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...sale of a cup of coffee seems like a meaningless thing, but experts report that more than 110 million Americans drink it and total national consumption is more than 300 million cups a day. Part of the reason that so many people pick coffee over other beverages is the health benefits. Medical experts say that modest consumption has physical effects that range from slowing cognitive decline in the elderly to an improvement of the level of serum cholesterol in the blood. But, it is more likely that coffee is attractive because it is a legal stimulant, a drug without...
...Even so, countries continue to take precautions. Officials at Tokyo's Narita International Airport have installed a device at the arrival gate for flights from Mexico to measure the temperature of disembarking passengers, and passengers flying into the Philippines who report fevers have been quarantined in government hospitals. (Read "Battling Swine Flu: The Lessons from SARS...
...hoofed cows and sheep. And unlike ruminants, which produce gases that contribute 11% of Australia's greenhouse-gas emissions, kangaroos are naturally low greenhouse-gas emitters. The industry got a boost last fall when Ross Garnaut, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's top climate-change adviser, issued a global-warming report urging Australians to chuck their beef and lamb and throw more roo on the barbie...
...handful of relatively low-profile state Democrats had formally filed their candidacies, including state representative Bill Kortz and Joe Torsella, the former director of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, who issued a statement on Tuesday insisting that he intends to stay in the race. (See Mark Halperin's report card on the Obama Administration...
...crisis in 2003, Taiwan's application was rejected because of Beijing's opposition to their entrance. As China's next door neighbor, Taiwan was greatly impacted by SARS with 346 cases and 73 deaths. And at the time, because it was not a WHO member, it could not directly report to the WHO or receive direct assistance. (Read about Chinese tourists in Taiwan...