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- Four things you can do now to lower your risk of breast cancer
- Advice on going out of area for cancer treatment
- Food safety during the heat of summer
- Gluten intolerant, celiac or just overconsumption of refined grains?
- Too much sugar contributes to poor cholesterol. Who knew?
- 'Edible Food-like Substances'?
- What's wrong with what we eat?
- Hey, I recognize that face!
- Not all dogs shake the same
- The Terrafugia flying care approved by FAA
- Fascinating: The secret powers of time
- Furniture that exceeds your space-saving dreams
- A carbon neutral Britain by 2030? If they can, why not us?
- Perfect pitch: Finding the notes among us
- Patterns written by sound
- Making bubbles
- Pulling the plug on the old light bulb
- Cancer self-assessment is easy to do
- Olive oil could help breast cancer patients lose weight
- A breast cancer vaccine on the horizon? Could be. Could be huge!
- Saving Louisiana's wildlife one pelican at a time
- Nikola Tesla.
- ARC GIS Imagery for DeepWater Horizon response
- DD would like to give you a FREE one!
- Scientists create synthetic 'life'. Enormous potential for good.
- A drink a day may keep some calories away.
- Health care reform for seniors explained
- Hummingbird spotted in Reno
- The Western Tanagers are migrating through Reno now
- Excellent explanation of breast cancer mechanisms
- Trying to get that lipid and cholesterol number down? Here's how.
- The power of germs and 'Babies'
- Bloated after meals? Here's help for the gassy misery of it all.
- Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
- Maven changes course on rBST in milk
- If a Pug can be green, so can you
- Taxing sugary sodas? It's probably a good idea.
- Save money and ditch your multi-vitamin
- Time to ban rBGH in milk and meat
- Alice Waters has a lot to say about food, kids and The Edible Schoolyard
- Anna Lappe on 'Diet for A Hot Planet'
- KFC wants to kill us all with a 'Double Down'
- Sugar, obesity and metabolic syndrome
- Apple iPad as an ebook reader?
- Is the Apple iPad a netbook killer?
- Reasons to love the Apple iPad
- Reasons to hate the Apple iPad
- The year open data went world-wide
- What is that stop sign costing you?
- Make your own flash memory hard drive
- Creating a living building
- Exercise for woman: The news gets better and better still
- No, caffeine does NOT dehydrate you. Really.
- Reno weighs in better than average
- Full body airport scanners and radiation
- The science of a good beer
- National I.D. cards may be next
- Do we really need 3D TeeVee?
- My backyard birds: Reno, Nevada
- Dinosaur's: Why more colorful that previously thought?
- Diet fact, fiction or maven's way?
- Chile earthquake just shortened your workday!
- Controlling Your Cancer Care Costs
- Earthquake! Be prepared.
- Snacking: A necessary evil that can be tamed
- Dealing with motion sickness
- Don't get tricked by so-called 'healthy' hamburgers
- Reporter diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer
- Are you getting all the health insurance benefits you deserve?
- Breast Cancer: Treatments for early, confined cancer
- Health notes: clinical trials, weight loss and mood
- A snow blower for real men
- Hey, Boys and Girls! Make your own Batman and Robin comic!
- Kyle Franklin Air Show Comedy Act
- Animator vs Animation.
- Incredible! Scale model Ferrari.
- Is Coke losing its fizz. CSPI thinks so.
- Cleaning for a reason gives help to cancer patients
- Radiation therapy safe, effective and lifesaving
- The Fordson Snow Machine: ahead of its time in 1929
- Save your money on multi-vitamins
- Stress and memory? Good causal links.
- Depression and a thinner cerebral cortex?
- Multidisciplinary approach helps cancer patients
- Flicker in my backyard
- Creationism vs. science?
- Repair or replace those aging appliances?
- A great Pan Am Clipper short film
- Geo-technical aspects of the Haitian earthquake
- Really ready to lose weight? Here's the simplest way possible.
- Sopwith Camel and Spitfire flying in formation
- A couple of Lancairs running the California coast. Sweet.
- Any wonder why the owl is my fav bird?
- New apps for those on the go
- Interet hoax update on cancer from NCCN
- Can red make Olympians see more gold?
- Does media violence inspire real violence?
- Stop drinking yourself fat
- Every answer you need for a climate change skeptic
- Not exactly rocket science: a science blog for everyman or woman
- No, you are not the center of the universe
- Beginner resistance band workout
- Easy chair workout for everybody of every age
- Keeping your New Year's diet resolutions
- The physics of water under low gravity
- Sully on the economy and aviation safety
- Capt. Chesley Sullenberger at the Commonwealth Club
- 8 Resolutions toward a better brain for 2010
- Getting over the ridiculous health claims
- Join NBCC webcast for facts on mammography guidelines
- 33rd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
- Cancer patient pocket guides available from CURE
- A great B-52 story.
