A 2009 Black Friday listing for JC Penney, which opened local stores at 4 a.m. with 619 products on sale. The piece catalogues prices across automotive, children's clothing, bedding and apparel; whether the deals also ran online was not known.
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Bestbuy black friday 2009
A rundown of Best Buy's 2009 Black Friday hours and doorbuster deals, including $9.99 Blu-rays and DVD sets, $49.99 digital cameras, free phones on contract and discounted HDTVs. Stores opened at 5 a.m., with online sales starting at 1 a.m. EST on Thanksgiving Day.
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Walmart Black Friday deals
A roundup of Walmart's Black Friday electronics prices, including a 32-inch Emerson LCD HDTV at $248 and a 46-inch Sony Bravia at $798, noting the sale runs 5 to 11 a.m. and quantities are limited.
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President Obama Pardons Turkey
The White House announced that President Obama would pardon the Thanksgiving turkey in the Rose Garden at 11:28 a.m. EST on November 25, 2009, streamed live on WhiteHouse.gov, and ran a mock-dramatic preview video narrating the bird's walk to clemency.
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What are some fun facts about Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving trivia, from the 1621 harvest feast through Lincoln's 1863 proclamation and Roosevelt's fixing of the fourth Thursday: 250 million turkeys raised in 2009, 709 million pounds of cranberries forecast, and the US towns named Turkey and Cranberry.
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Belgian Man Discovered to be Cognizant
Ron Houben was thought to be in a vegetative state for 25 years after a 1983 car crash, until brain scans showed regions lighting up normally when he was asked questions. Dr. Steve Laurys and colleagues say many brain-injured patients are misdiagnosed and never followed up.
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'Spoonful of Sugar' Makes The Worms' Lifespan Go Down
Adding a small amount of glucose to the usual bacterial diet of C. elegans cut the worms' lifespan by about 20 percent, researchers report in Cell Metabolism. They trace the effect to insulin signals, which can block other life-extending molecules.
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Why Canned Soups Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
Consumer Reports tested 19 name-brand canned foods and found BPA in nearly all of them, including organic products and some cans labeled BPA-free. It estimates that a couple of servings of canned food can exceed the daily exposure limit for children.
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Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants
Alabama researchers writing in the FASEB Journal suggest antioxidants, the same substances found in plant foods, might keep flu virus from damaging the lungs. Co-author Sadis Matalon says they may prove beneficial in treating flu.
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Superstar CBS Reporter Blows the Lid Off the Swine Flu Media Hype and Hysteria
Mercola interviews CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson about her network's finding that H1N1 cases were far less common than feared, and about the tips she received that the CDC had told public health bodies to stop testing for and counting swine flu cases.
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Deaths lead to massive crib recall
Stork Craft is recalling more than 2 million drop-side cribs in the U.S. and Canada after four suffocation deaths and 110 reported accidents. Regulators tell parents to stop using them and ask the maker for a free repair kit.
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Food Safety Tips for Healthy Holidays
FDA's holiday guidance notes foodborne illness usually passes within hours or days in healthy people but can be severe for older adults, infants, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. Consumer educator Marjorie Davidson lays out four basic steps, starting with cleaning.
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Infant deaths trigger massive crib recall
The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled more than 2 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs after 110 reports of the drop side detaching, 15 entrapments and 20 falls. Four entrapments suffocated infants aged 6 to 9 months. Owners should stop using them and request a free repair kit.
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"Take Your Medicine" Kids Brochures Embarrass British Health Service
Britain's NHS asked activist Ben Hansen to take its children's leaflets on Zyprexa, Risperdal and Strattera off his Bonkers Institute site, saying they were meant to support counselling rather than stand alone. Hansen refused and posted the NHS letter alongside them.
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Daycare may double TV time for young children, study finds (PR)
Researchers observed 168 child care programs in four states and found preschoolers in home-based daycare watched 2.4 hours of television a day on average, against 0.4 hours in center-based programs. It is the first look at screen time in child care in more than 20 years.
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Thanksgiving 2009: Some Basics
Thanksgiving fell on November 26 in 2009. The annual observance began in 1863 and became a federal holiday in 1941. The first celebration brought together 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians and featured duck, goose, venison, fish, lobster and clams rather than today's turkey and cranberries.
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Search dysfunction noticed on eBay site
eBay's search returned erroneous results through much of a Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported, with the company blaming errors in back-end systems. Searches for terms such as iPod failed outright, and a spokesman promised full service by Sunday.
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North Carolina girl Shaniya Davis dies of asphyxiation
An autopsy found that five-year-old Shaniya Davis, whose body was discovered in woods near a North Carolina highway, died of asphyxiation and had been raped, the Fayetteville police chief said. The finding brought additional charges against Mario Andrette McNeill.
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