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Blue M&M dye may mend broken backs

Brady — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:20:52 +0000

The food dye that gives blue M&M’s their colour can help mend spinal injuries, researchers say.

The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around the damaged area – an event that often causes more irreversible damage than the original injury.
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Divorce ‘health scars permanent’

Brady — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:20:21 +0000

Divorce has a lingering, detrimental impact on health that even remarriage cannot fully repair, a study suggests.

A Chicago study involving 8,652 people aged 51 to 61 found divorced people have 20% more chronic illnesses such as cancer than those who never marry.
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Old Ohio church becomes gym with religious themes

Brady — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:17:32 +0000

BARBERTON, Ohio – A developer has found new life for an old church in northeast Ohio by redesigning it as a workout center.

Developer and bodybuilder Al Horvath converted a Methodist church in Barberton into a training facility he calls Faith Gym.
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Pro-marijuana ad pushes pot as Calif. budget fix

Brady — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:05:40 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO – A pro-marijuana group is launching another television bid to legalize pot in California – this time with the pitch that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state’s massive budget deficit.
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Inmate Uses Toilet Paper Cardboard to Escape

Brady — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:01:13 +0000

Columbia police have captured an inmate who allegedly escaped from the Howard County jail using a cardboard toilet paper holder. Curtis Jones of New Franklin was captured Wednesday afternoon.
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First Comes Love, Then Comes Obesity?

Brady — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:03:12 +0000

It’s full-on wedding season, but anyone about to pledge to have and to hold should pay closer attention to the bit about “in sickness and in health.” New research shows that within a few short years of getting hitched, married individuals are twice as likely to become obese as are people who are merely dating.
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Saudi women to be trained to sell lingerie

Brady — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:41:48 +0000

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Using colorful bras donated by employees at Victoria’s Secret, a group of 26 mostly Saudi women completed the first course of its kind to be offered in the kingdom – how to fit, stock and sell underwear – a training organizers hope will help boost a campaign to lift the ban on women selling underwear in the kingdom.
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Stoned Wallabies creating opium crop circles

Brady — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:34:33 +0000

Wallabies are getting stoned on Tasmania’s opium poppy crops and hopping about in circles, authorties say.

Attorney-General Lara Giddings says wallabies have created crop circles of squashed poppies as they increasingly hop in to the fields eating the poppy heads.
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Brain scans show how hypnosis can paralyze a limb

Brady — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:14:15 +0000

NEW YORK – How can a hypnotist paralyze your hand just with words? By making a part of your brain butt in on the process that normally makes your hand move, a study says.

So the brain region that’s ready to move your hand ignores its usual inputs and listens to this interloper, which says, “Don’t even bother,” the research concluded.
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Expert: It’s your fault if you’re a fatty

Brady — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:59:11 +0000

A leading expert in human nutrition has caused outrage by calling “over-fatness” a self-inflicted burden on the taxpayer.
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