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2009-01-05 Troops invade Gaza

Local residents said Israeli forces in the opening hours of fighting took up positions in the northern Gaza Strip, in an area frequently used by militants to fire rockets across the border and near the southern town of Rafah.

Four Israelis have been killed by rockets that continue to pound southern Israel, where residents have been told to stay home and take cover in rooms made of reinforced concrete. Israel carried out more air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

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2009-01-05 Fosamax Jaw Necrosis Risk Identified in New Study :

Pending against Merck which have been filed by users who have developed jaw necrosis after taking the drug. All federal cases have been consolidated for pretrial litigation as part of an MDL, or multidistrict litigation in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

According to new research from the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry,

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2009-01-04 Israel to entrench deeper into war with Hamas_English_Xinhua

Reserve Deputy Commander of the Gaza Division Moti Yogev told Xinhua that "the primary objective of any military operation was to defend Israels southern population and to do so in a manner that would require the least amount of ground operation in a densely populated area while providing the most possible security for civilians living in southern Israel. "

The ground war in Gaza will have to be waged in densely populated urban areas, and unlike the case in the war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006, when civilians fled into northern Lebanon during combat, Gazans only choice is to flee towards the Egyptian border.

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2009-01-04 News-Regional

Paterson is giving out usd. 1 million to regional food banks across New York, including the Food Bank of the Southern Tier. Enrollment in the states Food Stamp Program reacged a statewide all time high in November.

ALBANY-- Times are tough and more New Yorkers are using food stamps to feed their families. Now Governor David Paterson announced an emergency one-time boost to the program.

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2009-01-04 Cancer risk is linked to bone strengtheners

In a separate report Thursday in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Parish Sedghizadeh of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry reported that he had observed nine cases of osteonecrosis of the jaw among 208 patients taking oral bisphosphonates -- an unusually high incidence.

The family of bone-strengthening drugs called bisphosphonates -- best known by the brand names Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva -- pose a small risk of causing esophageal cancer, a Food and Drug Administration official reported Thursday in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.

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2009-01-04 Knotts Discounts Admission For Guests Who Bring Canned Food

Last years food drive at Knotts Berry Farm yielded 34,425 lbs. of food for local distribution. The collected food will be used by the Orange County Food Bank to help meet the needs of Southern Californias most destitute families and to collect needed donations beyond the traditional holiday period when the need is great and food supply is low.

Is for the eighth year partnering with the Orange County Food Bank to help fight hunger in Southern California. From January 5 through , every guest who makes a food donation at the park will get in for the junior price of usd. 22. 99. Thats a savings for usd. 29 off the regular admission price of usd. 51. 99.

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2009-01-03 Food, medicine, fuel needed in Gaza, agencies warn

Al-Jazeera reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, who is in Gaza City, said food and humanitarian supplies are scarce, even though Israel has allowed about 4,300 tonnes of essentials into the region during the past three days.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man looks at the damage to the classroom of a school caused by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza, in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Wednesday.

Karen AbuZayd, the commissioner general for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said aid workers were optimistic the short lull would help the roughly 750,000 Palestinians who receive food aid.

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Food and medical supplies are trickling into Gaza, say aid agencies, who warn a lull in violence is urgently needed to stem a deteriorating humanitarian situation. - Gaza palestinians israel

2009-01-03 Amid a Buildup of Its Forces, Israel Ponders a Cease-Fire

The flurry of diplomacy appeared to be mostly byplay in Jerusalem and Gaza, as Israeli officials spoke of a continuing and expanding military operation, and Hamas vowed to step up its resistance. Israeli warplanes attacked tunnels used to smuggle supplies in southern Gaza and destroyed the home of a top militant leader.

That is different from the cease-fire that existed in the last six months, said the spokesman, Gordon Duguid, noting that Hamas had routinely violated the previous agreement by firing rockets into southern Israel.

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With air attacks on Gaza heading into a fifth day, Israel was considering a 48-hour cease-fire. - Gaza Strip Israel Hamas Palestinians Armament Defense and Military Forces

2008-12-28 Lexington News - Kentucky News Lexington Herald-Leader

Many businesses and some government-owned buildings in southern Kentucky have gone smoke-free voluntarily. But only communitywide laws ensure that workers and customers are free from exposure to secondhand smoke in all public places, advocates say.

There are no laws against lighting up in restaurants and public places across southern Kentucky, a traditional tobacco-growing region where the political landscape is conservative with a shot of libertarian.

Some of the opposition to smoke-free laws in southern Kentucky is rooted in the areas longtime reliance on tobacco as a cash crop.

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2008-12-28 Asia appetite for turtles seen as a threat to Florida species - Los Angeles Times

Federal law prohibits the capture of endangered or protected species. But it does not cover common turtles such as Floridas softshells, whose widely varying population estimates range from 4 million to 20 million. Softshells also abound in other, mostly Southern, states, some of which, including Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama and Mississippi, have banned or severely limited commercial harvests. Until recently, Florida had no limits on softshell harvests.

Carl Chu, the author of "Finding Chinese Food in Los Angeles," recalls growing up in his native Taiwan and watching as turtles heads were cut off and their blood mixed with alcohol, then drunk as an aphrodisiac. Its one small illustration of an age-old Chinese belief that all kinds of food are therapeutic, he says.

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The turtle tank at Nam Hoa Fish Market is empty, but not to worry: The manager of this bustling Chinatown store says he has plenty in back. - Wildlife management news ethnic foods turtles marine life