New York City's requirement that fast-food restaurants post calorie counts on menus led one in six customers to notice the information and buy foods with fewer calories, according to new research released on Tuesday.
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Tom Watson was more interested in honoring a longtime relationship than competing in one of the biggest senior events of the year.
Read More »PGT: Coach says Tiger has not hit any golf balls
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Read More »U.S. cities face water-related climate change dangers: study
By Lauren Keiper BOSTON (Reuters) - Rising sea waters may threaten U.S. coastal cities later this century, while the Midwest and East Coast are at high risk for intense storms, and the West could see compromised water supplies
Read More »African land grab threatens food security: study
By Christine Stebbins CHICAGO (Reuters) - Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave rural populations there without land or jobs and make the continent's hunger problem more severe, an environmental think tank said on Tuesday. [More]
Read More »Turning Diamond-Edged Blades Into Fuel-Saving Plowshares
High-tech materials and farming may seem like an unlikely mix, but new research suggests diamond-edged plows could have serious environmental payoffs. German researchers have considered the ancient science and art of plowing, and have come up with a novel solution to reduce its environmental impact: Coating the metal blades of a plowshare with diamond-like carbon.
Read More »Kobo Thumbs Its Nose At Apple With An HTML5 E-reader App
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Read More »U.S. officials make major haul of elephant ivory
By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials seized roughly a ton of ivory in one of the largest U.S. seizures on record and arrested the owner of an African art store accused of smuggling carved elephant tusks into the United States, authorities said on Tuesday
Read More »One small step leads to 1 big boast
Two tournaments came down to the last hole and produced emotions as different as the tours themselves.
Read More »Butter knife bad bet for do-it-yourself hernia repair, California man learns
Sixty-three-year-old man held for psychiatric evaluation after unsuccessful bit at self-surgery for painful hernia
Read More »Water from a Saturnian Moon Rains Down on the Ringed Planet
Enceladus, a small satellite of Saturn, has captivated planetary scientists for years with its watery polar geysers and ridgelike surface features known as "tiger stripes." Now it has a new layer of intrigue. The gas and ice escaping from Enceladus and shooting out from the moon's south pole in towering jets, which fill Saturn's diffuse E ring, also seem to rain down on Saturn itself, providing water vapor to the giant planet's upper atmosphere
Read More »Rare Volcanoes Discovered On Far Side of the Moon
Shielded from Earth-bound eyes, the far side of the moon is home to a rare set of dormant volcanoes that changed the face of the lunar surface, a new study finds.
Read More »Is There a Link Between Creativity and Addiction?
A drink of alcohol , any kind; "rails" of white powder; a pill prescribed by a pediatrician to assist with attention deficit disorder.
Read More »Fundamental Physical Constants Get Updated Values
By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine As cheat sheets go, it is a long one. [More]
Read More »Phil didn’t mind Tiger’s dominance
PFT: Mickelson says that when Woods was king of golf, it "brought out my best game. He drove me to practice harder and work harder."
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