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Union Leader endorses Newt Gingrich (The Ticket)

NAPLES, Fla. -- Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pushed back against opponents who accused him him of supporting "amnesty" for illegal immigrants based on comments he made at a recent debate in Washington, DC,?on immigration reform.

Gingrich fielded criticism this week after arguing that some illegal immigrants with close ties to their community should not be deported.

"Several of my friends were explicitly distorting what I said, even though they knew better," Gingrich said at a campaign stop in Naples, Fla., on Friday. "So I think it takes a few days to clarify that in fact what they are saying isn't true."

Under Gingrich's plan, which he has articulated before, the federal government would establish a system of local boards to determine whether illegal immigrants could be permitted to remain in the United States based on their ties to the community.

"I propose that we take the World War II model of the selective service program," Gingrich said. "In World War II, local community citizens judged who ought to be drafted and who shouldn't . . . . It requires trusting citizens rather than bureaucrats. It's a jury system for local communities."

Gingrich added that he thought that immigrants eligible to stay should have spent at least 25 years in the country, have close ties to a community and a family, but predicted that most would voluntarily leave.

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Development of the brain network in the fetus now measurable for the first time in the womb

ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2011) ? A team of researchers at the MedUni's Clinical Department of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology has demonstrated for the first time ever that there are fetal brain developments that can be measured using functional magnetic resonance tomography in the womb. This means, says study leader Veronika Sch?pf, that pathological changes to brain development will be detectable earlier than they are currently -- and appropriate measures can be taken in good time.

In the study, 16 foetuses between the 20^th and 36^th weeks of pregnancy were measured. Measurements were taken of the brain's resting state networks. These networks remain in a state of readiness at rest and their activity increases after appropriate stimulation. The examinations are completely stress-free for the mothers and extend "normal" MRI scans by just a few minutes.

Functional defects are detected earlier "We have been able to demonstrate, for the first time ever, that the resting state networks are formed in utero and that these can be imaged and measured using functional imaging," explains Sch?pf, who is part of the working group led by Daniela Prayer, Head of the Department of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology and head of the world's leading centre for pre-natal magnetic resonance imaging at the MedUni Vienna.

This discovery means that, in future, the developmental progress of brain activity in the fetus can be measured and other findings and prognoses made regarding possible malfunctioning processes. As a result, functional defects, such as of the optic nerves or motor system, can be detected while the fetus is still in the womb -- an achievement that was previously impossible -- so that parents can be offered more informed advice and counselling, for example.

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Kirsten Alana: Friday Photo: Thankful (Huffington post)

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Pope says economic crisis requires brotherhood (AP)

VATICAN CITY ? Pope Benedict XVI says the global economic crisis requires a courageous show of brotherhood.

Benedict also expressed concern in a speech at the Vatican Thursday that there is a risk that hope will diminish amid the growing troubles, including the uncertainty that young people feel amid the economic crisis.

"Humanity is searching for signs of hope," he said.

Benedict lamented what he called the "divide" between wealthy and poor nations, and the harm many people are suffering to their dignity. He cautioned that helping the needy means more than feeding the hungry ? people must explore the causes of hunger, he said.

Benedict was speaking to members of the Italian branch of Caritas, a Catholic charity.

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FEMA: N.C. Flood Insurance Program Deadline and Hotline Extended

Release Date: November 23, 2011
Release Number: 4019-103

??More Information on North Carolina?Hurricane Irene

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The National Flood Insurance Program announced on Tuesday that the deadline for policy holders to file proof of loss statements related to Hurricane Irene has been extended in North Carolina and 14 other states as well as the District of Columbia. The new deadline is January 23, 2012.

The extension was granted because NFIP policyholders up and down the East Coast are encountering difficulties filing proofs of loss. A proof of loss is required before a policyholder can receive payment of the flood insurance claim.

The Hurricane Irene flood insurance claims hotline in North Carolina has also been extended until further notice.

