A Mercola list of claims drawn from Business Insider about China, among them ten New York-sized cities by 2025, steel consumption twice that of the U.S., Europe and Japan combined, more executions than the rest of the world together, and 274 protests a day.
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Rep. Randy Neugebauer Owns Controversial Comment
Rep. Randy Neugebauer admitted shouting “baby killer!” while Rep. Bart Stupak spoke on abortion funding in the health care bill, and apologised, saying he meant the bill rather than Stupak. Commentators are comparing the outburst to Joe Wilson's “you lie!”
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CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth dies of colon cancer
CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth died on March 21 at 59, three years after a colon cancer diagnosis. Born Margaret Wilson in New Zealand, she covered war zones and returned to the front lines after being shot in the face by a sniper in 1993.
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Dental Association Forces Disabled to Get Toxic Fillings
Dr. Mercola reports that the Pennsylvania Dental Association and the Philadelphia County Dental Society backed dentists who refuse all treatment to disabled children unless parents consent to mercury fillings, which he says breaks three rights in the PDA's own patient bill of rights.
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How do I prepare for a tornado?
Practical tornado preparation: run drills each season, designate a shelter, learn the difference between a watch and a warning, build a supplies kit and name an out-of-state family contact. Danger signs include greenish sky, large hail, a rotating low cloud and a freight-train roar.
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Ex Shark Hunter Turns to Animal Protection - An interview
An interview with activist Steve Hindi, who recounts staging inflatable-orca protest shows outside the Shedd Aquarium in 1992 after two white whales died following injection of a parasite drug unapproved for whales, and his 1997 conviction for disrupting a hunt in McHenry County.
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Stay Safe During Poison Prevention Week
Marking Poison Prevention Week, CDC reports 27,531 US deaths from unintentional poisoning in 2006 and 732,316 emergency department visits in 2008. Drugs cause 96% of the deaths, more than half of those prescription medicines, and about 71,000 children a year are treated for medication poisoning.
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What is the vernal equinox?
Seasons follow the tilt of Earth's axis against its orbit: tropical regions divide the year by rainfall, temperate and polar ones by sunlight. At the spring equinox, usually March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun stands over the equator and daylight lasts 12 hours.
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1.7 million traumatic brain injuries occur in the US each year
A CDC report using 2002-2006 data estimates 1.7 million traumatic brain injuries a year in the US, including 52,000 deaths. Falls cause 35.2 percent of cases, mostly among children under 5 and adults over 75; road traffic injuries cause 17.3 percent but 31.8 percent of the deaths.
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Are You Ready for the iPad? It’s Almost Here
Apple's iPad drew more than 91,000 pre-orders in six hours and about 150,000 by the weekend, mostly WiFi-only models, generating over $75 million. The piece walks through the Safari browser, split-screen email, 9.7-inch screen and 10-hour battery ahead of the April 3 release.
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Bacteria left on crime scene may help find criminal
Noah Fierer's team sampled 270 people's hands, found about 100 bacterial species on each, and matched colonies on computer mice to their owners' hands 70 to 90 percent of the time. That is not accurate enough for forensic use yet, and contamination remains a problem.
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Daylight savings time 2010 or time change spring 2010
Clocks move ahead an hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time and go back at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 7, 2010. Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands do not observe it.
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What should I do if someone is poisoned?
Call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222 in a poisoning emergency, or 911 if the victim has collapsed or is not breathing. Have the victim's age and weight, the container, the time of exposure and the address ready, and stay on the line for instructions.
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Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning Prevention
More than 400 people die each year in the US from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, often from generators, stoves and other fuel-burning gear used indoors during power outages. Symptoms include headache, dizziness, nausea and confusion; test detector batteries yearly.
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Genetic Testing for Hereditary Colorectal Cancer
About 3% of colorectal cancer cases trace to Lynch syndrome. The EGAPP Working Group recommends offering counseling and genetic testing information to everyone newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Children and siblings of carriers have a 50% chance of inheriting it.
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Protect Your Kidneys by Controlling Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
Diabetes and high blood pressure are common causes of chronic kidney disease, which advances slowly with few symptoms - most of the 26 million U.S. adults who had it in 2000 did not know. CDC urges people with either condition to get tested and to control blood sugar and blood pressure.
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When is daylight savings time 2010?
Clocks move ahead one hour at 2 a.m. under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which since 2007 has run daylight savings time from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. Arizona, Hawaii and five U.S. territories opt out; about 70 countries observe it.
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Turn Clocks Forward March 14
Since 2007, U.S. daylight time has run from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Hawaii and most of Arizona skip it. The piece lists start and end dates through 2015 and traces the law back to 1918.
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