LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- If you're heading to the airport or hitting the highways on Friday or Saturday, you'll have plenty of company, as the holiday travel rush kicks into high gear.Nationwide, AAA expects 91.1 million people to travel 50 miles or more for the holidays.
Some 11.4 million Californians will travel during the end-of-the-year holidays, a 4.1 percent increase compared to last year.
"One size fits all" is never a suitable strategy for addressing concurrent Middle East crises. Nearing the first anniversary of the beginning of upheavals across the Arab world, there is no doubt that the complexity of each country requires a tailored approach.
What seems to have worked in Libya—a mix of domestic opposition to strongman Muammar Qaddafi and international support to force his overthrow—is not applicable to other Arab countries in turmoil, certainly not Syria.
Researchers made a major advance in the decades-old effort to use gene therapy to treat the bleeding disorder hemophilia B, reporting that six patients in a study started to make more of a crucial blood-clotting factor that prevents severe bleeding episodes.
Encouraging news.
Older athletes may never beat 20-year-olds in a 100-meter sprint, but a new, small study suggests that, in at least one way, they are just as efficient runners.
The study, published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, examined a measure called running economy, which gauges how efficiently the body uses oxygen at a certain pace. Across the three age groupings of the study's 51 participants (18 to 39, 49 to 59, 60 and older), running economy was about the same.
The term "lifestyle disorder" had to be invented to describe hypertension. Almost no aspect of daily life -- diet, sleep, exercise, work and stress -- can be implicated. Your blood pressure responds to these things quite sensitively. This implies an optimistic attitude, because for many sufferers, a change in lifestyle serves as good prevention. But optimism is lost if lifestyle changes are not kept up for a lifetime. For millions of patients, the arrival of high blood pressure as they get older comes at a stage when prevention may be too little, too late.
South Fulton, Tennessee city officials decided some time ago to charge a $76 fee per year for residents to receive fire services. Vicky Bell didn’t pay. So recently, fire fighters responded to her area to protect neighboring homes of those who did pay the fee, but did nothing while Vicky’s trailer burned to the ground. Mayor David Crocker stated that if fire fighters did respond to those who failed to pay the fee, there would be no incentive for other residents to pay. He added that fire fighters will intervene if a resident’s life is in danger.
Wow!
(NaturalNews) Americans and Brazilians, who are more exposed to fluoride than other populations, have a desperate need for more iodine. Taking iodine in its Nascent form would be the best way of increasing iodine levels in the safest and most effective way possible for adults and children whose thyroids are already compromised by fluoride and other halogens. I will write much more about this in another essay. Today I want to bring the good news that many towns and cities across America are starting to pull the plug on water fluoridation.
(NaturalNews) If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient listed there as L-cysteine. This is a non-essential amino acid added to many baked goods as a dough conditioner in order to speed industrial processing. It's usually not added directly to flour intended for home use, but you'll find it throughout commercial breads such as pizza dough, bread rolls and pastries.
This sounds disgusting!
