A leading expert in human nutrition has caused outrage by calling “over-fatness” a self-inflicted burden on the taxpayer.
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A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer is to collect a second winning payout of £5,000 after betting he would stay alive.
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Only a few days before, Aryelle Cormier, 17, slept in her suburban Gwinnett home by night and and attended The Paideia School by day.

But not now. At the moment, she is homeless. Cormier and 14 of her schoolmates bed down each night on a playground of the Inman Park Cooperative Preschool near downtown Atlanta, an unlikely classroom with stark questions for the typical private school kid.
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Had Bob Skipper never left his job as Multnomah County sheriff, he could be disabled, out of shape, rusty with the trigger finger and still keep his gig.

But because Skipper had retired 13 years before returning last summer to clean up the scandalized sheriff’s office, the agency that certifies police officers says he must go through a four-month basic training for new recruits or step down.
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Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter, Exodus Tyson, has died after accidentally hanging herself on a piece of exercise equipment at home.
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MEMPHIS, May 25 (UPI) — Police in Memphis said the large eye holes in a robber’s mask allowed a manager to recognize him as a recently fired employee.
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