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NPR: Staying Healthy May Mean Learning To Love Our Microbiomes
It's busy down there: a gut bacterium splits into two, becoming two new cells.Audio File:...
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Newly-Built Homes Will No Longer Have Mail Delivered To Door
A view shows U.S. postal service mail boxes at a post office in Encinitas (Mike Blake Reuters, /February 6, 2013)Elvina NawagunaReutersJuly 23, 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under a cost-saving plan by...
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The Royal Birth Cost $15,000. The Average American Birth Is Billed At $30,000
And a relatively affordable birth at that! (Stefan Wermuth / Reuters)By Sarah Kliff, Published: July 23 at 1:09 pmE-mail the writerLast month, Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote a lengthly, excellent article...
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"American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World" (New York Times)
"I feel like I'm in a used-car lot." Renée Martin, who, with her husband, is paying for her maternity care out of pocket.Alan: Not only is American birthing expensive, infant mortality in the United...
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"These Maps Are The Key To Obamacare’s Success – Or Failure" by Ezra Klein
(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)By Sarah Kliff, Published: July 23 at 11:14 amE-mail the writerSo much of the White House’s thinking about getting the health-care law right rests on one number: 2.7 million....
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Tom Toles Cartoon: The Newborn British Prince
How many of "the wealthy" are gainfully employed?"Inside Job"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/10/daily-dose-october-152011.html
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Arctic Methane 'Time Bomb' Could Cost $60 Trillion (BBC)
Increasing temperatures in the Arctic region are reducing sea ice cover and increasing the possibility of methane leaching from the sea bedContinue reading the main storyRelated StoriesClimate extremes...
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5% Of Hospital Patients Pick Up An Infection They Didn't Have Upon Admission
Hospital-acquired infections cause the deaths of 100,000 people per year. Every year.For perspective, recall that 2700 Americans died in The Twin Towers.Once.
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"The Search For A Better Battery"
By The Week Staff | May 5, 2013The limitations of 20th-century batteries are holding back technological progress. Is a breakthrough in sight?14 COMMENTSExcerpt: "Since French physicist Gaston Planté...
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Quick! Guess which political party!
GPD: Would-be squirrel-killer injured after taping cartridge to BB gunBy Cindy SwirkoStaff writerPublished: Friday, April 26, 2013 A man who tried to shoot a squirrel for dinner by taping a .40-caliber...
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Caught On Videotape: Obama Confesses To Being Muslim... And Socialist!
Obama: 'I Am Not the Strapping, Young Muslim Socialist That I Used to Be'April 28, 2013 By CNSNews.com StaffPresident Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner. (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) -...
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Mayan Cenote (from Dzit Nup meaning Mouth of the Underworld)
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National Geographic: Sharks. How Dangerous Are They?
Sharks like this one off the coast of French Polynesia can give beach-goers a scare if they get too close to the shore. Photograph by David Doubilet, National GeographicEmily ShenkNational...
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National Geographic: The Only Creature To Have Survived The Vaccum Of Space
July 2013Germany—A color-enhanced electron microscope photo reveals a half-millimeter-long tardigrade in moss. Called water bears, these eight-legged, alien-looking invertebrates can survive extreme...
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McDonald's Fined $1.6 Million In Brazil For Happy Meal Marketing
The Huffington Post | By Caroline FairchildPosted: 04/26/2013 Brazil has a simple message for McDonald's: Stop luring our kids to the golden arches with shiny toys, just to hit them with fatty foods...
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NRA-certified firearm safety instructor accidentally shoots himself
gunsandammo.infoA .38 Special made a special delivery right into its owner's finger when it went off while he played with it.By Aaron Rupar Tue., Apr. 30 2013 15 CommentsFor the second time this month,...
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Genuine Obama Administration Scandal
Snopeshttp://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/pigford.asp***The New York Times reported Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has likely enabled massive fraud in the Pigford series of...
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