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1. Backpacks: Major culprit in stresses and strains that have long-term health implications
(Health/Healthquest)

... correctly: The weight of the loaded backpack should not be more than 15 percent of the person's total body weight, particularly with small children. Also, students should pack the heaviest objects first ...

2. The vacation's over ... and it's back to reality
(Life/Style)

... in point. Or more correctly, wrecks in point. On the morning after our late flight home, I grope around for my coffee, realizing that there is no one who is about to serve it to me at an open-air restaurant ...

3. PHILS BABY
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... part of the country with adequate education but i still can't spell or type correctly. ah who cares about baseball neway E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!! ...

4. pen voting and other systems
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... any given polling place, so each voter can go from any ballot-marking station to any verifying-and-recording station; the two machines can't collude to make you think your vote was cast correctly. ...

5. Vince Carter
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... last season was frank and his love for harris, who is btw, far from being a legit go-to-guy. Lets face it, carter was used as second fiddle which is still making me crazy.used correctly, the NETS would ...

6. Canada’s top economist Jeff Rubin predicts $225 for a barrel of oil by 2012
(Money/Economy)

... leaving his job at CIBC World Markets, accuses him of "anti-materialism" and "Big oil paranoia." But in 2000, Rubin correctly predicted that oil would top 50 dollars per barrel by 2005. And, in 2005 ...

7. we are purposely being kept in the dark...
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... CDC when they refused to confirm my husband...they said they don''t know why he wasn't tested, given the high exposure...but as long as he was being treated, the hospital handled it correctly. This ...

8. Whoops!
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My apologies, I read this incorrectly. Very confusing - both boys from Franklin, NJ - different counties. I beg everyone to get on the phone and call your township's health department and demand the ...

9. Baseball icon Vin Scully bridges sports, politics, broadcasting
(Sports/Professional)

...  "How'd we [the Dodgers] do tonight?" Bush faced Scully in 1947 Yale-Fordham baseball. In a 1990s Scully video, the 41st President recalled that Yale won, 2-1, "and that if I remember correctly, we both ...

10. Beating Corzine trumps issues as GOP picks contender
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  That’s the most important factor for most Republicans this time around. They quite correctly see Corzine as being vulnerable and they don’t want to blow this chance by going with the wrong guy. That’s ...

11. Kansas student, 13, wins Scripps National Spelling Bee
(U.S./Nation)

BY JULIA RITCHEY VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — In a crowded ballroom, Kavya Shivashankar beat out 10 other finalists to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee on national television. Kavya correctly spelled ...

12. U.S. to screen non-citizens departing by air
(U.S./Nation)

... is the latest post-9/11 effort to monitor and correctly identify all who come to and depart from the United States. Since 2004, the United States has collected fingerprints and other physical identifiers ...

13. Lazy Dadurday at this divorced dad's home
(Life/Style)

... there are often four kids in the house. I'm just a little taller, drive a car, and can correctly pronounce "mortgage." Several soggy bowls of Cheerios later, I ask Miranda to remind me whose turn is ...

14. Iranians free American journalist Roxana Saberi
(World/International)

... penal code Saberi's second attorney, Saleh Nikbakht, told VOA the appellate judge ruled the Revolutionary Court, which tried her initially, had incorrectly interpreted the penal code. You know, he ...