The hotline is staffed by flood insurance specialists who can answer questions about the flood insurance claim process, such as how to work with a flood insurance adjuster or how to check the status of a settlement. Staffers can take requests for reinspection and offer guidance on the steps necessary to settle a claim.?

The hotline operates from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The hotline will be closed Thanksgiving Day. The number is 855-336-2002.

When flood insurance policy holders call, they should have on hand the following information:

• Name of insurance company
• Flood insurance policy number
• Name and telephone number of the insurance agent
• Name and telephone number of the insurance adjuster

For more information about the National Flood Insurance Program, go online to www.floodsmart.gov or call 888-379-9531.

Disaster recovery assistance is available without regard to race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency or economic status. If you or someone you know has been discriminated against, call FEMA toll-free at 800-621-FEMA (3362). For TTY call 800-462-7585.

FEMA?s temporary housing assistance and grants for public transportation expenses, medical and dental expenses, and funeral and burial expenses do not require individuals to apply for an SBA loan. However, applicants who receive SBA loan applications must submit them to SBA loan officers to be eligible for assistance that covers personal property, vehicle repair or replacement, and moving and storage expenses.

FEMA?s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

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Peregrine's breast cancer drug shows promise in trial (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc said breast cancer patients taking its experimental combination therapy lived seven months longer than patients who received standard chemotherapy in a mid-stage trial, sending its shares up 19 percent.

The company is testing its antibody drug bavituximab in combination with standard chemotherapy in patients with locally-advanced or metastatic breast cancer.

In the trial, patients receiving bavituximab combination therapy survived for an average of 23.2 months, compared with 16 months for patients receiving standard chemotherapy.

Bavituximab is an antibody designed to bind to a type of phosphatidylserine that becomes exposed in malignant or virally infected cells, triggering the body's immune system to attack the damaged cells.

Shares of the company, valued at about $68.4 million, were up 9 percent at 94 cents in early morning trade on Tuesday on Nasdaq.

(Reporting by Balaji Sridharan in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)

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Rick Perry Mansion Sees State Spending Hit $800,000

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When Rick Perry recently attacked entrenched politicians for abusing their public positions and living large at taxpayers' expense, critics were quick to turn the tables on the governor.

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150 cars on Penn. Turnpike get stuck in goo. Who will pay?

A tanker truck leaked driveway sealant over nearly 40 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Tuesday night, disabling 150 vehicles.

A flood of gooey black muck dropped from a tanker truck disabled about 150 cars and damaged an unknown number of other vehicles along a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania?Turnpike, officials said.

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A leaking valve on a tanker spread driveway sealant over the eastbound lanes of a long stretch of the Turnpike between New Castle and the Oakmont Service Plaza on Tuesday night, Turnpike spokesman Bill Capone said.

Turnpike operations officials on Wednesday said 150 or more cars were disabled when the sticky goo covered their tires and wheels. Some state police and turnpike maintenance vehicles had to be towed away after getting stuck in the tar-like substance, according to the turnpike operations center.

Traffic was moving normally by Wednesday morning, but the sticky mess had already hindered the travel plans of some motorists traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Laura Frick told WTAE-TV she was traveling from Cleveland to New Jersey for the holiday.

"Now we have to turn around and go back home," Frick said. "It's horrible."

Retired firefighter Bob King told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the experience was the most harrowing of his life.

"It caught us off guard," said King, who now lives near Chicago. "It didn't seem like anyone knew what it was or what to do. It had to be an incredible amount of tar. It's still piled on my tires."

Cpl. Mike Corna, with the state police barracks which patrols the pike near Pittsburgh, said Wednesday the driver will be cited for not properly securing his load, though the specific tickets to be issued were still being determined. Police have yet to trace the origin of the load. The tank was filled somewhere in Ohio.

Maintenance crews got out quickly, dumping sand on the pooled goop and using snow plows to push it on to the shoulder, turnpike spokesman Carl DeFebo said. The mess was mostly confined to the right lane and the roadway didn't have to be shut down while workers tried to clean it up because the substance hardens in about 15 minutes, DeFebo said.

