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Treadmill desk shows path to weight loss
Think work feels like a treadmill now? Try a new desk designed at the Mayo Clinic. They built what they called a "vertical workstation" - a desk fitted over a standard treadmill. They persuaded 15 obese people to work at this treadmill-desk and measured how many calories they burned. If an overweight office worker used this vertical workstation all day, every day for a year, he or she could lose up to 30 kg, the researchers report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. James Levine and Jennifer Miller measured how many calories their 15 volunteers burned using exhaled breath but did not determine if the volunteers lost weight.... |
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Shipwrecked treasure ship yields historic riches ($500M):
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/18/treasure.ship.ap/index.html |
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That Rosie Hymerling is not exhausted at the end of her kindergarten teaching day at Tatem Elementary is miraculous. Consider: In a recent span of seven hours, she did a somersault, jumped rope, wore a Cat in the Hat costume, broke into spontaneous song several times, donned a wig, gave dozens of kisses, held children on her lap, brokered peace treaties among fractious 5-year-olds, and listened to no fewer than four knock-knock jokes. Hymerling, 61, has been teaching for 40 years, 35 of them in Haddonfield. She is a legend in town, and news of her June retirement has touched off a flood of tributes - from a video to the first-ever Garden State Discovery Museum Achievement Award.
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Deep-Sea Explorers Haul Up $500 Million Treasure
It's a fantasy many of us have likely had at one point in our lives, but for deep-sea explorers who uncovered a vast hidden treasure recently, it became an awe-inspiring reality. Hundreds of thousands of colonial-era silver and gold coins worth an estimated $500 million were hauled from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean. "For this colonial era, I think (the find) is unprecedented," said rare coin expert Nick Bruyer. "I don't know of anything equal or comparable to it." Details about the ship haven't been released due to security concerns, but the company that found the treasure, Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration, is planning to make a formal announcement in the near future. Court records indicate the coins might have come from a 17th century merchant ship. The site is beyond the territorial waters or legal jurisdiction of any country, according to Odyssey Marine Exploration's co-founder Greg Stemm Related Links: Odyssey Marine Exploration Numismatic News Professional Numismatists Guild |
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It's undeniable: The buzz is louder this spring.
The hum we're talking about comes from rising discussion of the environment and what each of us can do to safeguard it. This call to action isn't new. In his book Ecocriticism, Greg Garrard credits Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (published in 1962) with introducing “modern environmentalism.” But Bernard Mergen's American Studies International journal review of Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema, notes that author David Ingram identifies more than 150 movies produced from the 1890s through the 1990s in which environmental issues play a significant role. Today the call is getting louder, as demonstrated by the growing Questia collection of books and articles on environmentalism. And at least some of the news is better, say Steve Brooks, Gerald Marten and Amanda Suutari. In their World Watch piece “Environmental Tipping Points: A New Slant on Strategic Environmentalism", they explain how small positive changes can make a big difference in promoting "co-adaptation, helping societies and ecosystems fit together sustainably." If you're feeling the buzz, visit TryScience's Citizens for Planet Earth pages and World Resources Institute's EarthTrends environmental information to learn what you can do to help. Then put your knowledge to work by checking out the ecotourism opportunities in the Conde Nast Traveler Green List. |
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Wrong thread , should in the books one
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There is more than one reason that MacKinzie Kline has been generating headlines in the United States lately. The most obvious of them is that she suffers from an incurable heart defect that means she may not live to see her 30th birthday, and yet she has managed to work her way on to the women's professional golf circuit at the tender age of 15. That might be enough to grab anybody's attention. What makes this girl really compelling, though, to both newspaper columnists and the high-profile golfers who have taken her under their wing, is that she doesn't play the victim very well. In fact, for someone who needs a constant supply of oxygen and tires easily, she is both charming and determined.
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A Cure for Hepatitis C
22 May 2007 Science Daily News: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070521155314.htm |
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