LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
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WASHINGTON — Think cooking the perfect Thanksgiving dinner is stressful? Something else is far more likely to raise your blood pressure: salt hidden in all those goodies.
Don’t blame the chef. Much of that salt was hidden from him or her, too.
Americans eat nearly two teaspoons of salt […]
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By Steve Young
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Published: November 29, 2007
A report released Wednesday ranks South Dakota as the healthiest state in America when it comes to depression levels - a finding that flattered officials here still view with some skepticism.
Mental Health America, formerly the National Mental Health Association, compared depression levels and suicide rates for all 50 states and […]
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By Seth Borenstein AP Science Writer WASHINGTON—Nearby Venus is looking a bit more Earth-like with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a new European space probe.
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For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning — […]
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Just before the countrywide release, the telecom is offering the coveted mobile phone in a standalone version without a service plan for $519 less than T-Mobile.(Report)
By W. David Gardner, InformationWeek
The price of Apple’s iPhone took another price hit Wednesday as France Telecom’s Orange carrier began marketing the coveted […]
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By DAVID POGUE
Don’t look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware.
The company’s overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful. Remember the Smart Display? The Spot Watch? The Ultra-Mobile PC? The original Zune?
Me neither.
But Microsoft’s new second-generation Zune music/photo/video player is a pleasure to use. It fixes a long […]
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By Patrick O’Driscoll, USA TODAY
Almost all of Hawaii’s non-migratory native birds are on a new watch list of the USA’s most imperiled bird species.
The list, released Wednesday by the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy, includes about one-quarter of the more than 700 species that breed in the USA.
The groups cited an array of […]
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