"It's been cleaned up since about 11 o'clock last night," DeFebo said Wednesday.

Turnpike officials urged motorists whose cars were damaged to stop calling its operations center and instead call Traveler's Insurance at 800-238-6225 and follow the prompts to file "business claims."

The insurance company is handling claims on behalf of Marino Transport Services of Stevensville, Md., which operates the truck.

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Robert Kuttner: American Policy Made in China

Last week, President Obama forcefully declared that the United States would not withdraw from the Asia-Pacific, telling the Australian Parliament that he was dispatching 2,500 Marines as well as ships and aircraft to serve at a base in the Australian port of Darwin. The message, in case anybody missed it, was unmistakably directed at China.

But while Obama was making symbolic military gestures, his administration was doing nothing serious to contest China's growing threat to America's economic base. That threat is spelled out in an official government document that should be mandatory reading for all of us -- the annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released last Thursday.

What's noteworthy is that this is a bipartisan commission created by Congress, and that all of its 12 commissioners, six Republicans and six Democrats, signed off on the report.

The basic findings: China is a mercantilist and authoritarian state that is determined to appropriate not only U.S. jobs but also U.S. advanced technology through illegal subsidies, suppression of worker rights, and deals with U.S. industry that are one part lucrative carrot (cheap wages, state capital) and one part illegal stick (if you want to do business in China, take a Chinese partner and share your trade secrets). Even then, you must produce mainly for export back to the U.S., not for sale in China.

Worse still, U.S. industry has been happy to take these deals, which makes them a domestic ally of the China lobby. While our government periodically makes half-hearted complaints that the Chinese currency, the Renminbi, is seriously undervalued, American corporations like that just fine -- because it makes their exports to the U.S. from Chinese factories even cheaper. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which fights industrial policy at home, lobbies fiercely against any pressure from Washington against Beijing's mercantilism.

So while the Obama administration flails around with small-bore military gestures and bipartisan free trade deals with smaller countries, it does not dare to challenge the grand bargain America's corporations have made with China, or China's own illicit policies.

Among the Commission's more important findings:

The U.S.-China trade gap continues to widen, especially in advanced technology. China sold the US $81 billion in advanced technology products in the 12 months ending last August, and imported just $13.4 billion worth. The total trade deficit with China was a record $273 billion, more than half of America's total trade deficit with the world. By mid-2011, China's overall trade surplus of $3.2 trillion was up $800 billion in just a single year.

Although China agreed in 2001 to stop explicitly requiring foreign companies to surrender their technology to China in return for market access and investment opportunities, the government in Beijing still employs several tactics to coerce foreign firms to share trade secrets with Chinese competitors. China's industrial policy in general and its indigenous innovation policy in particular seek to circumvent accepted intellectual property protections and to extort technology from U.S. companies.

These requirements and extortions explicitly violate prohibitions of the World Trade Organization.

China is becoming a national security threat, both because it is an increasingly important player in the supply chain for advanced components no longer made in the U.S., and because of its sophistication in cyber-warfare:

The U.S. government, foreign governments, defense contractors, commercial entities, and various nongovernmental organizations experienced a substantial volume of actual and attempted network intrusions that appear to originate in China. Of concern to U.S. military operations, China has identified the U.S. military's reliance on information systems as a significant vulnerability and seeks to use Chinese cyber capabilities to achieve strategic objectives and significantly degrade U.S. forces' ability to operate.

Despite the threatening and unpredictable conduct of North Korea, the Chinese Communist Party appears to have calculated that its interests are better served by the support of the [North Korean] regime than by its removal. Likewise, China's relationship with Iran undermines international efforts to curtail Iran's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and support of international terrorism.

China continues to be an autocratic, one-party state that brutally represses dissent, even as it becomes a more effective state-led, pseudo-capitalist world power. Despite China's increasing productivity, the Chinese government suppresses domestic consumption so that it can have ultra-low wages and cheap capital to build its economic machine and bribe American industry to collaborate with its mercantilism. Its state-owned industry sector is still immense, as its favoritism for domestic companies in its public procurement.

