last March, it looked like another biotech firm would be adopting Raven. VaxGen, also of South San Francisco... |
| Read More...(Source: - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Study: Low-Carb Diet Best for Weight, Cholesterol |
| ATLANTA -- The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques. |
| Read More...(Source: - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:56:57 EDT) |
| Senate Agrees to $50 Billion AIDS Plan |
| The Senate approved legislation yesterday that would triple funding to fight AIDS and other diseases around the globe, rejecting efforts to pare down the bill's $50 billion price tag. |
| Read More...(Source: - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports |
| ATLANTA -- The South tips the scales again as the nation's fattest region, according to a new government survey. |
| Read More...(Source: - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:49:22 EDT) |
| Tracking Produce Proves Complex |
| The salmonella outbreak of 2008 may go down in history as the case of the missing tomatoes. |
| Read More...(Source: - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Congress Easily Overrides Medicare Veto |
| President Bush sought to block a bill yesterday aimed at forestalling an 11 percent cut in payments to doctors taking care of Medicare patients, but Congress quickly overrode his veto. |
| Read More...(Source: - Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Grocers' Rules Follow Wave Of Sustainably Farmed Fish |
| There is organic milk. Free-range chicken. Grass-fed beef. Now make room in the fridge for sustainably farmed Arctic char. |
| Read More...(Source: - Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Study: When kids become teens, they get sluggish |
| CHICAGO -- One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do. |
| Read More...(Source: - Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:39:38 EDT) |
| Family Adjusts to Rules of the Road |
| Last summer, my oldest daughter, Sapna, passed a multiple-choice driver's exam, secured a learner's permit and asked to sit in the driver's seat. This was a source of concern for me. As an epidemiologist, it is my job to look at incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations and suggest... |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Adolescence Can Sting Adopted Kids |
| Adolescents are expected to chafe at adult oversight, act impulsively and brood about the meaning of life. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Too-Busy Teens Feel Health Toll |
| For Jessica Huey, the circumstances preceding the episodes she calls her "nervous breakdowns" were always the same: She was exhausted, it was 1 a.m. and she still faced a mountain of homework due when school started at 7:20 the next morning. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Study: When kids become teens, they get sluggish |
| CHICAGO -- One of the largest studies of its kind shows just how sluggish American children become once they hit the teen years: While 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do. |
| Read More...(Source: - Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:08:16 EDT) |
| Peer Pressure's Weight |
| Peer groups are known to impact whether teens smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or take drugs. Now, there's new evidence to suggest that they also affect adolescents' body image as well as their dieting efforts and workouts, as you'll learn in today's Lean Plate Club column. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:44:58 EDT) |
| Did You Know... |
| 17 percent of U.S. adolescents ages 12 to 19 are overweight. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:12:08 EDT) |
| It's Not the Answers That Are Biased, It's the Questions |
| Wal-Mart and Toys R Us announced this spring that they will stop selling plastic baby bottles, food containers and other products that contain a chemical that can leach into foods and beverages. Even low doses of the chemical (bisphenol A, or BPA) are linked to prostate and mammary-gland changes in... |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| What's That Hiding Under Your Shirt? An Ab-solute Disappointment? |
| The annual Beach Body propaganda begins sometime in the dead of winter. That's when the prospect of summer sex appeal is used to mount a crusade for the grail we're all supposed to covet: washboard abs, chiseled, chain-mail six-packs that channel sweat like Paul Newman on a shirtless road gang or... |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Peer Pressure Can Carry Great Weight in Girls' Eating and Exercise Habits |
| Television, movies, magazines and other popular media often get blamed for pressuring teen girls to be as thin as models. But a new study finds that peer pressure also plays a strong role in how some adolescent girls control their figures. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Cooking Up Burger Alchemy In an Argentine Laboratory |
| LA PLATA, Argentina -- The quest for the perfect hamburger, as any ambitious barbecuer knows, is an exact science. And science is all about trial and error. |
| Read More...(Source: - Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Sideline Rage -- Sports Parents Go Berserk |
