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Travelers save money, make friends through global Web site
May 04, 2009 |
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When Will Bradwell and his friends were planning a cross-country road trip three years ago, the idea of paying for hotels, gas and food seemed impossible for their college-student budgets.
School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix
Nov 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.
Student Proving Walls (Even Sofas) Can Talk
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Most college students will admit to searching their couch cushions for extra coins to do laundry. But Jon McKinney's cushion hunt isn't about finding money. He wants to help epidemiologists identify what's ...
Old fashioned bartering in a high tech world
May 20, 2009 |
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I'm curious to see how something like this works out. TheSmarterBarter.com is launching a new Web-based bartering system that pledges to help people who want to trade things find other like-minded people.
Videogames delivering workouts along with fun
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Videogame lovers are being coaxed off couches as the industry sprints ahead with a trend toward fitness titles and motion-sensing controllers.
Why dopamine freezes parkinson patients and drives drug addicts
Aug 08, 2008 |
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Parkinson's disease and drug addiction are polar opposite diseases, but both depend upon dopamine in the brain. Parkinson's patients don't have enough of it; drug addicts get too much of it. Although the importance of dopamine ...
Bing search gets vocal on new Samsung mobile phone
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Bing is getting vocal on a new Samsung mobile phone that lets people command Microsoft's Internet search engine by talking.
Simple chemical procedure augments therapeutic potential of stem cells
Oct 31, 2008 |
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Adult stem cells resemble couch potatoes if they hang out and divide in a dish for too long. They get fat and lose key surface proteins, which interferes with their movement and reduces their therapeutic potential. Now, via ...
Can you be born a couch potato?
Jul 16, 2008 |
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The key to good health is to be physically active. The key to being active is… to be born that way? The well-documented importance of exercise in maintaining fitness has created the idea that individuals can manage their ...
Fight over bringing Aussie carp to Britain
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Jul 03, 2006 |
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A private fishery in England is being inundated with letters and e-mails from anglers over plans to stock an 11-acre lake with imported Australian carp.
Exercise in a Pill
Jul 31, 2008 |
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Trying to reap the health benefits of exercise? Forget treadmills and spin classes, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may have found a way around the sweat and pain. They identified ...
You Snooze, You Lose? Not True
May 08, 2007 |
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Tired after lunch or by mid-afternoon? You might think that you should go buy yourself some coffee. But according to UCSD researcher Sara Mednick, you’re better off taking a nap.
You Don't Have to Struggle With Social Anxiety
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To a certain extent, just about everyone has some sort of social anxiety -- from the reluctance to chat with an airplane seat mate to the nervousness that comes with public speaking.
For kidney disease patients, staying active might mean staying alive
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Getting off the couch could lead to a longer life for kidney disease patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that, ...
Study questions assumptions about human sensitivity to biological motion
Oct 17, 2007 |
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Humans may not be any more sensitive in detecting biological motion compared with nonbiological motion, concludes a study recently published in Journal of Vision, an online, free-access publication of the Association for ...
