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Watch Your food – What Chain-Food Favorites Cost in Exercise?

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: 2 June, 2009    257 views    (1) Comment

DietDetective.com: Charles Stuart Platkin, JD, MPH, is one of the country’s leading nutrition and public health advocates; his syndicated health, nutrition, and fitness column appears in more than 165 daily newspapers nationally, including the Buffalo News, the Honolulu Advertiser, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, The State, the Omaha World Herald, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Platkin is the host of WE tv’s new original series, I Want To Save Your Life. He is also the Read Full Article (Click here)...

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USA – New passport/New ID rules Monday – June 1, 2009 – for Mexico, Canada trips

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: , 30 May, 2009    374 views    (2) Comment

BLAINE, Wash. – New rules requiring passports or new high-tech documents to cross the United States’ northern and southern borders are taking effect Monday, as some rue the tightening of security and others hail it as long overdue. The rules are being implemented nearly eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks and long after the 9/11 Commission recommended the changes. They were delayed by complaints from state officials who worried the restrictions would hinder the flow of people and Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Internet Bandwidth – How Much is Enough?

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: 26 May, 2009    393 views    (0) Comment

What is bandwidth? Bandwidth refers to the amount of information that can be carried in a given time period (usually a second) over a wired or wireless communication link. In digital systems, bandwidth is expressed as bits per second (bps). For example, a modem that runs at 56,000 bps has twice the bandwidth of a modem that runs at 28,800 bps. The higher the bandwidth, the more data can be transferred in bits per second. A good analogy is to think of your Internet connection as a pipe. The Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Customers Rank Airlines, Post rare improvement in survey

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: 19 May, 2009    268 views    (1) Comment

MINNEAPOLIS – Airlines are doing a better job of taking care of the passengers they still have, according to a new study. Passenger satisfaction with airline service rose 3.2 percent earlier this year, the first increase in six years, according to a University of Michigan study to be released Tuesday. The increase came as the number of passengers dropped and airlines reduced flying. Also passengers checked fewer bags as luggage fees became more common, making it easier for airlines to keep Read Full Article (Click here)...

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Germany: Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world’s oldest

Posted by Jiltin     Tags: 14 May, 2009    160 views    (0) Comment

BERLIN – A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a busty woman found in a German cave was unveiled Wednesday by archaeologists who believe it is the oldest known sculpture of the human form. The carving found in six fragments in Germany’s Hohle Fels cave depicts a woman with a swollen belly, wide-set thighs and large, protruding breasts. “It’s very sexually charged,” said University of Tuebingen archaeologist Nicholas Conard, whose team discovered the figure in Read Full Article (Click here)...

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