Posts Tagged ‘weighing’

US weighing travel request for Yemen’s president (AP)

An elderly protester chants slogans during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP – The Obama administration is considering whether to allow Yemen’s outgoing president into the United States for medical treatment, as fresh violence and political tensions flare in the strategically important Middle Eastern nation.


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Alaska voters weighing in: salmon vs. gold (AP)

AP – The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world’s premiere fisheries is headed to the ballot.

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Weighing cancer risks, from cellphones to coffee (AP)

A unidentified man uses a cell phone in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, June 14, 2011.   Despite all the recent news about possible cancer risks from cellphones, coffee, styrene and formaldehyde in building materials, most people face little if any danger from these things, health experts say.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP – You’re sitting in a freshly drywalled house, drinking coffee from a plastic foam cup and talking on a cellphone. Which of these is most likely to be a cancer risk?


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Weighing risk, benefit of live-donor transplant (AP)

AP – Live-donor liver transplantation is a lifesaving option for many suffering from end-stage liver disease but also a controversial procedure that raises questions about when it’s appropriate to put a healthy person at risk to save another.

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Heart Attack Grill offers free food to diners weighing more than 350 pounds

At The Heart Attack Grill in Arizona, the more you weigh, the more you get.

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Mother of 4-year-old found dead and weighing just 15 pounds arrested

The mother of the malnourished 4-year-old girl found dead in her squalid Brooklyn apartment was busted on assault charges Friday – but the cause of her daughter’s death is not yet known, officials said.

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Jury begins weighing Blagojevich corruption case (AP)

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and his wife Patti, right, arrive at the Federal Court for the beginning of jury instructions in his corruption trial, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in Chicago. Blagojevich and his brother are accused of scheming to sell or trade President Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP – Rod Blagojevich’s fate was in the hands of jurors Wednesday as they began deciding whether the impeached Illinois governor tried to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat and schemed to use his political power for personal gain.


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