A Black Friday shopping post advertising the HP G60-506US laptop at Staples for $299.98, down from a $599.98 regular price, with the machine's specifications and an offer expiry of 11/27/2009.
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Staples black Friday internet sales
A rundown of Staples' 2009 Black Friday offers, about 135 products with most also sold online, listing prices for laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, memory cards and office supplies.
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Walmart Black Friday Deals
A rundown of Walmart's 2009 Black Friday sale: about 550 advertised deals across most departments, store hours of 5 to 11 a.m., and a $198 eMachines laptop offered as one of the doorbusters, with a note that stock varies by location.
Miscellaneous
NY Times Blows The Whistle On Drug Industry's Dirty Tricks
Mercola relays New York Times reporting that lobbyists for Genentech ghostwrote statements inserted into the Congressional Record by more than a dozen lawmakers after the House health care vote, with one draft prepared for Democrats and another for Republicans.
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Swine Flu Vaccine: Physicians' Rejection of the Injection
Some pediatricians refuse to give H1N1 shots or nasal spray, telling reporters the virus is over-hyped and the vaccine was not tested long enough. They say they generally support vaccination but object to colleagues calling this shot completely safe without studies to point to.
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JC Penny Black Friday Deals 2009
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.
Disease
ADHD risks increase in children exposed to lead and cigarette smoke
Children exposed to both lead and prenatal tobacco smoke had eight times the ADHD risk of unexposed children in a Cincinnati Children's Hospital study. Smoke alone raised risk 2.4-fold and top-third blood lead 2.3-fold; removing both might cut up to 35 percent of cases.
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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.
Healthcare
US women want to start mammogram screening at age 40
A USA TODAY/Gallup poll of 1,136 women found 76 percent disagreed with new guidance to begin biennial mammograms at 50, and 84 percent of women aged 35 to 49 planned to screen before 50. Screening from 40 cuts mortality slightly more but raises false positives.
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