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Which States Are the Most and Least Obese?

Which States Are the Most and Least Obese? - Obesity is weighing the country down—in some parts more than others. The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released its annual report on obesity this week. The study found that last year rates among adults increased in six states—Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Wyoming—and decreased in none. Mississippi and West Virginia fared the worst in the nation with adult obesity rates at 35.1 percent. Nine...

'Godmother of Cocaine' Gunned Down in Colombia

'Godmother of Cocaine' Gunned Down in Colombia: Reports - A 69-year-old woman known throughout the drug world as the "Godmother of Cocaine" was gunned down by an assassin on a motorcycle in Colombia Monday, according to international news reports. Griselda Blanco, once listed alongside Pablo Escobar as one of the "most notorious drug lords of the 1980s" by the Drug Enforcement Administration, was fatally shot as she left a butcher's shop in western Medellin Monday afternoon, according to a report...

Polite Parents Warn Fellow Passengers About Their Newborns with Candy Gift Bag

Polite Parents Warn Fellow Passengers About Their Newborns with Candy Gift Bag - Almost everyone knows that feeling of dread we get when a person with a crying baby boards our flight. Try doubling that, and watching parents get on with twins. At that very moment, most of us think "'wouldn't it be nice if there were a mute button for life?"' Well, one couple decided to ease the tension and stress of their fellow passengers by being polite while on their flight. A Reddit user posted a photo from...

Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me?

Study questions how much better organic food is — Patient after patient asked: Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me? Unsure, Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out — and concluded there's little evidence that going organic is much healthier, citing only a few differences involving pesticides and antibiotics. Eating organic fruits and vegetables can lower exposure to pesticides, including for children — but the amount measured from conventionally...

21 Ways Rich People Think Differently

21 Ways Rich People Think Differently - World's richest woman Gina Rinehart is enduring a media firestorm over an article in which she takes the "jealous" middle class to task for "drinking, or smoking and socializing" rather than working to earn their own fortune. What if she has a point? Steve Siebold, author of "How Rich People Think," spent nearly three decades interviewing millionaires around the world to find out what separates them from everyone else. It had little...

Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars

35 years later, Voyager 1 is heading for the stars — Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars. Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of space — the first time a manmade object will have escaped to the other side. Perhaps no one on Earth will relish the moment more than 76-year-old Ed Stone, who has toiled on the project from the start. "We're anxious to get outside and find what's out there,"...

Arab-Muslim to join 'Green Lantern' comic series

Arab-Muslim to join 'Green Lantern' comic series — When DC Comics decided to blow up its fabled universe and create a brave, diverse future, Geoff Johns drew from the past for a new character: his own background as an Arab-American. The company's chief creative officer and writer of the relaunched "Green Lantern" series dreamed up Simon Baz, DC's most prominent Arab-American superhero and the first to wear a Green Lantern ring. The character and creator share Lebanese ancestry and hail...