Because of the American reliance on Chinese capital to finance the U.S. public debt and American capital markets and because so many of our largest corporations have made their separate peace with the Chinese regime, we may have already reached a tipping point where Washington is unwilling to make more than token complaints that Beijing knows not to take seriously. Though China's suppression of the value of its currency has been thoroughly documented, Treasury Secretary Geithner has repeatedly refused to formally cite China as a currency manipulator, which would compel the U.S. government to pursue sanctions.

While the West teeters on the brink of a second recession and perhaps a collapse of the Euro, China's autocratic state capitalism is largely unchallenged by either the U.S. or Europe. After the most recent European summit meeting desperately sought to cobble together a new bailout fund, European leaders went hat in hand to Beijing, where they were told in no uncertain terms that if they wanted China's help, they needed to stop pressing trade complaints and change China's status from "non-market" to "market" economy. This is how China exercises its immense leverage to tilt the playing field even more extremely in Beijing's favor.

As the Commission reports, this is the 10th year of China's provisional membership in the World Trade Organization. Though the U.S. government and others still have some leverage to change China's behavior, if they choose to use it, the Commission reports that China hopes gradually to "strong-arm its way into market economy status, and shake free of restrictive terms and obligations in its [WTO] accession agreement."

Many Americans naively emphasize China's great progress in improving its educational system. While we can only applaud the social strides China has made, the source of America's growing economic disadvantage vis-?-vis Beijing lies elsewhere.

While Republicans and Democrats elsewhere agree on nothing, all commission members after extensive testimony and study agreed on the mounting threat of Chinese mercantilism. The problem is that other Republicans and Democrats -- such as those in Congress and in the White House, have a much more benign view of the Chinese government and continue to naively promote a "free trade" that China doesn't practice.

And while U.S. industry occasionally complains about the outright theft of intellectual property, for the most part the largest corporations like the deal they have with its outsourcing, its cheap and docile labor and its capital subsidies by the Chinese government. The Commission reports that this costs the U.S. between 600,000 and 2.4 million jobs.

It is ironic that both the Republican jingoism, support for expanded democracy overseas, and saber rattling against other perceived threats, and the Obama administration's desire to look credibly tough in the Pacific, both stop well short of defending America's real national interests against Beijing.

As for those 2,400 Marines soon shipping out to Australia, they just might have the sweetest posting of any U.S. servicemen and women anywhere. Reenlistments should be no problem. Our newly truculent policy toward China might as well be called "Throw another shrimp on the barbie."

Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. His latest book is A Presidency in Peril.

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US, Britain, Canada team up on new Iran sanctions (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The Obama administration is announcing new sanctions on Iran's energy and financial sectors to pressure Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program.

The U.S. sanctions target Iran's oil and petrochemicals industry and Iranian companies involved in nuclear procurement. The U.S. is declaring Iran's banking system a center for money laundering, without initiating new punishment against it. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (GYT'-nur) says the label is a stern warning to financial institutions around the world to think twice before doing business with Iran.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Iran continues to flout international requirements related to its disputed nuclear program. Iran claims its program is peaceful. Clinton points to a U.N. report that suggests continued development of nuclear weapons.

Britain and Canada also took action Monday.

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Thwarted internationally, the Obama administration cobbled together a new set of best-available sanctions against Iran on Monday that underlined its limited capacity to force Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program. The U.S. action was coordinated with Britain and Canada, but not with countries such as Russia and China that have far greater economic investments in the Islamic republic.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner were to present the American measures later in the day, and officials said they would target Iranian companies, the hardline Revolutionary Guard force and Iran's petrochemicals sector. The restrictions aren't expected to break new ground, instead representing a piecemeal addition to several rounds of American measures already in place to isolate Iran's economy.

