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January 25, 2008
A bill proposing to put a 1-percent excise tax on TV sets, video games and video game equipment sold in New Mexico will be submitted to the state legislature on Monday to fund programs preventing childhood obesity and improving school performance. State legislator Gail Chasey, an educator and sponsor of the bill, expects to raise $4 million from the tax each year.
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January 24, 2008
People can buy many things in vending machines, from candy and chips to sandwiches, aspirin and now medicinal marijuana. Yep. Marijuana dispensing vending machines now exist. In California Anytime-Vending-Machines in secure rooms dispense marijuana to anyone with a doctor's prescription for the weed that is legal in that state for anyone with a medical need to take it.
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January 22, 2008
Three cups of coffee a day could lessen the risk of ovarian cancer particularly for those women who do not take hormone supplements. This new revelations contradicts report issued Monday that coffee doubles the risk of miscarriage.
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January 22, 2008
A song by Sean Paul titled "Temperature," triggers a woman to seizure. Stacey Gayle said that the seizures occur regardless of the volume that the song is played. Gayle noticed the connection between her seizures and the music at a cookout where the song was being played, "then it happened at a restaurant," she said.
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January 14, 2008
An 80-year-old Sri Lankan man has been released from prison after spending 50 years on delayed trial, his lawyer said Monday. D. P. James, was arrested in August 1958, who was then 30-year-old, for attacking and wounding his father with a knife.
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