Sunday, December 2, 2007

Evel Knievel, Motorcycle Daredevil, Dies at Age 69 (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Evel Knievel, the daredevil motorcycle stuntman who made sensational jumps over cars and double-decker buses in the 1970s and broke dozens of bones in even more sensational crashes, has died. He was 69.

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Ohioans make Tucson stop on cycling journey (Arizona Daily Star)

Hap Eaton and his wife, Diane, are riding a yellow tandem bike 10,000 miles from their home in Centerville, Ohio, to the West Coast, through Tucson and back again.

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Wheat's the problem! (Hindustan Times via Yahoo! India News)

LAST WEEK, 11-year-old Robin Mehta was diagnosed with celiac disease, a genetic auto-immune disorder. He was told that his body was intolerant to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley, and he couldn't eat pizzas and burgers anymore.

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Match for life (Boston Globe)

Edson Rafferty's posting has all the elements of a personal ad. The 64-year-old Canton father and grandfather doesn't drink, smoke, use drugs, or eat high-cholesterol foods. He likes to travel and spend time with his family. And a piece of essential information: His blood type is O positive.

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Saturday, December 1, 2007

Heart Help (Aspen Daily News)

Few members of the general population can say they've been to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro or El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. That figure has to be put under a microscope for those who are heart transplant recipients and can say the same.

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Gene BRCA1: Three sisters go in for mastectomies (Whidbey News-Times)

Cancer is at once non-discriminating and calculatingly vindictive, especially in the eyes of victims who have watched the disease wickedly morph from miraculous remission into a metastasized death warrant.

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Friday, November 30, 2007

'Super mouse' offers hope for cancer treatment (Contra Costa Times)

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- University of Kentucky researchers have developed a cancer-resistant mouse with a gene that they hope might one day help provide treatments to supplement chemotherapy and radiation in humans.

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