The American dilemma is twofold: After the three decades of economic estrangement and escalating pressure on Tehran for its dismal human rights record and alleged support for terrorism, the United States has few tools left to coerce or penalize the Iranian regime. And Washington is unlikely to authorize a military strike anytime soon, conscious that an attack may delay but not stop Iran from developing the bomb and fearful of the political fallout at a time when the U.S. is flailing in debt and trying to transition from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Still, Monday's coordinated actions among the United States and its two close allies represent the first direct response to a recent report by the U.N. nuclear agency suggesting Iranian work toward the development of atomic weapons. The report's release has sparked frenzied international diplomacy over how to halt the Iranian threat, including speculation in the U.S., Europe and Israel on the merits of a military intervention.

For the Obama administration, even the sanctions route is constrained. The United Nations has passed four rounds of global sanctions against Iran since 2006, but veto-wielding nations Russia and China stand in the way of any further action. And even unilaterally, American officials have held back from blanketing all of Iran's fuel-related exports and its central bank with sanctions, for fear of spiking world oil prices and hampering the American economic recovery.

A little more than a week ago, President Barack Obama pressed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao to join the U.S. and its partners in taking action ? to no avail.

Britain's new restrictions included an order that its financial institutions cease doing business with all Iranian banks, including the central bank and extending to all branches and subsidiaries. It amounted to what was termed an unprecedented British attempt to cut off an entire country's banking industry off from the U.K. financial sector.

The sanctions are aimed at "preventing the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons," British Treasury chief George Osborne said. He said they also were designed to shield Britain's financial sector from exposure to Iranian money laundering and terrorism financing, without offering specifics. A statement made no references to Washington's allegation of an Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.

Canada was also expected to announce new measures against Iran, while France urged fellow European countries and Japan to stop buying Iranian oil and to freeze any assets belonging to Iran's central bank.

Russia, China, India and other nations maintain larger-scale trade with Iran, whose energy exports have helped it shrug off serious harm from the U.N. sanctions and other penalties applied by individual countries or the European Union.

The report released two weeks ago by the International Atomic Energy Agency alleges Iran has been seeking to acquire equipment and weapons design information, testing high explosives and detonators and developing computer models of a warhead's core. It is the strongest evidence yet that the Iranian program ranges far beyond enriching uranium for use in energy and medical research, as Iran's government insists.

The Obama administration has sought to use the evidence as leverage in making its case to other countries that sanctions against Iran should be expanded and tightened. It has argued that further isolating Iran's economy is the best strategy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, while insisting that the option of using force will not be taken off the table.

The president's strategy is being carried out amid partisan clamor for tougher action against Iran. Leading Republican presidential candidates present themselves as hawkish alternatives to Obama ready to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. They've also tried to strip away Obama's support among Jewish and some evangelical voters by pledging stronger solidarity with Israel, which sees Iran and its nuclear program as a mortal threat.

Mitt Romney spoke openly at the GOP's Nov. 12 foreign policy debate about working with insurgents to try to overthrow Iran's government, while rival Newt Gingrich demanded increased covert action to foil its uranium enrichment activity. The program has been hindered in recent years by the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, a virulent computer virus and other possible interference ? which may or may not have been the result of covert American or Israeli activity.

The new penalties were being announced one day ahead of another GOP debate focused on foreign policy.

In Congress, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell proposed an amendment last week to the U.S. defense budget to sanction Iran's Central Bank beyond existing U.S. sanctions. That might be difficult because it would also penalize European, Asian and other companies conducting business with the bank and also operating in the United States. Some fear it could drive up oil prices as well and cause havoc to world markets.

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Are You Part Of The 'Worried Well?' How To Alleviate Health Anxiety

By Nadia Goodman For YouBeauty

Do you worry about your health? Would you say you?re pretty healthy?

That?s how neurologist and author Robert Burton, M.D., began our conversation about the "worried well" -- people who are basically healthy but worry that they?re not doing everything they should be to stay well.

(I answered yes to both questions.)

I?m not alone. "The worried well is most of us," says Burton. "It?s a normal state." An educated, health-concerned and well-read bunch, the worried well often misinterpret normal symptoms as signs of larger problems.

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Take depression, for example.

