Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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Personal Experience: Can the Latest Crop of Sports and Fitness Video Games Replace the Need for a Gym Membership?
Yahoo! Contributor Network via Yahoo! Sports Wed, 30 May 2012 18:08 PM PDT
I think we all know that gym memberships are expensive, and they are not for everyone. It is a very public experience that involves having the right clothes and looking good. If you are a bit overweight, or self conscious about your body it may not be the best place to go.

Bomb strikes UN HQ in Baghdad, 20 die, 100 injured
The Star Wed, 30 May 2012 17:45 PM PDT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A cement truck packed with explosives detonated outside the offices of the top U.N. envoy in Iraq, killing him and 19 other people and devastating the U.N. headquarters here in an unprecedented suicide attack against the world body.

Who killed Edith, 96? Coroner attacks failure to identify culprit who set granny's bad alight
Daily Mail Wed, 30 May 2012 17:44 PM PDT
Edith Stuart suffered 50 per cent burns to her body when the fire engulfed her after someone held a flame to the side of her bed at the Cleveleys Park Nursing Home in Cleveleys, Lancashire.

Peterborough police taking part in search for Montreal man in body parts case
The Peterborough Examiner Wed, 30 May 2012 17:37 PM PDT
City police have spoken with local family members of Luka Rocca Magnotta, the Montreal man wanted in connection with a gruesome slaying that saw a foot mailed to the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa, a hand found in Canada Post mail and a torso discovered in a Montreal garbage pile.[...]

London 2012 Olympics: Ben Helfgott to address England
Daily Mail Wed, 30 May 2012 17:37 PM PDT
His clothes filthy, his eyes sunken and his body little more than skin and bones, Ben Helfgott was liberated from Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945 weighing six stone.

From the archives
San Mateo Daily Journal Wed, 30 May 2012 17:27 PM PDT
The week of June 2, 2007, then-assemblyman Gene Mullin, D-South San Francisco, pulled a proposal mandating state coroners notify the next-of-kin for post-autopsy organ retention rather than eliminate the requirement they return the body parts.

Idaho pilot's plane, body found in SE Oregon
Channel 8 San Diego Wed, 30 May 2012 17:26 PM PDT
Search crews have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in southeast Oregon last week.

City offers cardio tennis
Rolla Daily News Wed, 30 May 2012 17:17 PM PDT
Improve your fitness and tennis at the same time by joining the new cardio tennis program offered by the Rolla Parks & Recreation Department. Cardio tennis is a high energy fitness activity that combines the best features of the sport of tennis with cardiovascular exercise, delivering the ultimate, full body, calorie burning aerobic workout. It is a very social and fun class for players of all ...

Detecting cancers -- from tiny bits of tumor DNA in blood
Los Angeles Times Wed, 30 May 2012 17:11 PM PDT
When cancer blooms in the body, tiny bits of tumor DNA can be found in the blood . Cancer specialists would love it if these DNA fragments could one day be used in noninvasive diagnostic tests -- “liquid biopsies ” -- that are relatively inexpensive and sensitive. There's a lot of work going on in this area right now.

Researchers Look To Lower Serious Risks To Newborns
CBS Detroit Wed, 30 May 2012 17:05 PM PDT
A local study appearing in this week's New England Journal of Medicine supports the use of whole-body hypothermia in full-term, oxygen-deprived newborns.




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