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		<title>Microwave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The microwave was invented by American, Perry Spencer, who worked for the company Raytheon, which produced weapons electronics. It began one day in 1945. when he had some chocolate that melted. He got an idea to make a device which will work by a radar system. It was supposed to send microwaves with a 2.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee: A Short History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to legend, an Ethiopian goat herder, by the name of Kaldi, observed that his goats were a lot more energized after eating berries from a nearby tree. This occurred around the 9th century. Kaldi began to try these berries himself so he made a drink from the berries in which he noticed that he [...]]]></description>
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&#8220;This study demonstrates that MDS is a very common blood cancer of the elderly, and that those who have it are at high risk of dying prematurely from other causes,&#8221; says lead author Stuart L. Goldberg, M.D., a hematologist/oncologist who is Chief of the Division of Leukemia, John Theurer Cancer Center. &#8220;This has implications for [...]]]></description>
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New tool may help improve organ donation rates
April 26, 2010   
A new tool may help neurologists predict which coma patients may be candidates for organ donation, according to a study published in the April 27, 2010, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.


Organ donations must take place [...]]]></description>
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As the country endures the highest unemployment rates in decades, the recent economic stimulus (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) made $7 billion available to be split among state unemployment insurance programs if they adopt certain measures to increase eligibility.
H. Luke Shaefer, assistant professor at the U-M School of Social Work, said these measures, among other [...]]]></description>
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Four unhealthy behaviors combine to increase death risk
 April 26, 2010   
 Four unhealthy behaviors &#8212; smoking, lack of physical activity, poor diet and alcohol consumption &#8212; appear to be associated with a substantially increased risk of death when combined, according to a report in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal [...]]]></description>
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Radiation therapy is used to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. But because radiation also damages normal cells, doctors must limit the dose. Melanin, the naturally occurring pigment that gives skin and hair its color, helps shield the skin from the damaging effects of sunlight and has been shown to protect against radiation.
&#8220;A technique for [...]]]></description>
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In 2005, California approved a law banning the sale and rental of violent video games to children under the age of 18, and ordered game makers to post explicit warnings on such games.
The law was quickly challenged, and was overturned by a lower federal court and again on appeal in February 2009 on grounds that [...]]]></description>
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The drop is estimated to have occurred some 137 million years ago during a time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and would have seen the islands fall from an average of 13 degrees centigrade (ocean temperature) to as low as four degrees.
The findings, which were published in the journal Geology and featured as a highlight [...]]]></description>
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New study: The kitchen-counter diet
 April 26, 2010   
Professor Brian Wansink and a team of researchers from Cornell University shared the findings of their &#8220;Serve Here; Eat There&#8221; study at the Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim, Calif. Results showed that when people left their serving dishes on the stove and off the table, [...]]]></description>
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