You?re watching TV when a depression commercial comes on asking if you experience sadness, lack of interest, trouble concentrating. (Oh, you do? You and everyone else.) With such a generic symptom list, the worried well may wonder if their daily ups and downs are signs of a mental health problem?which most likely isn?t the case.

Carol Greenwood, Ph.D., a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, works with older populations and finds many of the worried well among them. "They?re really concerned that any sign or symptom might suggest that they?re moving into an age-related disorder," she says. Memory loss is one of the biggest triggers for this type of anxiety, where ordinary forgetfulness might be interpreted as an early sign of dementia.

"The worried well often over-interpret the ordinary," says Burton. Whether an irregular heartbeat or a forgotten appointment gives you a rush of anxiety, both are just par for the course. No second opinions or witty last words needed.

YouBeauty Wellness Advisor Beth Ricanati, M.D., aims to help the worried well breathe easier. She encourages patients to focus on the big picture instead of beating themselves up about the details. "When we lose the big picture, we try to micromanage our health," says Ricanati. "Is it really the blueberries that are so good or is it that they?re part of a bigger, well-balanced diet? It?s about the way these different substances interact together."
When we?re bombarded with questionably reliable headlines like, "The Blueberry Drink That Can Shrink Tumors," or "The Secret to Eternal Youth? Try a Tomato," it?s easy to believe that we?re choosing between life and death every time we push our shopping carts past the produce aisle.

What the news sources rarely explain is that there are plenty of other ways to get the same nutrients. "We end up studying single foods in isolation because it?s the only way we can design a good experiment," says Greenwood, noting that this often skews our perspective. "There?s no question that blueberries have a lot of antioxidants, but we ignore all the other fruits and vegetables that also do. A healthy diet is more than just a blueberry."

Believing that eating blueberries is all it takes to be your family?s first centenarian is a seductive proposition. "Everybody wants that magic bullet," says Ricanati. "Is it vitamin D? Is it acai? That [search] is not really practical at the end of the day."

Recently, Burton had a conversation with a 72-year-old Harvard law school graduate (a really smart guy, by all accounts). Every day, he goes mountain biking for two hours then goes hiking then plays basketball then does yoga. (Whew!) When asked how he feels, he says, "I?m f---ing exhausted." (No kidding.) He has no free time and his legs feel like concrete, but still he perseveres. "His whole goal in life is to live longer," says Burton, who points out that we all eventually lose that battle.

Ricanati would rather people focus on living well, rather than living longer. "You can only do so much," she says. "You can control whether you remember to pack your lunch or if you stop at McDonald?s. But if you?re worrying about whether you took your twenty vitamins, I think you?re missing the big picture. Sitting down to dinner with your family or thanking the gardener is just as important for your overall wellness." In other words, don?t miss the present because you?re busy freaking out about the future.

Follow these quick tips to alleviate health anxiety:

1. Know your body. "You need a general understanding of your body," says Burton. He recommends taking an introductory anatomy course or subscribing to a trusted newsletter like the Harvard Health Letter. "Over time, you?ll build up a fact base and that will help you know when to worry."

2. Limit your supplements. If you already have a healthy diet, then taking a handful of supplements every morning can be overload. "You can get into the toxic range, over and above the upper limit of intake," says Greenwood. Instead, ask your doctor before taking a supplement and focus your energy on eating a healthy, balanced diet.

3. Keep your self-talk positive. We?re constantly reminded of our health, so worrying is natural. Instead of telling yourself that your headache is probably a brain tumor, take a breath. "The healthy state is to be able to tell yourself, that?s just me worrying," says Burton.

4. Ignore the headlines. "If you read the sensationalist headlines every day, then today it would be blueberries and tomorrow it would be something else," says Ricanati. "You?d drive yourself mad." Instead, take a more moderate approach. "Try to get all your nutrients through food, be mindful of your physical activity, remember to use your breath." In short: Be reasonable.

5. Don't worry about the details. "The worried well are more likely to pick up a tomato and worry about whether it counts as one or two servings," says Greenwood. Instead, she recommends looking at your plate to make sure that most of it is filled up with fresh fruits and vegetables. No need to get any more obsessive than that.

