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WASHINGTON (AP) - Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may view the drug as harmless, according to a report released...
The three announcements of global importance made by WITSA throughout WCIT 2008.
From Day 1 through Day 3 of WCIT 2008, the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) achieved more than it set out to do. The event was proclaimed to be the best such edition of the show dubbed the “Olympics of ICT”, and by Day 2 had seen US$1.65 billion worth of deals closed.
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oo BLENCOE, Iowa (AP) — Frightened Boy Scouts huddled in a shelter as a tornado tore through their western Iowa campground, killing four people and injuring 48 others who had little warning of the approaching twister.
Tornadoes also raked Kansas on Wednesday, killing at least two people, destroying much of the small town of Chapman and causing extensive damage on the Kansas State U...
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Europe could face an increase in outbreaks of diseases carried by insects and rodents as the climate on the continent becomes hotter and wetter, EU health experts said Thursday.
"These diseases are closely linked to climate change ... We need to address this risk," Renaud Lancelot of the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) tol...
LA PORTE - La Porte County residents can participate in the second annual statewide "Quit 2 Win" stop smoking contest.
Contest boxes will be out in the community, as well as at the Tobacco Prevention Council's annual Smoke-free Fair Day event on July 24. Registrants also may go online at www.inshape. IN.gov, or call Healthy Communities of La Porte County at (219) 326-6232 for an entry fo...
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Susan Leahy, 617-246-4823 Susan.Leahy-Schuh@bcbsma.com Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) announced today a partnership with Google Health that will expand options for members who want to create their own Personal Health Record (PHR). BCBSMA is the first health insurance company to sign an agreement to integrate on the Google Health
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The stimulus checks are working. A big increase in retail sales signaled that people are spending their rebate payments, helping to ward off a serious economic slump, at least for now.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that retail sales soared 1 percent last month, double what had been expected. It was the largest increase since November and represented st...
The three women came from different states. They hadn't met in person before, but they stood together Wednesday in front of the Kosciusko County Courthouse to raise awareness of the abuse they allege they and other girls suffered when they were students at Hephzibah House, a boarding school for girls in Warsaw.
"The first day I was there, I was brutally beaten," said Jennifer Sengpiehl, ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - In one photograph, a group of boys in possession of a much-used soccer ball mug comically for the camera, arms and legs going every which way.
Another shot, another charmer, depicts a child turning an exuberant handspring for a circle of young admirers. But the picture titled «Children Raising Children» delivers a
punch to the gut: It shows a boy of 7, maybe 8, wi...
The database, known as the Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is used by federal agencies, state and local authorities, private companies, and individuals to plan a response when chemicals are found in air, water, or soil. IRIS offers guidance on which of 540 chemical in the database are toxic, and at what levels. The IRIS website gets about 20,000 hits per year.
A backlog of as...