By Scott McFetridge, AP DES MOINES, Iowa — As anyone who has grown up around snow knows, part of the fun of sledding is the risk of soaring off a jump or careening around a tree. But faced with the potential bill from sledding injuries, some cities have opted to close hills rather than risk […]
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By Sonja Elmquist, Bloomberg Yale University researchers are on your mom’s side when it comes to fighting a cold: put on a sweater. The immune system doesn’t combat cold viruses as well at lower temperatures, according to an early study in mice published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Doctors have […]
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By Kathryn Reed EMERALD BAY STATE PARK – Maggie’s cleavage took our breath away. That’s what we called the saddle of Maggie’s Peak because, well, these two peaks in Desolation Wilderness are named for a woman who was well endowed. And that strip of land in between the peaks has some outstanding views. Desolation Wilderness […]
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By Anita Creamer, Sacramento Bee At the barbershop on Florin Road where he works, Chris Matsumoto was trimming a customer’s hair one day in 2006. He’d taken time off work a couple of weeks earlier after having dizzy spells. Suddenly, the severe dizziness returned. “I got dizzy again, so dizzy,” he said. “And then I […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal That Christmas visitor to Troy Brown’s place wasn’t Santa, it was a bear. And that bear captured by wildlife officials in South Reno, like another in the same spot six days before, was demonstrating behavior noted by wildlife experts for more than a decade now – at a time of […]
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By Susan Wood TWIN BRIDGES – Kristin Jacobson remembers almost dying like it was yesterday. The Benicia attorney, an advanced skier, had waited a while for a powder day in 2012. She finally got her wish on St. Patrick’s Day at Sierra-at-Tahoe where she volunteers. She and husband Eric were negotiating the black diamond Upper […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Fast food has gotten a little better for you over the last 18 years — except in cases where it’s gotten worse. Among 27 menu items subjected to scrutiny by Tufts University researchers, eight of the offerings contained fewer calories in 2013 than in 1996 and nine contained more. […]
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By Miguel Llanos, NBC News Drought? What drought? Californians could be forgiven for asking that question after two big storms in December brought record rain to the north and mountain snow to Southern California that dusted palm trees in some lower-elevation towns. The start of a new year, however, has the state back in a […]
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By Kathryn Reed SALT POINT STATE PARK — Red, yellow, orange, brown, white, green. Tiny and huge. Slimy and delicate. Spongy and bulbous. Edible and non. These were clearly not your grocery store variety of mushrooms. And, yet, we kept picking them. What we didn’t do was eat them. Sue and I were on our […]
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By AJ Vicens, Mother Jones Last year, it was reported that a small city in China had created a texting-only lane for pedestrians. The story went viral before it was somewhat debunked—turns out the lane is in a theme park, and it’s just 100 feet long—but there’s a reason it got eyeballs: everybody’s worried about […]
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