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Pizza is America’s favorite food. According to a survey conducted last year by The Harris Poll for the California Pizza Kitchen chain, some 21% of the 2,000-plus American diners questioned named...
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“There’s a great future in plastics,” Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke) told young Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) in “The Graduate,” in one of the most often-quoted exchanges in 20th-century movies....
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Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) — a widely prescribed group of medications that combat heartburn, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), and ulcers — are the most widely prescribed class of drugs...
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Prices for dozens of popular prescription drugs increased, sometimes doubling in cost, over the five-year period from 2012 to 2017, according to a new study published on the American Medical...
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The most sought-after wine in the world for the past 20 years is Château Lafite-Rothschild (average current vintage list price $933 a bottle), a world-renowned red Bordeaux officially classified as...
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There are three main facets to the typical restaurant experience: Ambiance, meaning the overall feeling of the place. This is shaped by numerous elements, including interior design, seating comfort,...
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A researcher at the University of Arizona, working in collaboration with other scientists across the country and in Canada, has been developing new technology that might mean diabetics will no longer...
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Air pollution stings our eyes, burns our lungs, and turns our skies murky brown or yellow. It is also responsible for the early deaths of some seven million people every year — almost one every...
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The best region of the world to be a woman? Scandinavia. The worst? Central Africa. That’s the takeaway from a study just released by Equal Measures 2030, a U.K.-based NGO that collects data on...
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Overall college enrollment has been declining in America, and that trend has continued last year, according to data just released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit...
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American cooking is as diverse as America itself. Scores and scores of different nationalities, over recent centuries, have populated our country and enriched it with their cultures, languages,...
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The Smirnoff Saints? The Johnnie Walker Jets? Maybe not, but it’s about to become easier for all 32 NFL teams to form sponsorship alliances with wine and spirits companies, and for players to...
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Most people probably prefer to avoid going to the hospital if possible. It’s a choice of last resort, when we’re too sick for the doctor’s office, or need sophisticated tests or serious...
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A surprising number of the homeless in America are full-time students, mostly under the age of 18, forced to balance the difficulties of daily existence on the streets with the challenges of...
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