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Pistachios for a Healthy Heart
Posted by Andrew Weil, M.D.

I love nuts. Fortunately for people like me, nuts do have a place in a healthy diet.
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Aussies to build climate 'spine'

July 09 2007 at 10:01AM

By Rob Taylor

Canberra - Australia will create a wildlife corridor spanni read more »
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Man to set off on sea trip in reed boat

July 09 2007 at 02:22AM

Washington/New York - Like the great Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdah read more »
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Scientists are predicting an end to the era of human and animal drug testing, saying that computer models will one day become so advanced that they w read more »
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Why isn’t everyone beautiful, smart and healthy? Or, in a less-polite formulation, why haven’t ugly, stupid, unhealthy people been bred out of the po read more »
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Fossils found in the United States show dinosaurs lived alongside their ancestors for tens of millions of years, disproving long-held theories assumi read more »
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Wanted: People who don't mind getting stung

July 25 2007 at 10:53PM

Oslo - Testing a new sun screen, aimed at protecting against jelly read more »
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Daniel E. Koshland Jr., the UC Berkeley molecular biologist who revised scientists' notions of how enzymes work, remodeled the Berkeley biology depa read more »
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Crows have shown that two tools are better than one when it comes to problem solving, scientists say.

A University of Auckland study has revealed read more »
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TORONTO (IPS/GIN) - U.S.-funded aerial sprayings of coca plantations in Colombia near the Ecuador border has severely damaged the DNA of local reside read more »
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Good news: All the hours kids spend watching The Simpsons, they also may be learning something about science.

Paul Halpern, a physics and mathemat read more »
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The belly: it’s the first spot to get paunchy and the last place to look sleek. A tight core is the one thing we all want (possibly even more than an read more »
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Scientists have worked out why mosquitoes make a beeline for certain people but appear to leave others almost untouched.

Specific cells in one of read more »
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Imagine trying to understand history without any dates. You know, for example, that the First World War came before the Second World War, but how lon read more »
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The average mouse doesn't care much about skin cancer. Outside of Disney cartoons, you won't see one slathering on sunscreen before heading out to read more »
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Once sea-turtle hatchlings hit the surf, they vanish for up to five years. Where the half-dollar-size tots spend these "lost years" while balloonin read more »
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Contrary to the way it is portrayed by Creationists, the theory of evolution wasn’t handed down from the Goddess Athe to her true prophet Darwin, to read more »
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JENA, La. (AP) — It's got all the elements of a Delta blues ballad from the days of Jim Crow: hangman's nooses dangling from a shade tree; a myster read more »
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If you want to have lots of kids, look for a Barry White instead of a Justin Timberlake. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study sugg read more »
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