As serious as a heart attack
Most people who pay attention to their diets know that partially hydrogenated oil contains trans fat that clogs the arteries and reduces the "good" cholesterol that helps unclog them. Beginning next
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Alaska's changing landscape
They stood and gawked at the great blue mass of shrinking ice. Behold: a frozen landscape giving it up to a midnight sunset. The scene at the receding edge of the Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords
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Court sides with Bush on Clear Air Act ruling
A U.S. appeals court has sided with the administration of President George W. Bush, upholding its revisions of the Clean Air Act to allow plant operators to modernize without installing expensive new
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Four ways to fix America's failure on Africa
At a time when Africa could achieve so much success in escaping poverty, America's strategy for helping the continent is in a shambles. The head of President George W. Bush's Millennium Challenge
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Prescription for Africa
The infectious diseases and high rates of infant and maternal mortality that cast such a shadow over the future of Africa will never be prevented or treated successfully as long as the continent
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EU to cut sugar prices in subsidy overhaul
The heavily protected European sugar industry looks set for wide-ranging job cuts and a big drop in production after the European Commission announced an unprecedented overhaul of its sugar subsidy
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Navigating journey of genome to medicine
When the human genome was sequenced two years ago, researchers held the blueprint of a human being in their hands - a nonsensical string of three billion DNA letters. But the project's promise of
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Avian flu fears heightened in China
A World Health Organization official said on Wednesday that China is working to isolate outbreaks of avian flu in the west of the country and investigating claims that Chinese farmers misused human
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Pearl delta devastated by pollution, study says
The Pearl River Delta in China is so polluted that the fish that once thrived there are almost all gone, state media said. Ninety-five percent of the area examined was
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Siam Cement to curb petrochemical output
Siam Cement, Thailand's largest industrial group, said that it planned to cut output at its petrochemical plants in Rayong province by about 40 percent because of a water shortage prompted by the