Recent Votes

• Disturbed sleep link to diabetes

  Source: BBC News

  A disturbed night's sleep may increase the risk of developing diabetes, US research has suggested. The US team discovered that volunteers who were roused whenever they were about to fall into the deepest sleep developed insulin resistance.

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• On a Remote Path to Natural Cures

  Source: The New York Times

  Mr. Kilham believes multinational drug companies underutilize the medicinal properties in plants. They pack pills with artificial compounds and sell them at huge markups, he says.

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• Mom is charged with leaving 2 kids on CTA train

  Source: Chicago Tribune

  Chicago police found a woman who allegedly abandoned two of her three small children on a CTA train on the South Side last week and charged her with child endangerment, police said.

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• FBI has 'reignited' pursuit of D.B. Cooper

  Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

  Federal agents say they "have reignited" their pursuit of Dan "D.B." Cooper, the man who parachuted out of a Northwest Airlines plane 36 years ago over the Pacific Northwest while clutching a bag with $200,000 in stolen loot.

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• Higher food prices show no sign of retreating

  Source: Chicago Tribune

  Gloria Ford began noticing a few months back that her grocery costs were spiking, particularly for milk and eggs.

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