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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

This undated image provided by Capt. Bobby Rice shows Ron Poirier fishing for tuna. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, Poirier figured he’d dumped hundreds of...

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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and...

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Texas Tech won't raise tuition, fees for 2013-14

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Texas Tech University students will not pay more for tuition and fees in 2013-14. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (http://bit.ly/14BJvv1 ) reported Saturday that the regents' vote...

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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius...

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Why I Got A Preventive Mastectomy At 21

Loading Slideshow Christina Applegate The actress was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36 in 2008. One month later, after learning she had tested positive for the BRCA1 gene (also known as the...

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State gets brighter budget numbers

Democrats who control the state legislature were already eager to spend more money than was proposed in Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget, which would grow by 5.5 percent. Then on Friday, the legislature’s...

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Farewell, Shameless … Gallagher joie de vivre has...

A derelict, dipsomaniac addict, addled by breakfast-time, at the mercy of his rampant libido, driven by the hunt for the next free drink or drug, flogging his baby's milk for a lager. This is the life...

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Carlow fitness proves the difference against Lond...

A 10% tax on fizzy drinks, sweets, biscuits, crisps, and chocolate is to be recommended to the Health minister as a way of tackling the country's soaring obesity problem. A 24-hour prayer vigil for...

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Lifestyle change may ease heart risk from job str...

But heart risks were cut in half among people - stressed or not - who maintained a Healthy lifestyle compared to those who drank, smoked or were obese. Sign Up For Traffic Text Alerts "For many...

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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the...

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8 train victims at hospitals, 2 critical

Injuries included lacerations, head injuries, shoulder pain, neck pain and, in at least one case, a spinal injury. "It was one of the worst, if not the worst, mass casualty event we've seen," said...

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Despite controversies, Obama agenda marches on

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the...

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More health education needed for UAE schools: off...

Given that schools are often places where children become ill, increasing awareness of Health and hygiene habits among children will lead to a lower disease burden, reduced absenteeism and instil...

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2013/05/18 17:43

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Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped

A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of...

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FBI executes search warrant in ricin letter case

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are executing a search warrant Saturday in the case of 2 letters containing the deadly poison ricin that were intercepted this week at...

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In Which Hand Do You Hold Your Cellphone?

A new study reveals that the hand you hold your cellphone to your ear with is determined by brain region dominance. Researchers found that left-brain thinkers use their right hand, while right-brain...

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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs

O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) - Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of...

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Petaluma360.com | Petaluma Argus-Courier | Petalu...

If approved, rent from the development could bring in an extra $200,000 to $250,000 a year to support the district's community-based Health initiatives. The project calls for a 14,500-square-foot...

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Nehawu Condemns the Death of Twenty Three Initiat...

NEHAWU condemns the death of twenty three initiates in Mpumalanga and is calling for the intervention by the national department of Health and the provincial administration. What is even more...

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