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- Brazil's Silva quits smoking after 50 years (AP)
 AP - Brazil's president said Tuesday that he kicked the smoking habit he had for 50 years after a recent health scare sent his blood pressure soaring.
- Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya (AFP)
 AFP - Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.
- Obese Before Birth?
 Experts have long thought that certain genetic codes heighten the risk of obesity. But can the risks even be seen during gestation?
Vivian Manning-Schaffel: It's quite possible, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times.
The piece cites a recent study conducted by Dr. Elsie M. Taveras, an assistant professor of population medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Taveras' team studied 1,826 mother-child pairs from pregnancy through the child's first five years of life -- and was able to identify "more than a dozen factors in the prenatal period through age five that can
- Baby slings to get federal warning after suffocations (AP)
 AP - The U.S. government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings — those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents can sling around their chests to carry their baby.
- U.S. herpes rates remain high: CDC (Reuters)
 Reuters - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
- A runner's glossary
Image by greeblie via Flickr
Whether you’re new to the sport or not, running jargon can seem like a foreign language. If you’re training for a race, workouts that call for “800m repeats” or “negative split” long runs can seem intimidating. And what the heck is a fartlek? Lucky for you, we here at Running Shorts have decoded some of the sport’s most common terms. Read on to bone up on your running vocabulary and maybe even impress your fellow road racers.
Interval – refers to speed work that alternates between a specific distance of fast running followed by a period of rest.
Repeat - usually
- Starbucks Tests New Trenta Size
 You can order a drink in tall, grande or venti size, but until recently, you had to order a second drink if you wanted more than 24 ounces of a cold beverage at Starbucks. No longer – Starbucks is now testing a new, larger cup size for both iced coffee and iced tea beverages. Tentatively titled Trenti (or Trenta, depending upon your source), the new 31-ounce cup is being tested in the Phoenix and Tampa markets. This is not the first time that Starbucks has delved into a larger beverage size – in 2008 they dabbled with a “Double Grande” size, but it was quickly discontinued. For the moment, Sta
- The 'good old days' when kids just had to suck it up
“Back in my day, kids were kids! We worked out our problems on our own. We didn’t go crying to some stranger with a whole bunch of initials after his name.”
Gus was ridiculing a conversation a fellow therapist and I were having about a 13-year-old she was treating for depression and acute anxiety. I didn’t rise to his bait, but it wasn’t because I had no interest in defending my profession. Rather, as with the college guys at the other end of the bar lamenting yet another epic collapse by their beloved Jets (this was before the team got good), it was that I’d heard the complaint so often it h
- The Secrets of Success: Make A Plan
 During our special 15-day series, "The Secrets of Success," find out how thousands lost weight, improved their health, and changed their lives--forever!
- 5 Healthy Habits to Start on Spring Break
 “Nothing changes until you do.” This is probably one of my favorite sayings. If you have ever complained about not eating healthy enough, working too much, not having enough time for exercise, or not taking care of yourself the way you should then you have probably spent some time wishing things could change. Here are five ideas to help get you started and make more productive use of your spring break.
1. Take time to plan. Without a plan, you’re stuck with good intentions that you can’t execute. If you have extra time over spring break, do some personal reflection and goal setting. Think abo
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- Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in Calif. (AP)
 Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway.
- Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M (AP)
Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, evidence that employers are slowly ramping up hiring. The number of openings in January rose about 7.6 percent, to 2.7 million, compared with December, the Labor Department said.
- U.S. urges Greece to fix debt woes, spur growth (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece s main priority right now should be to move forward on its plans to revive economic growth and bring its debt problems under control, an Obama administration official said on Tuesday. The official, speaking ahead of a meeting between Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and President Barack Obama, also highlighted steps the administration has taken to rein in ...
- EU urges US to join in action against speculators (AP)
European officials urged the U.S. to join in a crackdown on speculators who bet against Europe's currency union, warning they might ban some credit default swaps -- opaque financial instruments blamed for worsening the world financial crisis.
- Job openings up sharply in January to 2.7M (AP)
 AP - Job openings rose sharply earlier this year, evidence that employers are slowly ramping up hiring as the economy improves.
- Continental CEO: We will cancel flights before being fined (AP)
 AP - Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers.
- Chevron to shed 2,000 jobs, sell some assets (AP)
- Samsung, Panasonic start selling 3-D TVs this week (AP)
 AP - Want to be the first one on your block with a 3-D television? It will cost you about ,000.
- Drug Companies Go Head-to-Head
The biggest maker of brand-name drugs and the global leader in generic drugs are going head to head for control of Ulm, Germany’s leading generic-drug maker, reports the New York Times. America’s Pfizer (PFE) and Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA) are in a bidding war for Ratiopharm. Based in Germany, Ratiopharm is attractive because the country is the “largest generic market in Europe.” As the second-largest supplier of generic drugs, Ratiopharm is “the world’s fifth-largest maker of generics, accounting for 3 percent of the global market.” Pfizer views this as a lucrative deal be
- Despite fears, big powers resist trade wars
It's the trade war that wasn't. Fears that the deep global recession would fuel protectionist measures have not been borne out, a major survey found. Commissioned by the Group of 20 leading industrial powers, the study found that the United States and its major trading partners have cut back sharply on trade-killing restrictions since September, despite strong political pressures at home. "Most G-20 members continue to manage successfully the political process of keeping domestic protectionist pressures under control, despite a difficult environment for some of them where employment levels and
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- Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses
 As Toyota sought to contain the fallout from a California sudden-acceleration case involving a Prius, another Prius slammed into ...
- Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California (AP)
The government sent investigators Tuesday to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a high-profile new headache that raised questions about the safety of its beloved hybrid.
- HP Touts Flash as Killer App Against Apple's iPad (PC World)
PC World - What will HP's Slate Tablet have that Apple's iPad won't? It's Adobe Flash, a key Internet technology that HP is touting as the key difference between the two platforms. And, HP is right, though how Flash support will translate into sales remains to be seen.
- Oil recovers some early losses (AP)
- Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All
Cisco has unveiled its biggest routing system to date, one that the company says is capable of linking everyone in China on a video call.
- Playing the Climate Change Odds
 When politicians and lobbyists argue about climate change, some frame it as a yes/no issue: is it happening or not? But few mainstream scientists question whether our planet is warming—the issue is how much and how fast?
- As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit (AP)
AP - The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.
- Energy Dept. still sees -plus gasoline coming (AP)
- China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (AP)
 AP - China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
- What ever happened to 'women and children first?'
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In a fire or related emergency, there’s one rule by which we’re supposed to abide: women and children first.
But do we abide by it in real life? Science says: That depends.
Basically, it depends on whether there’s enough time during the disaster for social norms to take back over from pure panic.
That’s the conclusion of a new study (abstract) about the Titanic and the Lusitania. In short, the Titanic sunk very slowly, allowing for social norms to be restored; the Lusitania sunk quickly, meaning it was every man and woman and child for him or her self.
Here are the stu
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