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Insurance Study Finds GMC Sierra 1500 Best for Safety
KickingTiresA new study of insurance rates for injury protection and medical payments ranked the GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck highest for occupant injury protection. The Fiat 500 ranks lowest. Insure.com studied prevailing insurance rates across hundreds of ZIP codes...Tags: GEICO, Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Disasters and Accidents
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Sun Visors That Come Up Short
KickingTiresThe dog days of summer are in full swing in the high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains (read: close to the sun with little ozone filtration). My kids are back to school and afterschool activities, so I'm often driving north......Tags: Mini, Back to School, Lexus, Passenger Cars, Skin Cancer
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Obese Drivers at High Risk in Cars
KickingTiresA new study by the Emergency Medicine Journal finds that overweight drivers are between 20 and 80 times more likely to die in car crashes than individuals with a "normal" body mass index below 30. As if we needed more......Tags: Weight, Body Mass Index, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease
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Ted Deutch, Ron Klein speak out against federal court ruling on stem cells
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsUpdated 12:05 p.m. U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch and Ron Klein, both Boca Raton Democrats, are speaking out on what they call the "urgent need" to lift a federal court injunction blocking federally backed embryonic stem cell research. They will be......Tags: Science and Technology, Democratic Party, Colleges and Universities, Multiple Sclerosis, Research
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Aren't all federal workers essential?
The SwampDefense Department Press Secretary Geoff Morell. (Pentagon photo.) by Frank James At today's Pentagon briefing, Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell, was asked about the preparations his agency is making to continue operating in the event...Tags: Defense, Al Gore, Heads of State, Politics, Health
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Health care cost analysis gains ground
The SwampBy Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Medical researchers and politicians are tiptoeing into an area of health care that makes some Americans uncomfortable, even angry, and it has nothing to do with such hot-button issues as cloning and stem-cell research. This...Tags: Barack Obama, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Elections, North Dakota, John McCain
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All the way with DNA: Voting is hereditary, profs say
Spin CycleMost people would guess it???s nurture, not nature. But genetic variation goes a long way to determining whether people vote, according to findings now published in a journal of the American Political Science Association. Authors James Fowler, Christopher...Tags: California, New York, Health, Medical Specialization
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DOD lobby led to billions in research
The SwampBy Euna Lhee When Fran Visco welcomed 1,600 breast cancer researchers and their advocates to Baltimore this week, she was doing more than opening a symposium for scientists. She was celebrating one of the most successful medical lobbying efforts in......Tags: Science and Technology, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Research, Politics, Health
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Welcome to Lasagna Awareness Month
Dining@LargeRosebud has pointed out that July is National Lasagna Awareness Month. For some reason this is really worrying me. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about national awareness months:A national or international awareness day [or week or month] is a......Tags: Health
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Bruno: Done on Friday
Spin CycleIt's kind of anticlimactic, but Joe Bruno announces his last day will be Friday. He's resigning his seat, leaving the GOP with a 31-30 margin in the Senate. He closes his release: "Now I will bring my time in public......Tags: Civil and Public Service, IBM, Upper House, Politics, Health
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Albany: Another wrinkle on the Senate battle
Spin CycleThe Democrats need one seat to tie and two seats to reverse the GOP's 32-30 margin in the Senate. Except that, now, the Albany Project reports that Bronx Democrat Ruben Diaz has decided to run on both the D......Tags: Republican Party, Parliament, Government, Upper House, Same-Sex Marriage
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USDA lost track of cattle: audit
The Swampby Stephen J. Hedges Despite persistent fears of mad cow disease in Canadian beef, the Department of Agriculture has failed to properly track hundreds of Canadian cattle coming into the United States, the department's inspector general has concluded. An...Tags: Science and Technology, Agricultural Research and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Animals, Animal Diseases
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