- General Motors may be on to something with Hy Wire
- Up close and personal with a U-2
- Debunking supplement and aromatherapy myths
- Water as luxury and what can be done about it
- Behold the wonder of a 1,000 lb pumpkin
- Why do leaves turn red in the fall?
- Take the money and run?
- Janaki Alavalapati on forests' renewable energy potential
- 10 things that a breast cancer patient doesn't want to hear
- Breast Cancer Awareness month is over. Breast cancer isn't.
- What is pancreatic cancer anyway?
- Senator Harry Reid and the Unified Smart Grid
- Susan Solomon on climate change
- How to band migrating birds
- A warm piglet is a happy piglet
- Museum of Animal Perspectives: Armadillo cam
- Myth: The media accurately reports breast cancer science
- Myth: My Senators and Members of Congress have no role in what happens in breast cancer
- Time to understand the limitations of screening mammography
- Six ways to take a mental vacation for good health
- Myth #18: Second opinions are only for treatment options. Once I know I have breast cancer, I can get a second opinion on how to treat the disease.
- Truth: Hormone replacement therapy increases your risk of breast cancer
- Will somebody help George Will understand climate change?
- Do you really need to grow better eyelashes? Maybe not.
- Proper hand washing technique for flu season
- Boston Dynamics robotic Big Dog
- Myth: In terms of survival mastectomy is better than cutting out the cancer and having radiation.
- Truth: The mortality rate is higher for African American women
- Myth: Everyone's breast cancer is the same.
- Myth: Everyone who has a positive BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 will get breast cancer.
- AARP wants you to go 'green' and win!
- Myth #8: Most women with breast cancer have a family history of the disease
- NPR story finds the gaping flaw in 'fee for service' medical model
- How to create a river in the laboratory
- Myth #9: Men don't get breast cancer
- Truth #7: We don't know how to prevent breast cancer
- A book for husbands/partners of breast cancer patients
- Myth #6: Mammograms prevent breast cancer.
- Truth #5: Breast cancer mortality rates are declining
- First hand account: Samoa earthquake and tsunami
- Wingsuit base jumping: "now it's getting boring so we play around."
- Breast Cancer: Avon Foundation Breast Center at Johns Hopkins
- Have you just been diagnosed with breast cancer?
- Myth #4: When breast cancer shows up, it may have been in your body for 6-10 years
- Myth #3: MRI is better than mammography
- Myth #2: Mammograms can only help and not harm.
- DropBox: A better way of sending, synching large files
- Tired of fighting the CD burner software?
- Myths about breast cancer: Self exams save lives.
- Create a memorable password system
- EU moving to protect young ears from MP3 noise levels
- Baby owls: cute bundles of fluff at London Zoo
- Is there any benefit from taking multivitamins?
- More jobs in a greener Nevada? Could be so.
- Max Baucus: go home to Montana and stay there.
- New film ‘Earth Days’ takes a sometimes-devastating look at the history of environmental activism
- NASA | Feeling the Sting of Climate Change
- How not to take off in a seaplane. Ouch.
- A note of hope from a seven year breast cancer survivor
- Tips and resources for vitamin and supplement smarts
- Do Vitamin D and Omega-3s live up to their promise?
- Call and get those lab results for yourself
- Where my bees at?
- Autolib: Paris to launch electric car sharing
- Got insomnia? There's a simple, safe and free prescription.
- A sneaky problem: inner ear dysfunction
- Evidence-based healthcare. Dartmouth symposium.
- A smart grid? What is it? Why? How? Now?
- Clean coal? Surely, you jest.
- Global warming? What a hoax!
- Horizon PEM Fuel Cells : powering toys a new way
- NOAA Fisheries
- NASA to take a closer look at solar activity with SDO mission
- Perseid Meteor Shower
- Not simple: The role of personal responsibility in health care reform
- Aircraft collision in the Hudson River VFR Corridor
- Get texters off the road: Summit on distracted driving slated
- Kids not getting enough Vitamin D for future good health
- Exercise guide for seniors
- Protect your health by preventing antibiotic resistance with these 5 tips
- Vitamin D: another weapon in the arsenal against cognitive decline
- The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
- Conquest: the online magazine for M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Sunscreen: less is actually more
- What climate change means for the land and agriculture
- Take a 'bite' out of global climate change
- "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
- A living, breathing 'green' driveway?