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Wired to cheat? (We're looking at you, Ashton)

Demi and Ashton - you don?t really need their last names, do you? - have called it quits, following rumors of his infidelity. While most of us want our mates to be true to only us, are we really built for monogamy? Sexual health expert Brian Alexander weighs in.

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Side Effects May Spur Men to Drop Tamoxifen for Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- One in five male breast cancer patients stops taking the drug tamoxifen early due to side effects caused by the medicine and may be at increased risk for cancer recurrence, new research suggests.

Tamoxifen is the standard of care for the hormone treatment of male breast cancer patients, according to the authors of a new report published in the Nov. 16 issue of the Annals of Oncology.

In the study, researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston examined the records of 64 male breast cancer patients who received tamoxifen for an average of four years and found that 34 of them (53 percent) experienced one or more tamoxifen-related side effects, such as weight gain and loss of sex drive.

Thirteen (20.3 percent) of the patients stopped taking tamoxifen due to the side effects. Nine of the patients died after they discontinued tamoxifen early, the study authors noted in a journal news release.

"This is the largest study to specifically assess tamoxifen-related side effects in men because in our institution we treated a relatively large number of male breast cancer patients," study author Dr. Naveen Pemmaraju said in the news release.

"We found that, after adjusting for patient age and stage of the disease, the prognosis for men with breast cancer is similar to that of women. Tamoxifen has been shown to improve survival rates for breast cancer patients, so early discontinuations may have the potential to increase the risk of the cancer recurring in this group of male breast cancer patients," he added.

"Male breast cancer is a very rare and unique cancer affecting approximately 2,000 men in the U.S.A. per year. As there are so few male breast cancer cases, clinical practice and optimal treatment strategies have been extrapolated from female breast cancer patients with very little published evidence to guide clinical decisions. In our institution, we noted that several of our male patients were having difficulty with taking tamoxifen therapy, and these side effects appeared to be a little bit different to those reported with women receiving the same drug," Pemmaraju continued.

"The results of this study should not change the recommendation for prescribing tamoxifen for male breast cancer patients. However, clinicians need to be aware of the possible side effects that men may experience when receiving tamoxifen so that the patients can be counseled appropriately," he added.

In the United States, about 2,140 new cases of invasive breast cancer in men will be diagnosed this year and about 450 men will die of the disease.

More information

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more about male breast cancer.

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Android Market on the Kindle Fire? Done!

T'was only a matter of time, right? The Android Market -- and all of its hidden secrets apps -- now runs just fine on the Amazon Kindle Fire. There are a couple of caveats (albeit not huge ones) if you want to get this done. You're going to need to root your Kindle Fire, and you're going to need to be a little familiar with file explorers and apps permissions. Hardly insurmountable stuff, though, and the whole process takes just a few minutes. Hit the link below for full instructions.

Source: XDA Developers; via Kindle Fire Forums

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Strangers who helped each other reunite

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AP

In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada sits in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude to first responders and to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who administered CPR minutes after he helped her change a tire. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)

In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada sits in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude to first responders and to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who administered CPR minutes after he helped her change a tire. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)

In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Sara Berg hugs Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude to first responders and to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who administered CPR minutes after he helped her change a tire. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)

In this photo provided by Mayo Clinic Health System, Sara Berg talks with Victor Giesbrecht of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in his hospital room on Nov. 16, 2011 in Eau Claire, Wis. Giesbrecht and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of Interstate 94 with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over and helped change their flat tire. Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn?t breathing, she started CPR. (AP Photo/Mayo Clinic Health System)

Victor and Ann Giesbrecht of Wiinipeg, Canada have a reunion in Eau Claire, Wis., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 with the people involved with saving his life after he suffered cardiac arrest Nov. 5, 2011 while driving on Interstate 94. Sara Berg, left, who assisted Berg early with a flat tire, Performed CPR on Victor until law enforcement arrived. Berg is a certified nursing assistant with Mayo Clinic Health System. (AP Photo/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Shane Opatz)

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) ? A motorist who had a heart attack but was kept alive by a stranger whom just minutes earlier he had stopped to help along a Wisconsin interstate has had a tearful reunion with that woman and the first responders who saved his life.

