A 2007 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration roadside survey found 2.2 percent of drivers on a weeknight were over the legal limit, down from 7.5 percent in 1973. Between 1 and 3 a.m. the share rose to 4.8 percent. Interviewers were not police and paid volunteers for samples.
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Half of all bathtub injuries involve toddlers
A national survey analyzed by Columbia Children's Hospital found most toddler bathtub injuries happen with a parent present, and about 43,000 toddlers a year are hurt. Cuts accounted for 60 percent of injuries and sprains or soft tissue damage for 50 percent.
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Women with Greater Language Skills in their Twenties Less Likely to Develop Alzheimer’s
A Johns Hopkins study in the ongoing Nun Study confirms a 1996 finding that nuns who wrote complex sentences in their twenties were less likely to develop dementia. One group carried the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's without memory loss, suggesting a protective mechanism.
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Think You'll Marry After 40? Buy a Lottery Ticket
A humor column riffs on the odds that single women over 40 will marry, comparing the statistics to terrorism and plane crashes and poking at prenuptials, single motherhood and the lingering sting of the phrase old maid.
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Ice-free Arctic summer on the horizon?
NASA satellite data show Arctic sea ice thinned about 7 inches a year between the winters of 2004 and 2008, 2.2 feet in all, while the area of older, thicker ice shrank 42 percent. A separate report puts twice as much carbon in Arctic and boreal permafrost as in the atmosphere.
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Would You Eat "Dove"? Neither Do Most Dove Hunters
A caustic look at Governor Mark Sanford's Argentine dove-shooting trip and the Cordoba lodges advertising no bag limits, quoting hunters who boast of downing more than 1,000 birds in a day, and noting most states offer youth dove hunts for children as young as 8.
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Fireworks-Related Injuries: What you need to know
An estimated 9,800 people were treated in US emergency departments for fireworks injuries in 2007 and eleven died, with more than half of the injured being children, CDC reports. The safest prevention is leaving displays to trained professionals. Advice on keeping pets calm opens the piece.
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New Study Reveals Surprising Cause of Risky Behavior in Teens
A six-year study of 20,000 teenagers found those who expect to die young take more risks than those who expect long lives, reversing the usual assumption that teens feel invincible. One in five 15- and 16-year-olds expected to die before 20; the real rate is about one in 250.
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Cancer stem cells may revolutionize the cancer fight
University of Rochester researchers write in Science that cancer stem cells, a subtype that resists current treatments, may be the root of tumors, and that targeting them rather than killing all cells could improve on conventional therapy.
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June 27 is the Annual National HIV Testing Day
The 16th annual observance promotes HIV testing as routine care for people aged 13 to 64, yearly testing for men who have sex with men and others at high risk, and early testing in pregnancy. The CDC estimated 1,106,400 Americans were living with HIV at the end of 2006.
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Michael Jackson dies from cardiac arrest
Michael Jackson, 50, collapsed at a rental home in Holmby Hills and was pronounced dead at UCLA Medical Center about 2:26 pm after more than an hour of resuscitation attempts. The cause of death was unknown, the coroner took the case, and an autopsy was set for June 26, 2009.
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How green is your wedding?
Mireya Navarro's book Green Wedding sets out how to shrink a wedding's carbon footprint. With more than 2.5 million U.S. weddings a year costing $72 billion, she urges local, seasonal, pesticide-free and meatless menus, e-vites instead of paper, and shorter guest travel.
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AIDS Foundation to hold protest against porn industry
Los Angeles County health officials say 22 porn performers have tested positive for HIV in five years. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation will rally June 15 outside Larry Flynt's Hustler store in West Hollywood, pressing California legislators to require condoms in adult films.
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Kansas abortion doctor shot and killed
A suspect is in custody after Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider, was shot in the lobby of his Wichita church. Witnesses gave police his car's license number. Tiller's clinic was bombed in 1986 and he was shot and wounded in 1993.
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Pregnancy and weight gain
With nearly two-thirds of US women of childbearing age overweight or obese, the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council issued new guidelines advising obese women, those with a BMI over 30, to limit pregnancy weight gain to 11 to 20 pounds.
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13-year-old Hauser back home for cancer treatment
Daniel Hauser, 13, and his mother flew home to New Ulm, Minnesota at 3 a.m. Monday after fleeing court-ordered chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma. The court holds legal custody, arrest warrants are to be lifted, and their attorney says his mother will abide by the court.
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Health - Happiness Link found
A University of Kansas and Gallup World Poll study of more than 150,000 adults in over 140 countries found positive emotions tracked with better physical health even among people whose basic needs were unmet. Ireland ranked most optimistic; the United States came 10th.
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Industry changing credit card bill passes the House
A credit card bill passed the House 90-5. It would make applicants under 21 prove they can repay or find a co-signer, bar rate increases until a payment is 60 days late, hold promotional rates for six months and end fees for online and phone transactions.
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