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Light Workout: High-Tech Way To Brighten Up Exercise Routines 

Looking for an intense home workout to make up for your favorite gym that’s closed because of Covid-19? Israeli startup BlazePod has developed what it dubs “Flash Reflex Training,” which uses small lighting pods that […]

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Iron Man: Dubai Man Continues Lifting Weight With Artificial Heart Pump

Dubai, UAE — A Jordanian weightlifter has set a record of weightlifitng despite being fitted with a mechanical heart pump for almost two years. Khaleel Al Herani, a 35-year-old Dubai-based property manager underwent a heart […]

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Ode to H2O: Eight Cups a Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away

Water is essential to life, but we don’t always drink enough. Drinking water can be difficult when such temptations as juices, soft drinks and alcoholic beverages are so widely available. Since water’s taste is subtle, […]

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Mississippi schools chief: Ease mandates on some tests

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Mississippi high school students will take end-of-course exams and third graders will take mandated reading assessments this spring, state Superintendent of Education Carey Wright told […]

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Mississippi requiring hospitals to halt elective surgeries

As Mississippi’s coronavirus hospitalizations continue to surpass records, the state’s top health official said Friday that hospitals full with COVID-19 patients can no longer handle elective surgeries, and he’s ordering the facilities to start postponing […]

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Mystery Illness Sickens 580 in Indian Town, One Dead

MUMBAI — More than 580 people in the southern city of Eluru in the state of Andhra Pradesh have been hospitalized with a mystery illness. Blood samples of 50 patients showed high levels of lead […]