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(Photo: WN / Yolanda)Kicking the obesity epidemic
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(Photo: AP / Karim Kadim)Some Iraq Results Coming Wednesday
An Electoral worker empties a ballot box to begin counting the results at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 9, 2010....Full Story

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Izard Nobel LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Medivation, Inc.
WEST HARTFORD, CT, Mar 09, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- | The law firm of Izard Nobel LLP, which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been fi...Full Story
A Reluctance to Ride the Market
| As they set their energy budgets for next year, the owners of hundreds of buildings in New York will be eligible to join Con Edison’s hourly pricing plan for electricity service, broadening a program that allows customers to monitor electricity usage as it chang...Full Story
St. John's Eliminates a Fading UConn
| For all the athleticism that UConn’s lineup brought into Tuesday’s game against St. John’s, it was the unit’s collective apathy that was most striking on the court. Suzy Allman for The New York Times | Justin Burrell, right, and Sean Evans of S...Full Story
Clam or Mussel Stew With Greens and Beans
| This is a great winter seafood stew adapted from a much richer recipe by Mark Peel, executive chef of Campanile Restaurant in Los Angeles. It’s easy to make and easy to serve. Recipes for Health | Each week this series will present recipes around a particular ty...Full Story
Half of Food Aid to Somalia Is Diverted, Report Says
| As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff, according to a new Security Council report. | The report, which has not yet been made public but was ...Full Story
Fur Takes Center Stage Again
| Paris in winter has a fairy-tale quality. There are silver skies, palatial buildings and enchanted forests of shivering black trees lining the avenues. There are beauties and there are beasts — and this season the former is wearing the latter. | On the autumn/wi...Full Story
A Boho Bow
| PARIS — Just when you thought it was time to say bye-bye to Boho, along comes a Kenzo show to make the most of hippie de luxe. Chris Moore/Karl Prouse | At Kenzo, Antonio Marras has done a good job of making the almost 40-year-old label relevant today. Multimedi...Full Story
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Beige Is Beautiful
The New York Times | PARIS — Chloé has the collection for any woman who believes that there is nothing like filching looks from a male wardrobe. Chris Moore/Karl Prouse | Hannah MacGibbon sent out menswear for women, in shades of brown from camel to butter...
Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic
The New York Times | PARIS — The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of “le smoking” — the tuxedo suit. | “All my war...
Guilty Plea in Extortion Attempt Against Letterman
The New York Times | Saying that he felt “great remorse for what I have done,” a former CBS producer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman by threatening to reveal details about affairs that Mr. Letterman had with mem...
Flu Shots in Children Help People of All Ages
The New York Times | An unusual study done in 49 remote Hutterite farming colonies in western Canada has provided the surest proof yet that giving flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. | Although previous studies have demonstrated wha...
Gates Visits Former Taliban Village
The New York Times | NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, but the lone street of shops was so sleepy that it looked as if everyone had been...
Airport Built, It's Time to See if the Traffic Comes
The New York Times | The first new international airport in the United States in more than decade is set to open in May near Panama City, Fla., a community of 37,000 people on the state’s panhandle. That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and fi...
Israel Intends to Build Civilian Nuclear Plants
The New York Times | PARIS — Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy, offering to build one as a joint project with Jordan, under French supervision. | T...
U.K. Plan for Free Elderly Home Care Is a Hard Sell
The New York Times | LONDON — Every Tuesday, Janet Isobel Bishop walks the few blocks from her rented one-bedroom apartment in Notting Hill to a painting course, followed by Tai Chi lessons. The classes are paid for by the British government, just like the weekly...
Tue 9 Mar 2010
Abbott Enhances Pharmaceutical Pipeline with Acquisition of Facet Biotech
PR Newswire   Provides Promising Biologic Intended to Treat Multiple Sclerosis and Compounds that Complement Abbott's Existing Diverse Oncology Program | ABBOTT PARK, Ill. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Fa...
She lost the farm, but found a new life
Star Tribune | Anna Sitte lost her life's savings to swindle, her ability to recognize family members to dementia and, at 78, is about to lose what's left of the farm her family settled a century ago. | "What she has is a measure of dignity," her son Ji...
Arkansans Hard Hit by Alzheimer's Disease
MSNBC | According to the Alzheimers Associations 2010 Alzheimers Disease Facts and Figures just released today, there are 5.3 million Americans living with Alzheimers disease. | The association says the growing prevalence and escalating impact of this dise...
Pittsburgh helps in testing of Sensecam for elderly memory issues
The Examiner | Sensecam Device http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SenseCam_img_3367.jpg If you like this ... Expert technology partnerships help the elderly Will our elderly be the first to live like the Jetson's? Elder Info 101:Will health care reform by itself f...
Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP Files Class Action Suit against Medivation, Inc.
Stockhouse SAN DIEGO, Mar 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- | Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP ("Coughlin Stoia") (http://www.csgrr.com/cases/medivation/) today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Cou...
Western Md. man gets 7 1/2 years for bilking elderly
The Examiner Comments HAGERSTOWN, Md. (Map, News) - A Hagerstown man has been given 7 1/2 years in prison for bilking an elderly Boonsboro man out of more than a quarter-million dollars. | Forty-year-old Daniel Meldron was sentenced Monday for obtaining the prope...
Producer Admits to Attempted Letterman Shakedown
The New York Times | Filed at 5:31 p.m. ET | NEW YORK (AP) -- A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers, avoiding a long prison sentence by pleading guilty in exchange...
Powder in Envelope Sent to Mont. Office No Threat
The New York Times | Filed at 5:30 p.m. ET | HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana authorities say powder released when an envelope burst while being handled by state workers in Helena posed no threat. | Police in Butte were looking for a suspect who could be behind the suspic...
Astros Hit Santana Hard in 8-4 Win Over Mets
The New York Times | Filed at 5:23 p.m. ET | PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- Johan Santana struggled in his first game since August, allowing four runs on six hits in 1 2-3 innings, and the Houston Astros beat the New York Mets 8-4 on Tuesday. | Kaz Matsui hit a solo home...
Still No Set Spot in Texas Lineup for Murphy
The New York Times | Filed at 5:03 p.m. ET | SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) -- David Murphy has started in every slot of the Texas batting order -- one through nine -- and only teammates Michael Young and Ian Kinsler have played more games for the Rangers the past three seasons....
Browns Release Former Pro Bowl QB Derek Anderson
The New York Times | Filed at 4:54 p.m. ET | CLEVELAND (AP) -- Quarterback Derek Anderson's uneven five-year stint with the Cleveland Browns is over. | The team released the one-time Pro Bowl quarterback Tuesday, one day after the Browns acquired backup Seneca Wallace ...
Abbott Enhances Pharmaceutical Pipeline with Acquisition of Facet Biotech
Stockhouse Provides Promising Biologic Intended to Treat Multiple Sclerosis and Compounds that Complement Abbott's Existing Diverse Oncology Program | ABBOTT PARK, Ill. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 9, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- | Abbott...
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