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Live in the NYC metro area and interested in helping us improve ND?

We’ll be testing some changes to ND this fall / winter and would love your help. It will take about an hour of your time to “test drive” some new ideas and improvements. The location would be in mid-town Manhattan sometime between 9am and 5pm on dates still to be determined. So if you are […]

Study: Over 30% report alcohol abuse

CHICAGO (AP) More than 30% of American adults have abused alcohol or suffered from alcoholism at some point in their lives, and few have received treatment, according to a new government study. Alcoholics who got treatment first received it, on average, at about age 30 Д eight years after they developed dependence on drinking, […]

“Guiding Stars” steer shoppers to healthier foods

What a cool idea! A grocery store in Maine hired a nutrition advisory board to assign a rating to every food in the store…foods earned from 0 to 3 stars based on a formula that took into account vitamins, minerals, fiber, and whole grains (all plusses), trans fats, saturated fats, cholesterol, and added sugars and […]

Three 500-year-old Inca children are given a new ‘home’

SALTA, Argentina: The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: They were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice.
Unearthed in 1999 from the 6,700-meter, or 22,000-foot, summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano 480 kilometers, or 300 miles, west of here near the Chilean border, […]

1 year and counting for morning-after pill

NEW YORK (AP) In the year since it was approved for over-the-counter sales, the morning-after pill has become a huge commercial success for its manufacturer, but its popularity and solid safety record haven’t deterred critics from seeking to overturn the milestone ruling.
The pill, marketed by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. as Plan B, was the […]