Where to go for healthy holiday shopping

It’s that time of year to make your list, check it twice — and hit the stores. Happily, some retailers today realize that shoppers want a healthy experience as well as bargains. Here’s a look at America’s healthiest shopping spots.
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Where to go for a healthy shopping experience

It’s that time of year to make your list, check it twice — and hit the stores. Happily, some retailers today realize that shoppers want a healthy experience as well as bargains. Here’s a look at America’s healthiest shopping spots.
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Alzheimer’s Update: New Insight May Speed Therapies (preview)

Kassie Rose, 30 years old, faces a frightening prospect: if a genetic coin toss fails to go her way, she could lose her mind within a decade or two. A mutation that causes Alz­heimer’s disease runs in her family, the DeMoes of North Dakota. The odds of any DeMoe harboring the mutation are 50–50, and [...]

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The Hajj: A perfect storm for swine flu?

Forget stampedes, fires and terrorist attacks. The big fear this year concerning the Hajj, the annual millions-strong pilgrimage to Mecca, is swine flu.
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U.N. report: New HIV infections decreasing

New HIV infections have been reduced by 17 percent over the past eight years, a U.N. report said Tuesday.
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Darwin’s Influence on Modern Thought (preview)

Editor’s Note: This story, originally published in the July 2000 issue of Scientific American , is being made available due to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species
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Darwin’s Influence on Modern Thought

Editor’s Note: This story, originally published in the July 2000 issue of Scientific American , is being made available due to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species
Clearly, our conception of the world and our place in it is, at the beginning of [...]

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‘Coma’ man was really awake for 23 years

A Belgian car crash victim who was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years was conscious the whole time, it has emerged.
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Vegetable-inspired creativity for Thanksgiving

Going vegetarian on Thanksgiving doesn’t mean molding tofu into faux poultry or shaping legumes into meat-like blobs. Here are some mouth-watering ideas from iReporters.
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10 surprising facts about cholesterol

Elevated blood cholesterol is bad news. Thirty-four million Americans have levels that can increase their risk of all sorts of health problems. But if you think you’ve heard everything you need to know about this waxy fat, there may be a few surprises in store.
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