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The ancient Mayans may have had enough engineering know-how to master running water, creating fountains and even toilets by controlling water pressure, scientists now suggest.
If you hear anything about Alpine skiing these days, you hear that Lindsey Vonn is supposed to be the star of February's Vancouver Olympics.
One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff. Zoo officials say it's the first time a gorilla has ever voluntarily had its blood pressure taken in any zoo in the world.
Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday.
Mark Teixeira swings at a pitch near his eyes for strike three. Chase Utley makes a wild throw into the stands. Hideki Matsui freezes on a popup and gets doubled off first base. Sometimes it's hard to fathom: the dropped balls, the baserunning blunders, the embarrassing at-bats. Hey, this is the postseason, these guys are supposed to be baseball's best!
The Obama administration's push to settle a tense nuclear standoff with North Korea is being spearheaded not by soldiers on a battlefield or big-name diplomats but by government officials knocking on the doors of banks throughout Asia.
The Food and Drug Administration has taken the unprecedented step of acknowledging that it buckled to "extreme" pressure from Capitol Hill in its approval of a knee repair device last year. While FDA officials call the situation an anomaly, experts said Friday there is nothing to stop similar political lobbying from influencing future decisions.
Pressure deepened against Iran on Thursday when the world's eight top economic powers gave Tehran until year's end to cease enriching uranium or face new sanctions, but resistance from China could undermine the effort.
The Obama administration, scrambling to get its main housing initiative on track, extracted a pledge from 25 mortgage company executives to improve their efforts to assist borrowers in danger of foreclosure.
In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its survival.
Once again, ethnic Polish activist Andrzej Poczobut expects to be arrested in Belarus, a former Soviet republic whose authoritarian president sees his country's ethnic Poles as agents of a hostile West.
Everyone with high blood pressure — some 72 million Americans — should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers.
Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death — even if they are very old.
China's sports authority is lowering medal expectations and offering counseling for athletes as pressure mounts on the hosts to succeed at Olympic Games in August.
THAT office job might be raising your blood pressure in more ways than one.
Five passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines jet bound for Denver were treated by paramedics after the plane's automatic pressurization system malfunctioned, officials said.
Republicans Look for Mechanisms to Halt Health Insurance BillThe Senate battle may be over for now, but Republicans are vowing the war is not won quite yet.
What's your parenting method and how is it turning out? Are you one of those "good guy parents" that is very loose on rules, or are you one of those "helicopter parents" that is involved in everything the kid says or does?
Pop Culture - Page 2 - MSN Health & Fitness - MedicationsHere's my take on this situation, which a lot of people will undoubtedly disagree with, but believe me, it brings about some safe, undrugged peace: I do things my way, and if some yuppie doesn't like it, that's just tough.
America is now prepared to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. My question: where is China in this war?
Heidi Klum walks runway - 6 weeks after babyHeidi Klum, who was supposed to be acting as host of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, drew screams from the crowd Thursday night when she made a surprise trip down the runway.
Heidi Klum walks runway - 6 weeks after babyHeidi Klum, who was supposed to be acting as host of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, drew screams from the crowd Thursday night when she made a surprise trip down the runway.
30 reasons why Fox News is not legit Why the Beltway press has invested so much time and energy in recent weeks defending Fox News, with one scribe even claiming that the White House's public critique of the network was "dangerous to press freedom," and why the press refuses to acknowledge what's so obvious about th …
Start school at six, key schools report recommends Schoolchildren should not start formal lessons until they turn six, and Sats should be scrapped to relieve the damaging pressure England's young pupils face, the biggest inquiry into primary education for 40 years concludes today.
The health care debate has been extremely frustrating to me. Until last night the only thing I could "do" was write and call representatives who seemed not to care what I wanted.
by Ammaar ibn Walid Al-Darb Diya Writer The 18th of September 2009, Friday The 28th of Ramadan 1430 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful...
Q. My boss consistently gives me more work than another employee. Should I say something about it?
Seizing the moment unexpectedly once again, Sarah Palin has sucked all the oxygen out of all the Newsrooms from coast to coast. Planned newscasts have ground to a standstill as she dominates the 24 Hour News Cycles
Sources: Obama Pressured Cao To Vote For Cap-and-trade -- Dead Pelican 2009The Obama Administration tried to pressure Louisiana Congressman Joseph Cao into supporting "Cap-and-Trade" legislation. Sources say that Obama personally called the freshman congressman to ask for his support of controversial legislation that will place a tax on carbon emiss …
TV bosses 'won't ax Susan Boyle'Amid rumors that the bosses of Britain's Got Talent may dismiss Susan Boyle due to fears she was not coping with pressures of her sudden fame, a spokeman from the show stated that she was getting support from the producers and was going to stay.
Susan Boyle goes into hidingTrying to keep the press and others from hounding the suddenly world-famous songbird, Susan Boyle has moved to a secret location.
Susan Boyle in floods of tears due to pressures of fameShe has a right to be left to herself to prepare quietly for her appearance at the finals.
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Unsmiling angel: Susan Boyle shows strain of being favoriteShe may be favourite for the grand final of Britain's Got Talent but it seems Susan Boyle is starting to feel the pressure. She tried to hide her face and struggled to raise a smile while out shopping before the live finals.
Learning nothing from historyLeaving aside for the moment the malice towards Israel that is involved, the attitude of the Obama administration towards the Middle East is well-nigh incomprehensible in its suicidal stupidity.
Critic Says Islamic Extremism Gets Whitewashed in American TextbooksNEW YORK — An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools.
In a word, YES. But it is not so easy to do because of three things.
Excerpts from "Guyland", a recent American book called by Michael Kimmel, a sociologist at (New York University or Columbia?) . It is about the culture of young men in contemporary America, mostly on College Campuses.
STEFANIE RENGEL SLAYING: FIRST-DEGREE MURDER TRIAL - How teen drama hooked up with lethal realityExcerpt: As the disturbing portrait of an obsessed and driven killer emerged from a prosecutor's opening statement in Ontario Superior Court yesterday, a teenaged girl, owlish glasses on her chubby cheeks and her long hair in a ponytail, sat serenely at a table near the front of …
ABC News: Salma Hayek On Why She Breastfed Another Woman's BabyExcerpt: Since ABC's "Nightline" aired a story last week about Salma Hayek's goodwill trip to Sierra Leone, there has been a world-wide outpouring of reaction.
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