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POLAR BEAR Weight: 440 to 1,760 lbs. Length: Up to 8 ft. 5 in. Range: Greenland, Norway, Russia, Canada, Alaska How dangerous: Extremely. The polar bear will stalk humans for food Status: It could be extinct by the end of the century, as global warming reduces the ice it roams in its hunt for seals, its primary food...
AMERICAN BLACK BEAR Weight: 130 to 660 lbs. Length: Up to 6 ft. 3 in. Range: Much of Canada; 32 U.S. states, mostly in the Rockies, Appalachians and Ozarks; northern Mexico How dangerous: Not especially. The black bear avoids humans but can't resist garbage dumps; will attack if cornered Status: Thriving throughout most of its range
Overweight girls are likelier than slimmer ones to start menstruating before age 12. They're also eight times as likely to become overweight adults. The early periods have often been blamed for the weight struggles, but a new study in Pediatrics reverses that. It's being overweight, the journal says, that appears to kick-start puberty...
...government estimates that 1 in 15 U.S. homes has radon levels that are too high. The best advice is to have your home tested. If you are worried that you might have symptoms of lung cancer-- such as a persistent cough, especially with blood-tinged sputum, or unintentional weight loss--get a checkup...
...rapper who was shot nine times and survived, then left the drug game to make music with Dr. Dre and Eminem. But the real story of Curtis James Jackson III, as he explains in the prologue to his intense yet ultimately unsatisfying autobiography, “From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens,” is filled with more pain, guilt and hope than one episode—taking nine bullets in the legs, hand, shoulder, and face as he sat in a car outside of his grandmother’s house?...