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There's no shortage of products and methods available right now promising to help Americans get in shape - bulky exercise equipment, fad diets, weight-loss programs. But how about playing a video game to shed those extra pounds?
Your thoughts: Do you think any video game can help you get in shape? - On the ground: Dig, dig, dig
- Q&A: Mission to Mars
The robot is set to touch down on the red planet just before 8 p.m. Sunday for a 90-day mission.
LOS ANGELES - Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the planet's north pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission.
- Chief said to favor limits on emissions but backed off.WASHINGTON - The head of the Environmental Protection Agency initially supported giving California and more than a dozen other states full or partial permission to limit tailpipe emissions but reversed himself after hearing from the White House, a report said yesterday.
- For a teenage veteran of Uganda's civil war, a $10,000 prosthetic arm means getting his life back.The doctor was telling the teenage war veteran from Uganda that he could alternate between two attachments to his new prosthetic arm: a hook or a hand.
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She has held the same tortured pose for more than 130 years, her face contorted, her mouth open wide in a scream. Bony hands press against her sides, and strands of strawberry-blond hair fall behind her.
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A Pennsylvania state representative grilled a senior Rohm & Haas Co. executive during a House committee hearing yesterday, accusing the chemical company of not doing enough to determine the cause of more than 15 brain tumors suffered by current and former employees.
- A new study suggests patients with low levels of the nutrient were likelier to die of the disease.Breast-cancer patients with low levels of Vitamin D were more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than were patients who got enough of the nutrient, researchers reported yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species yesterday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming.
- Does a pacemaker work properly? Check it regularly using wireless technology, and in the office at least once a year.People with implanted heart devices need closer follow-up care, an international panel of heart specialists recommended yesterday in the first guidelines for monitoring this rapidly growing group of patients.
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The doctor was telling the teenage war veteran from Uganda that he could alternate between two attachments to his new prosthetic arm: a hook or a hand.
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GreenSpace: Vampires stand by to suck your energy
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My husband's legs stuck out from under the computer desk, and I heard a quot;wow!" He couldn't believe the balls of dust. Or the energy we were wasting.
- His work took him to exotic locations, and he was deadly accurate with a firearm. His name was Bond. (Yes, James Bond.)
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Take another little piece of my heart now, baby. Marjorie Sprague kept playing those song lyrics in her mind, but not because she was lovelorn.
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When Joseph Boscarino returned from Vietnam in 1966, it seemed as if the war came home with him. Many of his fellow veterans in his New Jersey hometown battled drug problems and nightmares. Some committed suicide. He says his own twin brother, who went to war the following year, came back a changed person - debilitated by anxiety and delusions.
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Inquirer environmental reporter Sandy Bauers writes on how to live a more ecologically sensitive life.
Jane was nearly 40 years old when she came to see me for poor self-esteem. Despite her achievements, she never felt good about herself and was unable to sustain a relationship with a man.
Dealing with breast cancer is an ordeal too many women face. Sandra Long, Inquirer managing editor, tells her story, from diagnosis to drawing strength from faith and friends, in her blog, "In Sandra's Shoes."
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