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Yoga helping U.S. war wounded from Iraq, Afghanistan
The practice is ancient, the wounds are modern. Yoga is now being practiced at Naval Medical Center San Diego and other military and VA hospitals to help Marines, soldiers, sailors and others wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The goal is to...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Iraq, Armed Forces, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Wounded veterans turn to yoga for strength and solace
SAN DIEGO — Army 1st Sgt. Chris Montera, who lost both legs above the knee and suffered third-degree burns over 60% of his body in a mortar attack in Afghanistan, is doing a headstand, guided by yoga instructor Sunny Keays. "It takes a lot of...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Eglin Air Force Base, Emergency Incidents, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Explosions
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Format, funding options taking shape for veterans court in Orange, Osceola
A new veterans-court program is close to launching in Orange and Osceola counties to help keep returning troops who land in trouble out of jail by connecting them to counseling, mentors or other services they need. The latest talks between court,...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Lawyers, Broward County, Punishment, Apopka
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New Hampshire nears approval of medical marijuana law
ReutersBy Jason McLure LITTLETON, N.H., June 18 (Reuters) - New Hampshire is set to become the final state in New England to allow medical marijuana after negotiators from the Republican-controlled Senate and Democratic-controlled House agreed Tuesday on a bill...Tags: Glaucoma, Executive Branch, Government, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Health Treatments
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A war veteran comes home to a strange world
An intensely conceptual play like "Luther" (not the John Osborne play, nor the BBC America thriller, but a new work from New York by Ethan Lipton) relies on an audience buying its central metaphor. In this instance, that metaphor takes the form of a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, BBC
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CORRECTED-New Hampshire nears approval of medical marijuana law
Reuters(Corrects 7th paragraph to show caregivers, not medical providers, limited to five medical marijuana patients at one time) By Jason McLure LITTLETON, N.H., June 18 (Reuters) - New Hampshire is set to become the final state in New England to allow...Tags: Glaucoma, Executive Branch, Government, Health Treatments, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Suicide, Emergency Incidents, U.S. Army, Explosions
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A rose garden to remember dad
South Bend TribuneA rose garden for dad. Christine Sopczyn-ski, of South Bend, has been elated about her rose garden on Westmoor Street, near Kennedy School. Chris said the garden was started by her father, Ben, in the mid-1940s. Her father was an accomplished rosarian and...Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Lincoln Center, Lobbying, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research. In reclassifying chimps as...
Tags: Science, Research, Duke University, Politics, National Government
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'Ride of the Valkyries' rouses Caltech students for finals
The courtyard at Blacker House at Caltech was quiet at 6:59 a.m. Wednesday, the empty concrete space littered with several splintered wooden pallets, three large tires, a crowbar and sledgehammer. A minute later, the crescendo of Wagner's "Ride of the...
Tags: Entertainment, University of California, Los Angeles, Music, NASA, Science and Technology
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Military doctors urged to refuse force-feeding at Guantanamo
ReutersBy Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger strikers at the Guantanamo detention camp because it violates their ethical obligations, two doctors and a medical...Tags: Human Rights, Suicide, Politics, Prisons, Medical Procedures and Tests
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South Whitehall Township Zoning Hearing Board denied Dorney Park nightly fireworks displays
After listening to nearly seven hours of testimony over two days, the South Whitehall Township Zoning Hearing Board unanimously denied an appeal on Monday to give Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom permission to have a fireworks display every night during...
Tags: Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Holidays, Cetronia, Whitehall
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Jun 11, 2013
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