Wikipedia List of Sexual Slurs

A collection of known sexual slurs have a read have a laugh

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New York considers banning trans fats

Think you may be a candidate for heart disease? Perhaps you should move to New York where, soon, you may not be able to have any partially hydrogenated oils with your meals. Or just move to Denmark where those rascally trans fats are already outlaws. Would you like fries with that?

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Doctors Have Performed First Zero Gravity Surgery

French doctors carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity today, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.During a 3-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anaesthetists successfully removed a benign tumour from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer.

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Marijuana Prevents Cancer

Could you imagine that cannabis might one day offer hope as a cure for cancer? The United States government, that?s who... Last year, five scientific journals published prominent articles trumpeting cannabinoids (compounds in marijuana) as potential anti-cancer agents.

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This Is Your Ass on Drugs

Whatever you may think of its arguments, this spot is quite a departure for the ONDCP. Finally, an admission that using pot isn't necessarily calamitous. It's possible we're seeing this about-face only because previous scare-tactic ads were recently proved to increase drug use. But either way, I applaud the new, more truthful strategy.

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Poland Saved Thousand, by Fooling Nazis With Bacteria

Polish doctors during World War 2 fooled Nazis into thinking that there were Typhus outbreaks, by using a harmless bacteria that gave false positives. The Nazis feared that they would contract the disease, and left the area.

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101 Ways to Cut Your Daily Costs

>From cutting out your daily Starbucks run to cleaning out extra weight in your trunk for better gas milage, these tips will help you save in some pretty surprising ways...

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Judge grants class action status to 'light cigarette' smokers

A federal judge on Monday granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette" smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies. the manufacturers used a marketing strategy that promoted light cigarettes as a lower-risk alternative to regular cigarettes, even though their risk is the same

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Updated Rules Shorten Waits for New Lungs

A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list.

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Cigarettes vs Marijuana

Many people think smoking marijuana is just as harmful as smoking tobacco, but this is not true. Those who hold that marijuana is equivalent to tobacco are misinformed. For example, most marijuana smokers smoke the bud, not the leaf, of the plant. The bud contains only 33% as much tar as tobacco. In fact, marijuana is an expectorant.

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Millions use alternative medicine to get to sleep.

Herbs and relaxation exercises were the remedies most commonly used. About 60 percent of those who used alternative medicine for insomnia said they told their doctor they had done so. Alternative medicine use was more common among younger people, and among more educated individuals.

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British patients given body parts stolen in US

At least 40 patients have received bone grafts alleged to have been stolen in America and sold to British hospitals. The patients were treated in hospitals that had bought bone tissue for use in bone grafts from an American company that is the center of allegations that more than 1,000 body parts were stolen by gangs in New York.

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Grow Your Own Limbs

In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs.

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Adult Stem Cells Help Weakened Hearts

Using stem cells harvested from patients' own bone marrow, researchers improved cardiac function in heart attack patients months, years and even decades after the attacks, they reported Wednesday. The infusion of stem cells boosted cardiac pumping efficiency by 7% in three months a modest gain, but still a significant improvement.

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Alzheimer's Protein Injected Into Mice

Scientists injected a sticky goo from Alzheimer's victims into the brains of mice and watched it take over, provocative research that promises to help shed new light on the earliest stages of the memory-robbing disease.

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How to Cure your Blogging Addiction in 7 Easy Steps

Blogging has made a huge impact in many peoples lives over the past few years - just look at the Technorati numbers to see blogs in the tens of millions, from all corners of the globe and by people of all walks of life.

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A Cure for Jet Lag

"Groggy fruit flies could lead to the perfect sleeping pill for time-zone hoppers" "The allure of such a pharmaceutical would be hard to resist: A traveler could simply pop a pill to increase his light sensitivity, essentially resetting his biological clock and allowing him to adapt instantly to a new time zone."

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CDC backs HIV test for all between 13-64

ATLANTA - All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested forHIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said HIV testing should become about as common as a cholesterol check.

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We think alike! This game is guaranteed to read your mind 98% of the time.

This is a freaky mind game that has a 98% accuracy rate, find out if you rate within the 98% of the world. I guess Google was right, they will come out with predictive search functions if something like this can work.

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Interactive Bionics Tour

Move your cursor over this patient to see some of the most futuristic bionics available now and some in clinical trials.

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Teacher Suspended for letting 50 Students use the same Blood-drawing tool!

"A science teacher was suspended for allowing students to use the same instrument to draw blood from their fingers as part of a class project, district officials said Tuesday." - The students are being tested for HIV & Hepatitis.

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Photo: Look Closely at the Contents of this Bag

After reading the comments, you'll think twice before you pick up just any bag of food product...

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