- Study repudiates 'chemo brain'
- It works: Weight Watchers online Momentum Plan
- Are proposed medical insurance co-ops the answer?
- How to reform healthcare reform: Science Friday
- Getting an appointment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Amazing strength and gymnastic ability in Poland
- Exercise: Getting past the drive to be thin
- Train vs tornado. Train loses.
- Riversimple : viable hydrogen car startup venture?
- I'm not suggesting that they can't fly in Abu Dhabi, but....
- Unmanned drones: bigger, smaller and definitely stranger than you may have expected
- Oh, those clever Japanese. Motorcycle tow trucks.
- Got money to burn? Fortified foods.
- Lunch and a massage, anybody?
- Foods don't 'burn' fat, even in magazines
- Two tier safety system in airlines: Duh, do you think?
- Controlling your weight at the juice and smoothie bar?
- Tips for eating less: so simple you'll wonder how you missed it
- Alyssa Milano: Food Inc and food safety PSA
- Food and lifestyle choices that can affect memory
- Peapod NEV is almost here
- New Interior Secretary spells hope for the Everglades
- Golden Gate bridge turns 70 today. Happy birthday!
- Warning: do not carry fuel in your airplane other than in the tanks.
- Swiss military aviation
- Nutrition helps keep cancer patients alive
- Red Bull helicopter does back flips
- More reasons to get additional Vitamin D
- Making better food choices: posting calories
- CR take note: Two hot, new consumer resources to empower us
- Miles O'Brien nails it: Colgan crash and deregulation
- 5 Key Points to know about Obama's Health Plan
- Mental Stimulation is Not Enough for Brain Fitness
- 10 tips on loving your life
- The Consumerist: A CR blog
- Driving safety from AAA
- Is your food making you sick?
- How much RAM memory do you have or need?
- Being Mindful of the Moment
- High Fructose Corn Syrup: Not off the hook yet
- Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
- Breast Thermography: not likely to replace mammography soon
- The Need for Health Insurance
- Brain training improves memory and attention, with lasting effects
- Still looking for that 'right' diet?
- Ooops, I thought I tied it down better than that !
- MIT creativity meet third world orphans in the wash
- Integrative and alternative medicine in cancer treatment
- Why women should strength train
- Close your eyes and trust the pilot on these
- Avoid temptation of 'cheap' health plans
- The Science of Place and Well-Being
- Volvo's 'City Safety' collision avoidance system explained
- The 'Uno': you've got to see this motorbike!
- The James Bond jet: BD-5
- The engine to end all engines
- How to really help a sick friend
- If Florida can do it solar, so can Nevada
- Nutrition Action from CSPI
- Acai berries: Good for you or your wallet?
- Drink 'green' and save money, too
- Cancer care: Chance to ask the experts!
- Chinook water extraction
- Critical thinking in approaching cancer treatment
- VW To Launch 258 MPG Car: Starting price $600
- Deep Solar Minimum: How low is low?
- Amory Lovins Advocates for a Cleaner, Safer Energy Future
- Awesome airport runway in Portugal
- Kudos on German effeciency
- Railroad fans will love these .... snow plows
- His robot legs may make a difference
- Seven decades of stupid diet tricks
- Health and wellness factoids
- Don't contribute to spam
- ATP pilots needed for airspace simulation study
- There are still records to be set
- Disappearing coral reefs: the rain forest of the seas
- Sleep disorders: misunderstood and underestimated
- 5 diet tips that everybody can live with
- Brain Awareness Week: Check out great tools from Posit Science
- Making a difference - Buddy can you spare a ride?
- Breast density and your risk of breast cancer
- Getting the right start to your cancer journey
- This gives new meaning to 'humungous'
- Troubleshooting common computer problems yourself
- NTSB Report: Fossett and N240R
- Neti pots: getting past the "eeeewwww" factor to soothe factor
- PET and CT scans critical new modality in determining chemo effectiveness
- Health care IS economic recovery
- 10 pieces help solve cancer puzzle
- What makes a good commercial airline pilot?
- HIGHLIGHTS: A Green Recovery, A Low Carbon Economy
- Creating Jobs for a Green Economy
- Non-reflective mirror
- Irrational fear of irradiation making us sick
- Low carb diets: Are they making us stupid?
- 6 Tricks to Help You Remember
- Carrier landing video
- NAA Spring Awards Luncheon and Collier Trophy winner.
