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Account exceeds FDIC insurance limits? Try using CDARS
A good way to insure large deposits In these turbulent times in the financial markets, nothing is risk-free. Except for bank deposits that don't exceed FDIC insurance limits, that is. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insures individual depositors for...Tags: Life Time Fitness Incorporated, Dick's Sporting Goods Incorporated, Merck & Company Incorporated, Allergan Incorporated, NVIDIA Corporation
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Food and fat camp spur Stephanie Klein's book
Special to NewsdayNo one likes fat girls. Stephanie Klein had that statement imprinted on her brain from an early age, the unskinny adolescent daughter of a skinny mother with her own image problems and a father whose notions of "helping" were a bit too bounded by...Tags: Illnesses, Eating Disorders
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Video games can have have adverse effects, Dr. Ronald Davis says
This is addressed to parents: Have you ever worried about the amount of time your kids spend playing video games? You have reason to be concerned. In late April, the fourth version of Grand Theft Auto went on sale. First-week sales were in the...Tags: Video Games, Children, Epidemics and Plagues, People, Addiction
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Ticked off! @ layabout criminals, loudmouth idiots and jealous housewives
•Regarding these people trying to correct other people's way of speech because they think it's improper: The fact God gave them the ability to talk to begin with is a miracle. They aren't so perfect either, because here they are gossiping and...Tags: Orange County (Florida), Easter, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Illnesses, Fraud
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Christofi: Give our kids a veggie choice for school lunch
Forum Publishing GroupAs an animal rights-supporting, vegan mom of a 10-year-old vegan boy and a recent transplant from New York, I was elated to find out that the Broward County School District is now offering a veggie burger option on school lunch menus. With the recent meat...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Food Industry, Palm Beach County School District, Broward County, Animals
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Ky. lawyers face new trial in diet-drug settlement
Associated Press WriterTwo lawyers accused of defrauding their clients in a diet-drug settlement of $65 million were sent back to jail Thursday after a jury deadlocked and a federal judge declared a mistrial. The jury had considered the case against suspended lawyers William...Tags: Judges, Wetlands, Natural Resources, Western Medicines, Defendants
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Burger King sets sights on moms with new kids meals
The Associated PressAfter watching its bigger rival McDonald's Corp. try to woo mom, Miami-based Burger King Corp. is launching a new marketing and promotional campaign Monday meant to grab her attention. "A large part of our customer base is parents with children," said...Tags: McDonald's Corp., Public Relations, Elections, People, Family
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Burger King looks to woo mom with new kids meal
AP Business WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The clown trying to win your mother's heart has a new rival and this guy's royalty. After watching its bigger rival McDonald's Corp. try to woo mothers and grab a share of the family budget, Burger King Corp. — known for its...Tags: McDonald's Corp., Public Relations, Elections, People, Family
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June 30: Execute child rapists, fight fat, Levy on college budget, prom courage
Fight fat easily Yet another company sees the need to study ways to treat obesity ["OSI studying obesity treatment," News, June 20]. How about eat less, exercise more? Except in rare medical cases, this has a proven history. The same history has shown...Tags: East Meadow, Health and Safety at School, Budgets and Budgeting, Illnesses, Government
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A healthy lifestyle as second nature
Herbert Pardes, MD, is president and chief executive of New York-Presbyterian Hospital.Parents and educators are rightly concerned that children get a solid grounding in language and mathematics. These skills will be useful and important in later life. But what about ensuring that later life is long and healthy? An estimated 9 million...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Curricula, People, National Institutes of Health, Illnesses
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