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Video Extra >>> Video of Students Helping Peer Lose Weight Goes Viral

Video of Students Helping Peer Lose Weight Goes Viral

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Almost Half of the Public Schools in Newark New Jersey Have Contaminated Drinking Water

By Jarrod Horton Staff Writer A report from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has concluded that 30 of Newark’s 66 schools were contaminated with elevated levels of toxic metal in their drinking

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Drug companies will earn $1.8 billion this year from cancer drugs that patients never take

by Sarah Kliff Article Reprint Pharmaceutical companies will earn nearly $2 billion this year selling drugs that patients never take.

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Gil Hill, Eddie Murphy’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Boss, Passes Away at 84

Gil Hill, a former Detroit city councilman and one-time mayoral candidate, died from unknown causes on Monday. By: B. Alan Orange Article Reprint Sad news for Beverly Hills Cop fans today. One of the franchise’s

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Dying from a treatable disease: HIV and the men we neglect

By: Kathryn Dovel, Sara Yeatman, & Susan Watkins Article Reprint In rural Malawi it is not uncommon for neighbours to see a skeletal man being pushed in a wheelbarrow by his son or his brother.

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Utah lawmakers reject push to expand abstinence-only sex ed

  edweek.org Article Reprint SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have rejected a Democratic legislator’s effort to expand sex education in public schools.

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Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ Dies at Age 89

  By: Bill Chappell Article Reprint Harper Lee, the author of the classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird, has died in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer was 89.

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Getting Old in Prison

by Robert Rosso Article Reprint At a federal prison in Indiana, inmate Jim Wesley Davis leaves the pill-line after drinking a small cup of crushed medication mixed in water. Approaching the chow hall for the evening

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