May 2013
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“I hadn’t realized I’d learned to talk with a weightless tongue.”
-Commander Chris Hadfield spoke earlier today from Houston during his first press conference since returning to Earth.
Hadfield said that symptoms of adapting to Earth after four months of weightlessness on the International Space Station include dizziness, a sore body and neck and difficulty walking and...
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“There were total massacres…People were tortured, burned, shot, stabbed by soldiers. They were exterminating entire communities. You can’t say that’s not genocide.”
-Jose Cortez, an Ixil civil war survivor who runs a small NGO that aids fellow survivors, on the ongoing genocide trial in Guatemala.
Using forensic science, investigators have found compelling evidence...
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Two-thirds of American office workers experience pain on the job and a quarter expect it. Not from physical exertion, but from too much hunching, sitting, clicking and staring at screens.
According to a recent study from the American Osteopathic Association, the average “work potato” misses the equivalent of three days on the job each year simply because they don’t move enough.
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April 2013
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In 1981, President Ronald Reagan’s press secretary James Brady was critically wounded when he took a bullet to the head to save Reagan from assassination. Twelve years later, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, which helped create the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that remains in use today. Thirty-two years after being shot in...
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Anonymous asked: I am trying to find out information on a segment I saw on the News Hour regarding a hospital in Seattle that improved its efficiency by adopting new procedures and actually went to a Toyota plant to learn how to become more efficient. It may have been Virginia Mason. Can you provide me with the name of the hosptial or system and information set forth in your report? Thank you.
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“Thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.”
-Roger Ebert, from his April 2, 2013 Chicago Sun-Times article.
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March 2013
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There was no other sign the stuff had been rotting in the back of the refrigerator for nine months, other than a little brown discoloration around the edges. No mold. No bad smell.
In “Pandora’s Lunchbox” author Melanie Warner takes a look at processed foods and how they affect the human body. Learn about the seven foods you think are healthy, but aren’t (the list will...
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When 15-year-old Eric Rash took his life, his family hoped that access to his Facebook account would help them understand what possible causes might have led to his suicide. But without a password, no one is given access to log in or edit the accounts of those deceased.
What do you think about your digital life after death? Should loved ones have access to your accounts? Or should your privacy...
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