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Federal Judge Blocks Law Requiring Graphic Photos on Cigarette Packs
In a 29-page decision on Monday, US District Judge Richard J. Leon blocked the implementation of a law on graphic cigarette photos. It would’ve required tobacco companies to include explicit photos detailing the dangers of smoking on cigarette packages.
The 36 images proposed by the Food and Drug Administration include a picture of diseased lungs next to healthy lungs, a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat, and a male cadaver with chest staples down his torso.
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End Of Daylight Saving Time Is Good for Your Health
Setting your clock back an hour early this Sunday morning may led to depressingly shorter days, but experts believe the end of daylight saving time is healthy in general.
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Keith Urban to Undergo Throat Surgery
Keith Urban has just announced that he will undergo throat surgery at the end of the month. The outpatient procedure is to remove a polyp on his vocal chords.
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Strange Excuses To Skip Work
We've all done it. With the best "sore throat sounding" voice we could muster, try to put on a Academy Award winning performance and call the boss acting sick. But can you top some of these silly excuses for missing work?
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Lauren Alaina Loses 25 Pounds
A lot has changed since 16-year-old Lauren Alaina first entered the ‘American Idol‘ race in early 2011. Not only is she now a country music staple with a debut album and a chart-topping single, but she has since shed her small town Georgia lifestyle — and with it, 25 pounds.
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Can a Pill Turn Sweat Into Perfume?
Feeling stinky, but don’t like to spritz? An artist in Amsterdam is working on a pill that, when taken, would release perfume with your sweat.
Lucy McRae calls her invention Swallowable Parfum and says she’s mainly trying to change the way people think, not the way they smell.
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Study Says Generation Xers Are Actually Happy
The members of Generation X are no longer the melancholy slackers they once thought to be, but are actually a well-balanced and happy group, according to a new report.
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Arizona Professor Banned from McDonald’s, Found Disease-Causing Bacteria [VIDEO]
A university professor in Arizona has been banned from eight McDonald’s restaurants in her area, after she found dangerous bacteria in the children’s play area.
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Pack The Place In Pink Tonight
Hopefully you have the pink shirt, pants, shoes, hat, and whatever else you can wear for tonight's "Pack The Place In Pink" event at Skyview High School.
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Pit Bull Wins ‘Neighbor of the Year’ Award For Saving Owner’s Life After Aneurysm [VIDEO]
One morning in July, John Benton’s pit bull Titan began acting strange, and wouldn’t let Benton leave the house to go to work.
Benton eventually followed the pooch’s lead to his upstairs bedroom where he found his wife Gloria, who had just suffered a brain aneurysm, laying on the floor and bleeding from a fractured skull.
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Woman Breaks Hip in Hospital Lobby, Told to Call 911
If you’re going to fall and hurt yourself, you might think a hospital lobby is a pretty lucky place to do it. After all, the building does house doctors and nurses who can tend to you right away.
That’s what 82-year-old Doreen Wallace thought. But she was wrong.