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Jeans in the fridge? Joy Bauer on your diet tips

Joy Bauer gives out a lot of diet advice. But recently, she turned the tables, and asked you to share your most creative weight loss strategies. Here are the top tips from viewers.

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Letter To The Editor: Spoofed Coal Company Making Up Facts

After being the victim of a fake website, coal giant Peabody Energy responded with some "interesting" stats about the benefits of energy use. Yesterday the world's largest privately held coal company, Peabody Coal , was hoaxed by Coal Cares , a Yes Men -sponsored website that promised free inhalers for children with asthma from coal plants. As has become typical with these things, the hoax was revealed and the company issued a statement denying any connection to the satirical site.

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Video: Counterfeit drugs ongoing global problem

The production and sale of counterfeit drugs is a growing problem around the world. Susan Koeppen reports on an investigation into counterfeit drugs and what consumers should avoid when buying prescription drugs.

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A galactic growth spurt

A simulation of galactic growth shows how a galaxy akin to our own Milky Way might have appeared 10 billion years ago.

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The Lost Galaxies (preview)

I have always been startled and fascinated by the sandlike abundance of galaxies sprinkled across the night sky. The most sensitive optical image ever made by human beings, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, captures some 10,000 galaxies in an area about 1/100th the size of the full moon

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Golfers, family gather for Ballesteros funeral

With the sound of a bagpipe filling the air, some of Europe's greatest golfers joined family, friends and local residents Wednesday for the funeral of Seve Ballesteros in his native fishing village in northern Spain.

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Terms of Engulfment: "Changes in the Skies" Alter and Raise Concerns about the Longevity of Pacific Island Languages

Global warming is altering--and threatening to erase--much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S. It is changing the vocabulary and heightening the risk of extinguishing the language and culture of daily life. Locals already have integrated the phrases "climate change" and "seawall" into the nation's two predominant dialects of the Marshallese language, which is unique to this archipelagic country.

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What is the Human Genome Worth?

By Nadia Drake of Nature magazine A high-profile claim that the Human Genome Project and associated research generated almost US$800 billion in economic benefits has been questioned by economists. The estimate comes from the Battelle Memorial Institute, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio

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U.S. nuclear plants to step up emergency plans: INPO

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. nuclear plants are not in full compliance with rules set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States to respond to explosions and fires, a self-regulatory body for the nuclear industry has found. [More]

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Ads Convince Consumers Of Nonexistent Experiences

One way advertisers convince us to buy something is to remind us that we’ve enjoyed their product before. Unfortunately, we can have fond memories of a product that we’ve never even had. Or that doesn’t even exist

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