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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Killer Cat Put on Prozac Faces Death
FAIRFIELD, Conn. –Janet Kettman says she and her neighbors on Sunset Circle are always looking over their shoulders in fear the stalker will strike again. "He attacks from the back," Kettman said Monday. "You never see it coming. He has … Continue reading
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Bouncing Off the Walls
Most of the time the parts of our brain responsible for our career as an English teacher and the part of our brain responsible for our career as a Red Sox fan are completely separate, and that’s the way we … Continue reading
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Ten Pills a Day Keeps the Doctors in Pay
WASHINGTON — What preventive health measures would save the most lives for the least money? The top rank goes to taking aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks and strokes in men over 40 and women over 50, according to a … Continue reading
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Ten Pills a Day Keeps the Doctors in Pay
WASHINGTON — What preventive health measures would save the most lives for the least money? The top rank goes to taking aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks and strokes in men over 40 and women over 50, according to a … Continue reading
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Here It Comes Again, Ready or Not
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., right, talks with an aide before he records his weekly podcast Thursday, May 18, 2006, in Washington. Frist personally responds to questions on his blog weekly and is among politicians who have taken … Continue reading
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Slooow Striptease Brilliant Promotion
A model has been coated in a million individual Swarovski crystals and is being slowly undressed online. The crystals are being sold off individually on eBay for upwards of one euro (68p) each. As the crystals are sold, more and … Continue reading
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Tower of Babel Around Language
After an emotional debate fraught with symbolism, the Senate yesterday voted to make English the "national language" of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except … Continue reading
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Chimp-like Hobbits Had Brain Disorder
A US-British team of scientists has challenged the idea that the tiny skeleton from Indonesia dubbed "the Hobbit" is a new human species. Writing in Science magazine, the team presents an alternative theory that the remains could be those of … Continue reading
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Lilac Thursday
Just when we were down to our last hope – that the Celtics would draft that kid named "Noah" – it finally stopped raining. So what to do, on one of our last days of relative freedom before the beginning … Continue reading
Grandma was a Chimp – Hide the Bananas
Boston scientists released a provocative report yesterday that challenges the timeline of human evolution and suggests that human ancestors bred with chimpanzee ancestors long after they had initially separated into two species. The researchers, working at the Cambridge-based Broad Institute … Continue reading
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1,500 Year Old Tattooed Lady Appears in Peru
An exquisitely preserved and elaborately tattooed mummy of a young woman has been discovered deep inside a mud-brick pyramid in northern Peru, archaeologists from Peru and the U.S. announced today. The 1,500-year-old mummy may shed new light on the mysterious … Continue reading
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