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Before there was Hollywood, there was Jacksonville
The Associated PressBefore there was Hollywood, there was Jacksonville. Oliver Hardy made his debut film there in 1913's "Outwitting Daddy." The first feature-length color film produced in the U.S. -- the 1917 release "The Gulf Between" -- was filmed in Jacksonville. It...Tags: Keanu Reeves, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Armed Forces, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Incorporated, Melbourne
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Minnesota news in brief at 8:58 p.m. CDT
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday. The Institute of Medicine said drafts of...Tags: Xcel Energy Incorporated, Medicine, Political Candidates, Pollution, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Dennis Lehane's "The Given Day"
So says Babe Ruth, recently sold by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees, as he explains the way of the world to a union man whose strike has been busted in Dennis Lehane's eighth novel, "The Given Day." That aphorism is the novel's theme,...Tags: Society, Sam Raimi, NAACP, Demonstration, Boston Red Sox
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Retired judge's recusal will delay release of L.A. clergy sex-abuse files
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA year-old legal agreement requiring the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to release confidential personnel records of priests accused of sexual abuse has been thrown into limbo by the departure of a retired judge selected to vet the documents....Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Christianity, Steve Cooley, Roger Mahony
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Weaving a web of biking trails
He has tried bicycling on the roads, but Gene Bayer learned his lesson long ago: You can't size up what a motorist is thinking.
"I've been hit twice," said Bayer, president of the Baltimore Bicycling Club, via cell phone as he pedaled along the BWI Trail...Tags: Morgan State University, Vehicles, Frederick Law Olmsted, Obesity, Transportation
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Palin pick expected to boost Clinton's role for Obama
elizabeth.moore@newsday.comThe naming of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate has boosted the importance of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's help to his Democratic opponent, campaign operatives say - but not for the reasons...Tags: Parties and Movements, Political Candidates, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Elections, Economic Policy
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Smoking: an R-rated offense
The Times deserves credit for recognizing in its Aug. 23 editorial "Smoking in the movies" the tremendous impact smoking in movies has on our nation's youth. We disagree with its assertion, however, that giving movies that depict smoking an R rating...Tags: Corporate Officers, Medicine, Government, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Government
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Don't brush off vaccines so quickly
Julie Deardorff's most recent column ("A little shot of skepticism won't hurt a bit," Q, Aug. 31) raises vaccine concerns by dusting off old standbys like thimerosal (practically no longer in use and proven safe in several studies from multiple countries)...Tags: Virus Diseases, Preventative Medicine, Vaccines, Diseases
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Can exercising exorcise addictions to drugs, alcohol?
Associated PressWASHINGTON—Sure, exercise is good for your waistline, your heart, your bones—but might it also help prevent addiction to drugs or alcohol? There are some tantalizing clues that physical activity might spur changes in the brain to do that. Now...Tags: Academic Progress, Medicine, Therapies, Obesity, Health Organizations
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Transgenders get home of their own
Sentinel Staff WriterAndre Johnson has struggled his whole life to find a home. Johnson, 44, in his blond wig, nail polish and gold bracelets, longs to live as a woman. But calling himself Angie, he felt neither safe nor comfortable. People told him God didn't make mistakes,...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Diseases, Assault, Minority Groups, AIDS
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Old Diabetes Rules Don't Apply
Chicago TribuneDiabetes has become a full-blown epidemic in this country — and it's getting worse. Every day in the United States, 4,100 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that one in three Americans...Tags: Health Organizations, Heart Disease, Health Treatments, Diet, Diseases
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Of Top 10 Tuesday, salsa lessons and dengue fever
Dining@LargeSo it's decided. Tomorrow's Top 10 will be foods that were difficult to eat the first time you encountered them (until you got direction from someone else). This is in honor of Gailor, whose original idea it was, and who......Tags: Diseases, Communicable Diseases
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