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Cancer As a Non-Tragedy: How Far Can a Positive Attitude Go?
A few weeks ago, I took my mom shopping for a refrigerator to replace the one that had been in the kitchen since the Nixon administration. Pleasantries with the salesman took a more somber turn when he revealed that his wife has breast cancer and is seeking to heal herself solely through the power of prayer. My mom listened attentively, then touched the salesman on the chest and said, authoritatively, "Carrot juice! And blueberries!"
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Bones From Time of Christ Reveal a Brutal History
In the days of ancient Rome, it was never a good idea to send amateurs to pacify the Germanic tribes. The Emperor Augustus found this out in A.D. 9, when his handpicked crony, Varus, blundered into a series of ambushes in the Teutoburg Forest and lost about 20,000 men in three days.
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Yes, I Can Be a Jerk, But It May Be My Meds// By Justin Moyer (c) 2013, The Washington Post.
I cut off other drivers in traffic, then flip them the bird. I hang up on customer-service representatives telling me why they can't replace my broken refrigerator. And in the line for the playground swing set, don't even think about letting your kid get in front of mine.
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Third Death Reported in China From New Bird Flu Strain
BEIJING — Chinese authorities tried to calm spreading health concerns Wednesday after a third person was reported to have died from a new type of bird flu.
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Mountain Ranges of American West Formed in Ancient Slab Pileup
SAN FRANCISCO — New data on how the mountain chain that runs from Alaska to Mexico was formed is causing geologists to rethink how the American West was made.
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Data from Space Station Bolsters Theory of Dark Matter
The first results from a $2 billion instrument aboard the international space station have offered tentative support for the theory that exotic dark matter, invisible but abundant, permeates the universe.
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Study: Dementia tops cancer, heart disease in cost
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to $215 billion a year, according to a new study that looked at this in unprecedented detail.
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Scientists find possible hint of dark matter
GENEVA — It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.
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Dell Opens Window On Efforts To Sell Company
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dell 's financial advisers tried to persuade 71 potential bidders to make an offer for the troubled personal computer maker before two of them emerged to challenge a proposed $24.4 billion deal with the company's founder, according to documents filed Friday.
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Cancer As a Non-Tragedy: How Far Can a Positive Attitude Go?
