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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Mexican politicians: going to the dogs, er, cats?
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By Luc Cohen MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Fed up with politicians they call "rats," a group of friends in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named Morris. Xalapa resident Sergio Chamorro, who adopted the cat in August, said the plan began as a joke between friends borne out of their frustration with the Veracruz state government over freedom of speech. "Fed up of voting for rats? Vote for a cat," reads one campaign poster featuring the black and white cat, using the Spanish "ratas" for rats and "gato" for Morris. …
Late Bedtimes Linked To Weight Gain In Healthy People
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U.S. to retire most chimpanzees from medical research
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Program gives Ark. dogs, prisoners a second chance
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Fewer minority kids diagnosed with ADHD
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What would YOU do in this sexual situation?
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July brings an abundance of planetary activity
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Even under July’s star-spangled and muggy conditions, Washington’s heavens give proof through the night that our solar system siblings are still there.
Find the effervescent Venus low in the western sky at dusk. How can you tell it’s Venus? It looks like an airliner — with landing lights — on approach. It’s a negative-3.9-magnitude object, quite bright and easy to spot from urban locations. Slowly, it sinks toward the horizon as night settles. You’ll find the young, skinny moon below Venus on July 10, and the crescent moon scoots south on successive nights.
With stress down and happiness up, old age can be the time of your life
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Concerned about getting older? There might be fewer reasons to fret. ¶ Older people do experience changes and losses, such as retiring from a job, bidding old friends good-bye and seeing some cognitive skills decline. ¶ But the later years also offer some relief from stress. And rates of depression actually go down after age 60, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you take the right steps, old age can rank among the best years of your life. Here are five ways you get better with age.
NIH to retire most research chimpanzees
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In a significant step toward ending controversial biomedical research using chimpanzees, the federal government announced a decision Wednesday to retire all but about 50 of the animals available for testing and retire them to sanctuaries.