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- Flu Fighter
- Thanksgiving Feast
- Creative Charity
- Smartphone Primer
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Keeping Cellphones Safe From Telemarketers
Q. Why are cellphone numbers now being released to telemarketers? A. They aren’t, so don’t believe those e-mail warnings.
Tough Choices: My Daughter, My Donor
I hemorrhaged after my son’s birth and was given a blood transfusion. In 1970, the blood supply was not tested like it is today.
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THEY MADE HISTORY- Photo Archive
NOVEMBER 29, 1963
President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1944: Alfred Blalock, aided by research and surgical technician Vivien Thomas, performs the first successful heart operation on a child with “blue baby syndrome.”
1947: Arab delegates walk out of the U.N. General Assembly after it resolves to split Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state.
Chief Justice Earl Warren and commission.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
BRAIN AEROBICS
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Shop 'Smart'
More shoppers are using smartphones to study, find and buy.
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Supplements Boost Lead Levels
Women using Chinese herbs, St. John's wort had higher levels of lead in blood.
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Retailers Shifting Sale Strategy
Attention, shoppers: It might pay to just sleep in this Black Friday.
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Staying Home for the Holidays
Poor economy makes it unaffordable for many to hit the road, skies this year.
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Exercise Makes You Hungrier
But it also may make you more readily satisfied by a meal.
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Don't Diet This Holiday
Skipping meals to "save yourself for a feast" could backfire.
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Common Hospital Infection On Rise
Cases of drug-resistant bacterial infection MRSA have risen 90 percent since 1999.
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New Retirement Planning Tool
Online retirement estimator calculates your future Social Security payments.
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LATE NIGHT HUMOR
"Well, this is pretty scary. On Saturday, there was a—this is what the news said—a slight radiation leak at Three Mile Island. They said a slight radiation leak, nothing to worry about. Although neighbors...are sleeping with one eye open. Yeah, the third eye in the middle of their head."— Jay Leno
