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Alcohol is a superlative social lubricant — an icebreaker on the rocks — as well as an inspiration for art and literature, an attitude-adjuster, and often just a pure sensory pleasure. It can...
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Welcome to Atlanta, Georgia. If you’re strolling along Peachtree Street, enjoying the zoo or the botanical garden, catching a Braves game at SunTrust Park, visiting CNN Center or the World of...
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Most dog and cat owners know they shouldn’t feed their pets things like chocolate, nuts, and salty snack foods, and may be aware that plants like tulips and azaleas can be toxic to the animals. In...
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It is old news that obesity is a major problem in this country today. An estimated 160 million Americans are either obese or overweight, or nearly 75% of adult men, more than 60% of adult women, and...
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Hollywood may be known for being socially progressive, but when it comes to equal pay for women, it’s still in the Dark Ages. In general in the U.S. today, according to a report called “The State...
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The fast food industry characterizes serving periods as “dayparts.” These are generally defined as breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, and late night. Breakfast is the only daypart that has seen...
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The ultimate authority on the biggest, smallest, longest, shortest, least, most, and sometimes just plain silliest things in the world has long been the volume that appears annually as Guinness World...
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According to the Department of Health and Human Services, most healthy adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise a week. However,...
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Calorie-restricted diets are something of a trend these days. This might mean consuming as little as 1,200 calories a day (the average in the U.S. is 2,745 for males, 1,833 for females). Tests have...
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Roger Ailes, the late, disgraced former chairman and CEO of Fox News — whose downfall was chronicled in the recent HBO mini-series “The Loudest Voice” and is the subject of a forthcoming movie...
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Nutritional supplements often get a bad rap from doctors and nutritional scientists, but a new study — the largest evidence-based review of the subject ever undertaken — suggests that, if nothing...
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More than 820 million people around the world — just over 11% of the global population — suffer from hunger, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At the same...
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A New York City doctor and professor of medicine, writing on the political website The Hill, has warned that a once-dreaded medieval disease — leprosy — might soon start affecting America’s...
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A part of Hawaiian culture for centuries, the hula is a sinuous dance involving rhythmic movement of the hips and imitative hand gestures — noticeably different, in its authentic form, from the...
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A 43-year-old Indonesian man is walking 435 miles, from his home in East Java to the capital of Jakarta — backwards. Covering about 12 to 19 miles a day, with a rear-view mirror attached to his...
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