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Little Girl Missing 5 Weeks Never Reported Lost
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Little Girl Missing 5 Weeks Never Reported Lost

News – A woman accused of not reporting her daughter missing for five weeks refused to answer a judge's question of where her daughter was in a bizarre missing person case that continues to frustrate investigators. The Mother claims she was doing her own search.

View Story Discuss (15) (local6.com) 2 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on July 18, 2008 03:19pm

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Caring for a Sprain

Health & Fitness – There's a good chance that while playing or stepping on an uneven surface, you will sprain your ankle. More than 25,000 people do it every day, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

View Story Discuss (0) (health.yahoo.com) 1 day ago by GregD

Voted for on July 18, 2008 03:12pm

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Red yeast rice, fish oil fight high cholesterol

Health & Fitness – A REGIMEN of supplements and lifestyle coaching is just as effective as statin medication for reducing levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or 'bad' cholesterol, and more effective in helping people lose weight, new research shows.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.asiaone.com) 1 day ago by GregD

Voted for on July 18, 2008 03:10pm

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Major HIV vaccine trial scrapped

Health & Fitness – US scientists have scrapped plans for a large trial of a HIV vaccine due to concerns about its effectiveness, the Government's medical research agency said.

View Story Discuss (0) (news.com.au) 1 day ago by GregD

Voted for on July 18, 2008 03:08pm

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EPA Releases Report on Climate Change and Health

Science – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that discusses the potential impacts of climate change on human health, human welfare, and communities in the U.S. The report is called "Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems,".

View Story Discuss (0) (yosemite.epa.gov) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:27pm

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Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to brain activity

Science – Cambridge researchers have discovered that measuring activity in a region of the brain could help to identify people at risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

View Story Discuss (0) (admin.cam.ac.uk) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:24pm

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Heading Circulatory Disease Off at the Pass

Science – OHSU researchers devise ultrasound imaging technique that can spot early signs of peripheral arterial disease and prevent the serious complications that can result, including gangrene and death.

View Story Discuss (0) (ohsu.edu) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:22pm

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Iceberg scour affects biodiversity

Science – Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is going to get hit more frequently. This is due to an increase in the number of icebergs scouring the seabed as a result of shrinking winter ice.

View Story Discuss (0) (antarctica.ac.uk) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:20pm

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Lightning Remains Huge Mystery

Science – As common as lightning is, it still sparks considerable confusion among scientists. Many of the basics are understood, but researchers admit they don't really understand how lightning gets from there to here. And they're totally baffled by lightning's link to X-rays, a discovery made back in 2001.

View Story Discuss (0) (livescience.com) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:17pm

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Ways Circadian Disruption Affects Human Health

Health & Fitness – Growing evidence indicates that exposure to irregular patterns of light and darkness can cause the human circadian system to fall out of synchrony with the 24-hour solar day, negatively affecting human health -- but scientists have been unable to effectively study the relationship between circadian disruptions and human maladies.

View Story Discuss (0) (huliq.com) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:14pm

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Mississippi remains most obese state, CDC reports

Health & Fitness – Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee lead the nation when it comes to obesity, a new government survey reported Thursday. More than 30 percent of adults in each of the states tipped the scales enough to ensure the South remains the nation's fattest region.

View Story Discuss (0) (health.yahoo.com) 2 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 17, 2008 03:12pm

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Growing Neural Implants

Science – Conductive polymer coatings that weave their way into implanted tissue might one day improve the performance of medical implants, such as cochlear implants and brain stimulators used to treat Parkinson's disease. In early studies, neural interfaces coated with an electrically conductive polymer outperformed conventional metal counterparts.

View Story Discuss (0) (technologyreview.com) 3 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 16, 2008 08:30pm

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Do birds have a good sense of smell?

Science – Sight and hearing are the most important senses for birds - this is at least the received wisdom. By studying bird DNA, however, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, along with a colleague at the Cawthron Institute in New Zealand, have now provided genetic evidence that many bird species have a well-developed sense of smell

View Story Discuss (0) (mpg.de) 3 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 16, 2008 02:59pm

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A New Way To Weigh Giant Black Holes

Science – NGC 4649 contains one of the biggest black holes in the local Universe, there are no overt signs of its presence because the black hole is in a dormant state. The lack of a bright central point in either the X-ray or optical images shows that the supermassive black hole does not appear to be rapidly pulling in material towards its event horizon, nor generating copious amounts of light as it grows.

View Story Discuss (0) (chandra.harvard.edu) 3 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 16, 2008 02:57pm

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Young Galaxies Surprisingly Magnetic

Science – By analyzing light coming from distant galaxies at a time early in the universe's history, astronomers were able to show that these galaxies developed magnetic fields much sooner than expected. The finding may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how magnetic fields grow inside galaxies.

View Story Discuss (0) (space.com) 3 days ago by GregD

Voted for on July 16, 2008 02:53pm

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