Tragic Accident Leaves Pole-Vaulting Champ a Paraplegic
A 21-year-old champion pole-vaulter suffered a fracture of the cervical vertebrae of her spine in a tragic accident, leaving her a paraplegic.
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Should You Really be Cooking With Olive Oil?
For most healthy cooks, extra-virgin olive oil is the pantry staple.
Manhunt underway for killer of Memphis police officer
(Reuters) – A manhunt was underway Sunday in Tennessee for the killer of a Memphis police officer who was fatally shot during a traffic stop on Saturday night, officials said. Sean Bolton, 33, died from multiple gunshot wounds after being discovered critically wounded at about 9:15 p.m. local time Saturday, Memphis police said. A citizen used the officer’s radio to report the shooting, police said. Bolton had worked for the
8 Ways To Vacation Right And Recharge Your Health
By 6 a.m., Sam Clarke is usually already on a call with an Asian tech company halfway around the world. By the afternoon, she switches to calls in the U.S. And until she goes to bed, she keeps an eye on her email. On a bad week, Clarke, a sales manager for a software startup in San Francisco, clocks in about 55 hours. In the tech industry,…
Germany's Merkel has chance of absolute majority, poll shows
Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel’s leadership during the Greece crisis has given her conservatives a chance of winning an absolute majority if an election were held next week, an opinion poll on Sunday showed. The chancellor has ruled Germany since 2005 and now governs in coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD). Not since Konrad Adenauer’s third term as chancellor ended in 1961 has the CDU/CSU ruled with an absolute majority.
Drug needle exchanges gain ground after Indiana HIV outbreak
Since Indiana opened its first state-run needle exchange last spring, Tara Burton, 25, has made weekly visits to turn over needles she used to shoot Opana, a prescription painkiller, up her track-marked arm. The one-story clinic in rural Scott County, Indiana, marks a sea change in states where conservative lawmakers had staunchly opposed old needles-for-new exchanges. An HIV epidemic in Indiana and a rise in Hepatitis C cases in Kentucky
Egypt postpones verdict in retrial of Al Jazeera journalists to Aug 29
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed for the second time the verdict in the retrial of Al Jazeera television journalists who have been charged with aiding a terrorist organization, a reference to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to Aug. 29. Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalized Canadian who has given up his Egyptian citizenship, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were released on bail in February after spending more than a year
The Smartest Way To Remove A Tick
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Could You Have Lyme Disease + Not Even Know It?
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites – that many people don’t realize they have.