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What’s a Pack of Smokes Cost? Your Teeth
Source: NPR By Rob Stein When it comes to persuading teenagers not to smoke, you have to think short-term, the Food and Drug Administration says.…
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Line-of-Duty Officer Deaths Declined in 2013 to Lowest Recorded in Over 50 Years
Source: MADD At MADD, we consider law enforcement to be our first, most natural partner. These are our heroes that make our roadways safe. They…
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Junior Achievement Volunteer Shares Story of Surviving Tornado
Source: Junior Achievement On May 20, 2013, the city of Moore, Okla., was changed forever when an EF5 tornado ripped through the town, killing 24…
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$3,854,107 Granted By RMHC to Improve Health and Wellbeing of Children Through Innovative Train-the-trainer Project
Source: Ronald McDonald House Charities In December, RMHC granted $3,854,107 to nine organizations focused on directly improving the health and wellbeing of children through innovative…
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Google Is Developing Contact Lenses to Measure Glucose Levels for People With Diabetes
Source: Insulin Nation By Craig Idlebrook Google has announced the development of contact lenses that can measure glucose levels! The tech giant has put an…
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Women’s Reproductive Rights and Freedom to Decide at Forefront in 2014
Source: USA Today By Natalie DiBlasio WASHINGTON — The March for Life rolled through the nation’s snow-covered, bitterly cold capital Wednesday with thousands of hardy…
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What the New Farm Bill Compromise Means
Source: Share Our Strength Washington, DC – House and Senate leaders this week announced they finally had resolution on a five-year Farm Bill. The legislation…
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Income Gap Widens In D.C., Maryland, Virginia Reading Scores
Source: WAMU 88.5 Maryland and Virginia are two of eight states, along with the District, where there are gaps of 34 percentage points or more…
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Spinal Cord Injury Research: Epidural Stimulation Research Progressing
Source: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation By Sam Maddox We reported last summer that several more young men with spinal cord injuries have been surgically…
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PetSmart Charities Assists The HSUS in 2nd Largest Dog Fighting Raid in US History
Source: PetSmart Charities Nearly 400 dogs were saved from a nightmare situation in the summer of 2013, when authorities busted what’s believed to be…
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Actress Amber Zion Selected to Bring the Beauty of American Sign Language to Super Bowl Sunday
Source: The National Association of the Deaf NEW YORK, January 21, 2014 – The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) and PepsiCo announced today that after an extensive search actress Amber Zion…
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Providing Healthcare Where It Simply Doesn’t Exist: For The Homeless
Source: NBC News By Craig Stanley Over several days in January, NBC Nightly News followed the Montefiore Mobile Health Clinic as it made routine stops…
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