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1. 5 breakfasts, loaded with fiber, that will help you burn fat
(Health/Healthquest)

BY LAURA POWELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ON HEALTH AND FITNESS Fiber is a good component of breakfast foods as it has "slow release" or complex carbs that tend to lower the blood sugar spike that leads ...

2. Workers protest Verizon layoffs after company collects tax breaks for keeping jobs in New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... passed the Cable Franchise bill, opening up the state for expanded fiber optic build out (FiOS), also supposedly creating jobs in New Jersey. Instead, Verizon has contracted work overseas and to vendors ...

3. New Jersey DEP honors state's recycling leaders
(N.J./State)

... achieved a 72 percent recycling and reuse rate as a result of a campus-wide program that includes fiber, plastics, metal, wood and food waste. The food waste program alone diverted 120 tons. Other items ...

4. State grocery program for N.J.’s poor providing healthier food
(Health/Healthquest)

... and higher in fiber and fruits and vegetables. The food package also offers options that meet families' cultural needs. In addition, the package promotes continued breastfeeding by offering breastfeeding ...

5. N.J. inventors Willard Boyle and George Smith receive Nobel Prizes for creating charge-coupled device
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their revolutionary work in laying the groundwork for today's digital photography and fiber-optic communications networks. As the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the ...

6. Lose weight by unleashing the power of fiber
(Health/Healthquest)

... to snack happens when your blood sugar levels drop — giving your body the message that you need more fuel. (Enter the vending machine.) This happens after eating meals that are low in fiber, low in calories, ...

7. Solar plane team hopes to circle Earth in 2012
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... extremely light carbon fiber. While the prototype has a wingspan identical in length to an Airbus A340, a large commercial passenger airplane that weighs in at 260 tons without cargo, this one-man plane ...

8. Sky Blue FC upsets Los Angeles Sol for WPS Championship
(Sports/Professional)

... ups and downs that we went through this season, but I think in the end its character building. I just think the fibers of this team are so close and so tight that nothing was going to break us. The Sol ...

9. United States spending billions to become a broadband nation
(U.S./Nation)

... series of 10-year plans for deploying high-speed Internet. Maryland legislators spent $10 million, starting in 2006, to lay fiber-optic cables in the state's Eastern Shore and southern Maryland. Illinois ...

10. Top 10 items for college students to bring back to school
(Life/Style)

... beds often require extra-long twin sheets. 2. Clothing and Hangers Plastic hangers work fine. Try color-coding different seasons. 3. Desk or Reading Lamp Non-halogen or fiber-optic lamps are best ...

11. You can still eat healthy during the summer grilling season
(Health/Healthquest)

... the lettuce, using a tooth pick to keep it all together. 3. Eat, knowing you're being good to yourself because we're talking 170 calories, 6 grams of fat, 15 grams of carbs, 5 grams of fiber and 15 grams ...

12. Deepest part of the ocean explored by Nereus robotic craft
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... surface ship direct Nereus in its tethered mode through a fiber-optic cable. Bowen explains this lighter cable replaces the steel reinforced copper wire cables used by traditional robotic systems. "We ...

13. Call it the sweet parasite: Sugar a dangerous commodity
(Health/Healthquest)

... be worse than nothing? Plainly put, refined sugar is an anti-nutrient. It starts out as sugar cane, and then goes through an extensive refining process that destroys all of the enzymes, fiber, vitamins ...

14. Robot sub reaches deepest part of the ocean
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... measures four meters in length, is remotely operated by pilots aboard a surface ship via a lightweight tether. The thin, fiber-optic tether allows the submersible to make deep dives and be highly maneuverable. ...

15. States roll out plans for 'smarter' roads
(U.S./Nation)

... new E-Z Pass toll booths to allow drivers to pay without stopping in Delaware and traffic lights connected to fiber optic cable to reduce bottlenecks in Utah. Technology improvements, in particular, ...

16. Do Cheerios really lower cholesterol?
(Health/Healthquest)

... disease, but the Cheerios claim that it lowers cholesterol goes too far and fails to mention that fruits and vegetables must be part of a fiber-rich diet. The FDA issued a warning letter to General ...

17. Sock it to me: Jerseyan launches online service to cure sock woes
(Money/Economy)

... Italy, using the highest quality yarns with long fibers that pill less and are more durable. Sockscribers have the option of calf socks, knee socks, and cashmere silk socks. "The fact that Blacksocks ...

18. Santa and his gang wave goodbye to Fountains of Wayne
(Money/Economy)

BY GREG SAITZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM In the end, this is what Santa was worth: $25 a foot. For $1,000, a certain someone walked away with a 40-foot Fiberglass Santa that used to tower over the Fountains ...

19. Fountains of Wayne to hit auction block
(Money/Economy)

BY GREG SAITZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM With any luck on Saturday, April 25, Giant Santa will rise again one last time at Fountains of Wayne. And if you've got enough cash, the towering fiberglass St. ...