Tag: north carolina
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Sun Exposure Lowers Cancer Risk
A study that correlated exposure to sunlight with cancer risk found that people exposed to more sunlight had a significantly lower risk of many types of cancer (Lin, 2012).
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#PopOcculture: Drowning In the Waves
#TitanicMemes: Human Remains Possibly Found in #Titanic Shipwreck* PDF: Women More Likely to Die in Ship Disasters than Men* Video: San Francisco Yacht Accident – Coast Guard Calls Off Search […]
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#BingeAndPurge: Pink Slime, Satire, Coconut Cottage and more
Pink Slime for School Lunch: Government Buying 7M Pounds of Ammonia-Treated Meat for Meals* Campaign Against BPI’s ‘Pink Slime’* Campbell’s Soup Phasing Out BPA Use in Cans* Disney retooling childhood […]
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State Agent Inspects Bag Lunches, Makes Kids Eat Cafeteria Food
A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.
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asheville, nc food trucks prepping downtown parking lot
from citizen-times: One of the city’s newest culinary trends could be rolling into downtown by the end of the month. Food trucks that were banned from downtown for more than […]
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Blue Plastic Chips Found In Ground Beef
A North Carolina-based company has issued a recall of its ground beef product after a consumer found an unexpected ingredient in the product – blue plastic chips.
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8/18 Binge & Purge: Profit, Problems & Poop
Video: Somalia, famine-for-profit & East-African food crisis // Arizona among worst states for family food hardship // Expert says GMO to blame for problems in Colorado plants, animals // Hepatitis a shot class action filed against N. Carolina olive garden // Suit filed against Cargill on behalf of Oregon child // Lab tests confirm e. coli from deer poop in Oregon strawberry fields
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food banks across the country hit by hunger, thieves
salvation army’s food pantry almost empty from rocky mount telegram: Food is in short supply at the area’s Salvation Army pantries. For the first time in a long time, local […]
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heat, cold, flooding, drought greet US on summer solstice
from mcclatchy: A year ago the headline was “It’s hot, hot, hot on the summer solstice.” This year the solstice weather is much more confused. You have drought in Mississippi, […]
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‘exercise mailed fist’: largest ever marine corps drill on US east coast
multiple foreign armies involved in massive drill* from cnn: It’s mid-June, a perfect time to visit the beach to watch porpoises play in the surf or seagulls strut the sand […]
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fbi agents get ‘leeway’ to push privacy bounds
fbi power to snoop expanded (again) from nytimes: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, […]
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epa helps mainstream media obscure truth about radiation exposure
govt responds to nuclear accident by trying to raise acceptable radiation levels & pretending that radiation is good for us… from activist post: As Americans focus on March Madness and […]
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amid march madness, some christians decry sports worship
from beliefblog: Believe it or not, there are Duke University students who were fired up Friday morning, even though their Blue Devils lost to Arizona Thursday night in the NCAA […]
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Mexican Cartel’s Founding Members Trained At Fort Bragg
The US military may have inadvertently taught one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels advanced military tactics, an al-Jazeera investigation alleges.