Once upon a time, food was just food. You got hungry: you ate. Although an appreciation of the relationship between diet and health dates back at least as far as Hippocrates ("Let food be thy medicine, and medicine thy food"), no one really understood what was good for you or why, at least not in a physiological, scientific way.…
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PHILADELPHIA-One hundred and forty-four years ago Tuesday, Abraham Lincoln was watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington when John Wilkes Booth slipped into the president's box and shot him.
Lincoln died the next morning, and now his blood and brain matter-on part of a pillowcase at a Philadelphia museum-are being sought for DNA testing that may definitely solve a medical mystery.…
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CHICAGO-The removal of rankings for gay- and lesbian-themed books at Amazon.com, which created an Internet-fueled uproar for two days, was all "an accident"-and not the work of a hacker or a corporate conspiracy-according to a company spokeswoman.
In a statement released late Monday, Patty Smith, Amazon's director of corporate communications, said the problem resulted from "an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" that affected 57,310 titles in the company's sites in the U.…
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-College students are using credit cards more than ever to pay for their education, and they're carrying high balances on those cards, a new report suggests.
Students who used credit cards for tuition, books and other direct college expenses last year charged an average of $2,200, up from $942 four years ago, according to the survey, conducted by private lender Sallie Mae.…
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FORT WORTH, Texas-Jack Spirko owns a media company, is married to a nurse and has a son in college. He has two dogs and lives in a nice house with a pool in a diversified neighborhood in suburban Arlington, Texas.
Spirko, 36, considers himself an average guy with a normal life.…
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CHICAGO-Shawn Alexander can recognize the look immediately. It's one of surprise when a student enters his African-American studies class and finds, standing at the front, a white guy.
"Years ago, it happened more," said Alexander, 38, who grew up near Rockford, Ill.…
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WASHINGTON-The Treasury Secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn't pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration.
Now, as Wednesday's tax deadline looms, some Americans are asking: Why should we comply with the arcane requirements of the IRS when top administration officials failed to do the same?
The harsh reaction to such disclosures resonates not just among the anti-tax people organizing protests around the country this week, but in low-income neighborhoods of cities like Los Angeles-and is even discussed in the hushed hallways of the Internal Revenue Service.…
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WASHINGTON-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has taken flak from political foes at home, and national Republican leaders are miffed that she won't be at one of their fundraisers this spring.
Still, the former vice presidential contender is intent on visiting southern Indiana this week to attend what's billed as the country's largest annual banquet for anti-abortion activists.…
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