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...first major studies to look at fish-eating women reports that those who consume seafood five times a week have a 50% lower risk of stroke. Reason: fatty acids in fish decrease the "stickiness" of blood, reducing the odds that a clot will form. Herring, salmon and bluefish have the most fatty acids; sole and haddock the least...
...fits! The winner is Colby!") Last year rabid fans scoured video stills and images swiped from CBS computers to glean clues, some accurate, some not, about which Survivor would next get booted. But Burnett played the would-be spoilers like a baby grand, impishly editing footage and planting red-herring files at the official website to flummox them. At the S2 location, besieged by journalists spying from the air and infiltrators trying to break in on the ground, 25 guards, some on horseback, some wearing infrared glasses, patrolled the 25-mile perimeter around the camp ready to escort intruders away...
...boats gathered near a circle of churning sea, where gannets plunged like dive bombers into shoals of herring that had been rounded up by a pod of orcas. When eventually the pod left the feeding ground, Keiko swam in line with them. "It's like taking your kid to school for his first day," says animal behaviorist Jeff Foster, who has worked with whales for 30 years. But Keiko did not, Hollywood-style, swim off with his relatives into the sunset on this August day. Once again he returned to the boat and his more familiar human companions...
Lawyers and safety advocates think the focus on Decatur is a red herring that would isolate the problem and limit the companies' potential liability. If it was a manufacturing problem, safety advocates ask, why didn't any of the other 50 or so lines of tires made at the plant fail? They may have a point. A former employee at the company's plant in Wilson, N.C., also described by Firestone as disgruntled, has testified to similar quality-control issues at that facility...
...Lawyers and safety advocates think the focus on Decatur is a red herring that would isolate the problem and limit the companies' potential liability. If it was a manufacturing problem, safety advocates ask, why didn't any of the other 50 or so lines of tires made at the plant fail? They may have a point. A former employee at the company's plant in Wilson, N.C., also described by Firestone as disgruntled, has testified to similar quality-control issues at that facility...