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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, US researchers.
At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the opposite direction, ensuring a clean getaway, they said in a finding that h...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Once upon a time, Halloween was a one-day event. Then the pumpkins and parties started moving back to the weeks between Columbus Day and October 31.
Now the holiday is morphing into an entire season, at least in the tourism industry, ...
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Sundee Faulkner, owner of Bermuda Clayworks, got to thinking about the general public's conception that ceramics is a medium for churning out souvenirs, and resolved to do something to correct and broaden such a limited view, so she planned to bring ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ike Pappas, a longtime CBS newsman who was a few feet from presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot and reported the chaotic scene live on the air, has died at 75.
Pappas, who also covered major events like the...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Jerry Lewis raised a record $65 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in his annual Labour Day telethon, a benefit that also made a pitch for those inconvenienced by Hurricane Gustav.
This year's 22-hour telethon added a spe...
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Dear Annie: I am writing to encourage your readers to take care of their cardiovascular health. September is Vascular Disease Awareness Month, and there is no better time to remember to take care of our heart and arteries.
In 1987, I woke up in inten...
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said yesterday.
Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, sai...
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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Even with his golf done for the year, Tiger Woods found something to celebrate yesterday: His wife is pregnant with their second child.
Woods said on his Web site that Elin is expecting in late winter without being more specif...
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treatment with a combination of anti-HIV drugs, known as highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), can improve the immune systems of infected patients, but new research indicates that in young children this effect may ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University wants to shed its elitist image. It thinks soap operas can help.
The university said yesterday it had written to producers of Britain's three leading soaps, "EastEnders," "Coronation Street" and "Emmerdale," encoura...
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