Month: December 2016

She and her husband Tom had just retired from their successful dental practice, and Kathy felt she had the time to devote to improving her diet and …
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The first gorilla born in captivity has returned to her enclosure at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio after recovering from successful surgery last week to remove a malignant tumor, the zoo said. Colo, a western lowland gorilla born on Dec. 22, 1956, is the matriarch of the Columbus Zoo’s popular gorilla family, according to the zoo’s website. Western lowland gorillas, native to the rain forests of Central Africa, are an endangered species, according to nationalgeographic.com.
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The model shows that if food supply is often restricted (as it is when dieting) an optimal animal – the one with the best chance of passing on its genes …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, key health care industry groups are telling the incoming Republican administration and Congress that it's not a good idea to repeal the 2010 health care law without clear plans to address the consequences.

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The European Commission will propose legislation next year requiring airlines to run mental health checks on pilots before they start commercial flying, as part of efforts to prevent a recurrence of last year’s Germanwings crash. Authorities have been looking at ways to toughen pilot screening and better assess their mental health after a young pilot locked himself in the cockpit and crashed a Germanwings plane into the Alps in March 2015, killing all 150 aboard. Under the new proposals, put forward by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Friday, operators will have to ensure pilots have access to support programs.
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