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Talking Points: New Titanic, smartphones in the Pentagon, student loan burden
Talking Points
Published: Tue, Feb 26, 2013
Where can I go to see the Titanic? Though the original ship remains on the bottom of the Atlantic after sinking in 1912, a replica is being constructed by billionaire Clive Palmer. The new vessel will have copies of the rooms and even the smokestacks from the original design but will sport...
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Talking Points: New heart study, dead defendant, jellyfish invasion
Talking Points
Published: Mon, Feb 25, 2013
How can you lower your heart attack risk without losing weight? A new and very rigorous study shows that a Mediterranean diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, fish and olive oil can lower the risk of stroke and other serious heart trouble by 30 percent. The improvement was not linked...
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Talking Points: Washington's library; interview with Mitt Romney; censured essayist
Naomi Jagoda
Updated: Sun, Feb 24, 2013
What libido-boosting treatment may help prevent diabetes? Scientists in Australia are studying whether testosterone, which is known to increase men's sex drive and musculature, can help prevent a form of diabetes that tends to strike later in life and afflicts more than 330 million people...
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Talking Points: Most miserable U.S. city, cuter than the Oscars, woman tries out for NFL
Kate Jacobson
Published: Sat, Feb 23, 2013
What's the most miserable city in the U.S.? That would be Detroit. In a new list released by Forbes, the Motor City nabbed the top spot of the worst cities in the United States. The second metro area on that list is also in Michigan, the city of Flint just an hour north of Detroit. Forbes...
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Talking Points: North Korea's largest bomb, California's wine market, passengers and DUIs
Talking Points
Published: Thu, Feb 21, 2013
Does North Korea have a nuclear weapon? The insular nation just completed an underground test of a 6-kiloton nuclear device, the equivalent of 66,000 tons of TNT. The device was barely half the size of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but it is by far the largest bomb North Korea has...
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Talking Points: Used oysters, illegal GPS?, chromosomal sniffles
Talking Points
Published: Tue, Feb 19, 2013
How might restaurants begin to help raise baby oysters? Under a new bill before Maryland lawmakers, restaurants would get a dollar-per-bushel tax credit for recycling oyster shells -- a shift that could help restore the region's oyster beds. Young oysters raised in hatcheries prefer to attach...
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Talking Points: Rotten eggs for health, Israeli ice cream contract, China rail in Iran
Talking Points
Published: Mon, Feb 18, 2013
Can rotten eggs help you stay healthy? Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive smell, may slow aging and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, Chinese scientists have found. The compound activates a gene implicated in longevity in a similar way to...
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Talking Points: Vandal bunnies, hero pitbull, Harlem Shake
Talking Points
Updated: Sat, Feb 16, 2013
What's happening to cars at the Denver Airport? Did a pitbull save its human family from death? What is the 'Harlem Shake'?
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Talking Points: C+ could equal $1 million, public enemy No. 1, overwhelmed IRS website
Talking Points
Published: Thu, Feb 14, 2013
When does a C+ equal $1 million? According to a Pennsylvania graduate student, when her C+ kept her from getting her desired degree and becoming a licensed therapist. Graduate student Megan Thode has sued her professor and Lehigh University, seeking a grade change and $1.3 million. Teacher...
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Talking Points: Valentine facts, papal retirement home, pricey tomatoes
Talking Points
Published: Wed, Feb 13, 2013
How big a deal is Valentine's Day? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans bought some $13.5 billion in chocolate and cocoa products and imported $365,453,189 in cut roses in 2011, the latest year for which data areavailable. Thhese are annual figures,but a lot of that was spent...
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