- US Airways, Flight 1549 crew testifies before Congress
- Debunking medical myths
- Amazing video: US Airways Flight 1549 trucked through city
- Trent 900 jet engine being destroyed by simulated bird strike
- UPS pursuing green technology for the brown trucks
- I want one and I want it now.
- A first person account of the Hudson River ditching
- Message from Repower America
- Renewable energy in Nevada? You bet.
- Lost there, felt here: Thomas L. Friedman
- Bookmark these calculators and Hubble telescope references
- Sleep tight to avoid high blood pressure
- Obesity epidemic
- A pilots' perspective: Bombardier crash in Buffalo, New York
- Vaccine and autism link: it's over, or should be
- Mass migration of golden rays caught on film
- Exercise to ward off irregular heartbeat
- Your Health By The Numbers
- Catastrophic satellite collision
- Update: Bombardier Dash 8
- Bombardier Dash 8 crashes into Buffalo, New York home
- Exotic species pushing out native in Florida Everglades
- Interview with crew of U.S. Airways flight 1549
- Flat screen plus rabbit ears doesn't equal digital
- Spam: in more than your inbox
- Salmonella outbreak widens
- Do not try this at home: nose over
- Flying car
- To Our Leaders: Give Us 100% Clean Electricity in 10 Years
- A little dirt: good for what ails you
- Restaurant smoke and mirrors produce calorie nightmares
- Tough national standards: the only way to tackle energy and environmental challenges
- F-16 Intercepts Jet & Turboprop Legally Flying Through MOA
- Rod Machado - aviations' funny man
- The confusion over High Fructose Corn Syrup and obesity rates
- How to boost your intelligence: 10 tips
- There are no drive-ins on the way to Mars
- Ernest Madu: Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
- Ditching technique described and analysed
- New evidence of warming in the Antarctic
- Clean air equals a longer life
- storms, eggs and bad breath - oh, my!
- Did you know this about gold?
- Take your power line and stick it?
- An airline captains' perpective: Miracle on the Hudson
- Take the gallon challenge: indoor use
- Just go chill- your brain that is.
- Why don't cars use carbon capture?
- Heart failure and hip fractures- the connection
- A negative verdict for glucosamine and chondroitin supplements
- New Russian jet fighter SU-30
- U.S. Airways jet ditches in Hudson River
- It's about time: Surgical checklists
- If Massachusetts then why not America?
- Did you know? Don't blink!
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: Michael Pollan
- Dangerous 'go-arounds'?
- Cirrus G3 EVS Infrared Vision System
- Interview of new AOPA chief, Craig Fuller
- Navy Blue Angels lined up for 2009 Reno Air Races
- Do you get enough Vitamin D?
- High Cost of Medicine - Marketing Disease/Pushing Drugs
- No wing, no prayer
- Wish you were here: Postcards from Mars
- Inside Diamond's D-Jet, Personal Jet Aircraft
- Cirrus single engine jet test flight
- Cessna turbo-diesel Skyhawk 172
- CrownAir's "New" Cessna 210 Centurions
- Aviation Safety Magazine Profiles the Garmin 696's Top Safety Features
- The first 'green' hangar of the future
- Ginko Biloba: save your money
- Making the label promises meet the reality
- Sharp at any age: exercise to reverse cognitive decline
- Caring for sensitive teeth
- Still taking Vitamin E? Time to reconsider.
- Happiness: A good kind of contagious
- Lung Cancer Gene Discovery A Sign of Cancer's Future
- Obesity worsens locally advanced breast cancer prognosis
- Aggressive treatment of nodal mets indicated
- Role of MRI in staging disappointing
- Neo-adjuvant Zometa shows promise
- Hormone replacement therapy and risk
- Breast cancer patients: caution with skin creams
- Femara shows promise in early stage disease
- Sounds like Tamoxifen is doing the trick
- Continental 737 goes off runway at Denver
- The first thing you need is a second opinion
- Virgin 19 heavy lands SFO
- Virgin 19 heavy, cleared for taxi takeoff: London
- Aerobot flying fish: elegant in flight
- The future of GA: Smartfish?
- Miles O'Brien to leave CNN: Science, Space and Tech unit to go, too.
- STS-126 return to Edwards AFB
- The Raptor Demo at the 2008 Aviation Nation Air Show at Nellis AFB.
- 2008 Nellis Airshow fun
- Flying the new STOL CH 750 light sport utility airplane
- They fly just a bit different in Russia
- Addison Pemberton's Boeing 40
- Painful mammograms? Here's help.
