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Everyday Activity Said Key to Weight Loss

It turns out some couch potatoes spend more time on the couch than others. And that could be a key to obesity (search). Researchers at the Mayo Clinic believe it’s not the trips to the gym, but the everyday pacing, fidgeting and restlessness that may play a bigger role in …

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Palestinian Candidate Arrested in Israel

JERUSALEM – Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghouti (search) was detained Friday outside Jerusalem’s Old City as he tried to pray at the Al Aqsa mosque (search) compound. Mustafa Barghouti, who is running a distant second in opinion polls, was forced by three Israeli plainclothes officers into a police car outside …

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Squirrel Expert Woos Idle Brains

BAGHDAD, Iraq – In the Baghdad night, awakened by the rumble of car bombs and the thump-thump of attack helicopters, Peter Smallwood lies in a sandbagged trailer counting his trees. In his mind’s forest, the University of Richmond (search) ecologist zigzags through a dark maze of Appalachian hardwoods until he …

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