| Among psychologists who study sports, there is a code word for parents who lose their temper standing on the sidelines of their children's soccer, baseball and football games: THOSE parents -- Tempestuous, Harried, Overwrought, Self-absorbed and Emotional. |
| Read More...(Source: - Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| They're So Vein: Tapping A Job Market |
| There's the 60-year-old math teacher from India and the 34-year-old medical assistant from Eritrea. A 52-year-old Dodge car salesman who left New Orleans after Katrina, and a 32-year-old bank teller who cared for two parents until both died. A 26-year-old college grad. All trying their best to pu... |
| Read More...(Source: - Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Older Americans May Be Happier Than Younger Ones |
| Many times in science, research studies point in conflicting directions. Part of the challenge -- and the fun -- of watching science is to try to sort out lines of intersecting evidence hidden amid a welter of confusing data. |
| Read More...(Source: - Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Japan's Killer Work Ethic |
| TOKYO -- Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| L.A. Official Wants a Change of Menu |
| LOS ANGELES, July 12 -- Citing alarming rates of childhood obesity and a poverty of healthful eating choices, a city councilwoman is pushing for a moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in South-Central Los Angeles. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Pioneering Heart Surgeon |
| Michael E. DeBakey, 99, the father of modern cardiovascular surgery, who invented scores of medical procedures and instruments, developed the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital and established what later became the Veterans Affairs hospital system, died July 11 at Methodist Hospital in Houston. The ho... |
| Read More...(Source: - Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| In Search of Young Mouths To Feed In Summer |
| Montgomery County officials dispatch a school bus daily to roam a Silver Spring neighborhood with an unlikely task: find children interested in going to school, in midsummer, for the food. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Taking a Bite Out of Summer Fun |
| All Robin Levin has to do is step outside her Takoma Park home, and the hordes descend. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Noxious Weed Sickens Six Who Ate Stew |
| Six people hospitalized with nausea, dizziness and hallucinations after a family dinner in Gaithersburg on Wednesday were sickened by jimson, a potential deadly weed that was mistakenly used as a cooking ingredient, Montgomery County health authorities said. |
| Read More...(Source: - Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Mental Activity May Affect Autism-Linked Genes |
| New research suggests that some cases of autism arise from defects in genes that can be turned on or off by mental activity, a finding that sheds light on the devastating condition and might eventually lead to strategies to treat it. |
| Read More...(Source: - Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Melanoma Rates Increase Among Younger Women |
| Increasing numbers of younger women continue to receive diagnoses of the most dangerous form of skin cancer even as the rate of new cases has leveled off in younger men, federal health officials reported yesterday. |
| Read More...(Source: - Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT) |
| Sri Lanka's answer to Mardi Gras |
| Read full story for latest details. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:16:09 EDT) |
| Gotham City? Looks like Chicago |
| Read full story for latest details. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:18:53 EDT) |
| United reports $2.7 billion loss |
| United Airlines parent UAL Corp. stock soared after it reported a second-quarter net loss of $2.7 billion Tuesday due to the soaring price of fuel and announced thousands of new job cuts. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:11:48 EDT) |
| Beijing hotels slash rates ahead of Olympics |
| Read full story for latest details. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:43 EDT) |
| View from the top of Germany |
| The Zugspitze is the highest point in Germany. Standing on this 9,700-foot peak, one traveler says he feels like a maestro conducting a symphony of snow-capped peaks, as the mighty Alps stretch seemingly forever to the right and left. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:53:04 EDT) |
| Mount McKinley tour goes green |
| Read full story for latest details. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:46:22 EDT) |
| Unfit truckers still on the road, study shows |
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| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:23:14 EDT) |
| Mystical canyon is a 'living monument' |
| Read full story for latest details. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:46:31 EDT) |
| India lures a new kind of American tourist |
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| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Travel - Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:10:52 EDT) |