- Cancer patients and dietary supplements
- First commercial use of an autopilot: Curtiss Condor
- Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy may be enough for early stage breast cancer
- Top 10 Ways to Reduce Risk
- Fire bombers over Santa Barbara wildfire
- F-16's out of Eielson AFB, Alaka
- Boeing 737-900 takeoff with an open window
- Landing a Pilatus Porter in Corcheval, France
- 3-D Doppler ultrasound helps identify breast cancer
- C-17 Smoke Angels
- These will tighten the sphincter!
- Incredible Pilatus Porter short, soft field landing
- Taking off from a small road in the Congo
- Fokker-50 Sudan ops
- Here's to the world's flight attendants
- Racing airliners!
- World's shortest commercially served runway?
- Americans with Disabilities Act to be more cancer survivor friendly
- Jonna's Body, Please Hold. A Cancerous Dark Comedy - A Film by Jonna Tamases
- Are You A Working Breast Cancer Survivor?
- Family gets booted from airline
- Psycho flight attendant?
- 70 years of Icelandair
- Worlds' Biggest Aircraft
- Funny Scottish Air Traffic Controllers
- JFK: Just another crappy day at the office
- Royal Air Force ATC gals aren't easily flustered by a rocket attack
- Royal Air Force ATC gals rock!
- Air Traffic Worldwide
- Post Mastectomy Care
- Assess your breast cancer risk
- Hatha Yoga for cancer patients
- Coping with the fear of recurrence of cancer
- What is breast cancer?
- Breast Cancer: Is breast MRI right for me?
- Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
- Tour of the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Tour of the University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: Support, Programs, Services
- Motherhood, metastisized breast cancer and clinical trials
- Now that's airport security I can like !
- Ridge Soaring the Hog Back - Paradise Valley, MT
- Oh, those funny Germans and their gliders
- Five airports - 1 flight
- Chicago Airport Faces Serious Growing Pains
- Your pathology report, and why you should care
- Types of breast cancer: Not a one size fits all disease
- Aviation ringtones for your phone
- Digital Mammography
- How breast cancer biopsy is performed
- Choosing the right doctor
- Hair loss during cancer treatment: a chance to try a radical new style!
- Becoming a sharper pilot with the Brain Fitness Program Classic
- Your first visit to the Oncologists' office - part 1
- Chemotherapy before surgery?
- Don't let distance keep you from the best cancer care
- Airborne Ops Rocks!
- Those amazing Hercules C-130's
- Soy products and breast cancer survivors
- Reno's own Ben Scott and the 2008 airmail odyssey
- F-22 action at the 2008 Reno Air Races
- Photos from National Aeronautics Association awards event
- Breast Cancer breakthrough
- The role of exercise in breast cancer outcomes
- Some kinda crosswind landings!
- Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron of the Susan G. Komen Foundation: breast cancer survivor speaks
- University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Video: Breast cancer diagnosis in young women
- University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Video: What is cancer?
- Breast Cancer: Not always a lump
- Just when you think you can't make a difference in cancer treatment
- Please! Get a second opinion in a breast cancer diagnosis.
- Delta Air Lines is taking flight for the fight against breast cancer.
- SciTechBlog: Interesting post on Fossett search
- Join the Army of Women today
- A personal breast cancer journey
- Rocket Man-1, NASA-0
- Blue Angels over San Francisco Bay: Fleet Week
- Miles O'Brien and Lt Col Cynthia Ryan show what it takes to search
- Civil Air Patrol: Never Let Go video
- Wien Air Alaska: 1980 commercial
- Landing on the worlds' shortest runway
- GE Wright Brothers ad
- Trading Jet A for algae? Maybe.
- Reno Air Race 2008 photo gallery
- "MayDay!":Nevada Wing, Civil Air Patrol is on the job
- Fighter pilot gets a great photo op .... Ooops.
- Everybody loves the Great Reno Balloon Race
- California wildfire photographs tell a story that is as inspirational as it is frightening
- Flying the Sierra BiPlanes Waco over Lake Tahoe, Nevada
- JFK Tower Audio: Evacuation of Tower Due to Fire
- F-22 Raptor: Radical Aviation Video
- Virtual Western Airlines: Join today and fly
- Virtual WAL 777 landing at SFO
- A loving tribute to Western Airlines
- A Look At Airlines That Are Just Memories
- The Only Way to Fly ..... That Was Western Airlines
- The Blackbird Pratt & Whitney J58 engines and fuel
- Ahhh, the old days landing at HongKong Kai Tak airport
- Rough day on the freeway.
- 360 degree view of Airbus A-380 cockpit













