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Alzheimer’s hits blacks, Hispanics hardest
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African Americans and American Hispanics are much more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than U.S. Caucasians, according to a special report from the Alzheimer’s Association.
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Washington, D.C. pushes female condoms
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Women who have been slow to use female condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS are getting help from Washington, D.C., which has begun distributing 500,000 free condoms throughout the city.
Environment
It’s work, work, work for these elephants
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There is no TGIF for the 700 captive elephants of Kerala, India. If it isn’t yet another political campaign parade, it’s a trade fair. If not that, then another temple festival. They walk with fireworks blasting, drunkards reeling. They travel in open-air vehicles and stand in the scorching sun.
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Psychedelic conference set for California
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A Santa Cruz, Calif.-based non-profit organization has announced plans for a three-day mid-April conference on “Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century.”
Democracy & Civics
For news junkies, an expanding universe
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The Internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and radio.
Environment
Darwin saw Chile’s earthquake coming
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Among the people who saw the effects of an earthquake as big as the Chilean quake of Feb. 27 was none other than Charles Darwin.
Environment
Pelicans dying off the U.S. West Coast
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For the second straight year, the much-loved California Brown Pelican population is experiencing a mystifying die-off.
Environment
Annie get yer gun: We’re goin’ campin’!
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As of now, it is perfectly A-OK to pack loaded, concealed guns into most U.S. National Parks and Wildlife Refuges. Congress said so. President Obama concurred.
Environment
Don’t blame it on El Niño; the PDO is a factor, too
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The warm temperatures that are playing havoc with the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. have less to do with El Niño than a little-recognized weather phenomenon called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
Environment
Dead microbes could save the Winter Olympics
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Crews battling warm temperatures and lack of snow at Winter Olympic venues near Vancouver, B.C. are turning to a harmless plant pathogen to help create snow and save what little snow and ice they have.