Victor Giesbrecht, 61, expressed his gratitude Wednesday to Sara Berg, the Eau Claire woman who performed CPR on him just a few miles further along the Interstate 94 from where he had helped her to change a tire.

"He said 'thank you' and we hugged, then we both started crying," Berg told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. First responders also attended the reunion at Giesbrecht's room at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire. Giesbrecht hoped to be released Thursday.

Giesbrecht, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and his wife, Ann, were driving to Indiana Nov. 5 when they saw Berg, 40, and her cousin, Lisa Meier, stopped on the side of the interstate with a flat tire. Giesbrecht pulled over, retrieved a jack from his pickup and helped change the flat.

Minutes after driving away, Giesbrecht suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness. His wife brought their pickup to a stop and called 911. Then along came the women whom Giesbrecht had just helped. When Berg, a certified nursing assistant, discovered that Giesbrecht wasn't breathing, she started CPR. First responders arrived a short time later and used an automated external defibrillator to restore a normal heart rhythm.

"If she wouldn't have come along, I don't think we'd be here right now," Giesbrecht said.

Associated Press

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Congress moves to end Fannie, Freddie bonuses (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Congress is seeking to end the practice of paying million-dollar bonuses to executives at government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The House Financial Services Committee approved legislation Tuesday that would suspend tens of millions in Fannie and Freddie executive compensation packages, stop future bonuses and align their salaries with other federal employees who make much less. The vote was 52-4, with strong support from both parties.

The Senate is expected to take up a similar measure. Lawmakers say the legislation limiting pay at the bailed-out firms could be sent to President Barack Obama by the end of this year.

The government rescued Washington-based Fannie and McLean, Va.-based Freddie three years ago after they nearly folded because of big losses on risky mortgages they purchased. Taxpayers have spent about $170 billion to rescue the two firms, the most expensive bailout of the 2008 financial crisis.

The government estimates the bailout could reach up to $220 billion through 2014.

"These lavish compensation packages and bonuses are unfair, unreasonable and unjust to the taxpayers whose assistance is the only thing keeping Fannie and Freddie afloat," said Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), chairman of the House committee.

Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said the executives were hired after the companies were taken over by the government in 2008. After the takeover, the salaries for those positions were reduced by an average of 40 percent and some senior positions were eliminated, he said.

DeMarco told the Senate Banking Committee that bonuses are being used to keep talented executives with the companies. Without them, taxpayers would incur greater losses.

"The people who are there now did not choose government jobs," he said. "A sudden and sharp change in pay would certainly risk a substantial exodus of talent, the best leaving first in many instances."

Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee about half of all mortgages in the U.S., or nearly 31 million home loans. Along with other federal agencies, they backed nearly 90 percent of new mortgages over the past year.

This month, Fannie asked for $7.8 billion and Freddie requested $6 billion in extra aid to cover large quarterly losses, mostly caused by low mortgage rates reducing profits.

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Packers Beat Vikings 45-7: Aaron Rodgers Throws 4 TDs, Green Bay Remains Perfect

GREEN BAY, Wis. ? Another night, another four-touchdown performance for Aaron Rodgers ? just about what the Green Bay Packers have come to expect from their superstar quarterback.

The real surprise came on the other side of the ball: A defense that finally showed it can take charge of a game.

The Packers (9-0) remain the NFL's lone undefeated team. And if they now can count on a defense to complement their high-octane offense, they just might be unstoppable.

Rodgers threw for four scores against a fierce Vikings pass rush, Randall Cobb returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown and the Packers defense contained Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings in a 45-7 victory on Monday night.

Green Bay's defense came into the game giving up nearly 300 yards passing per game, second-most in the NFL. Their last time out, the Packers nearly blew a big lead in the fourth quarter at San Diego, holding on for a 45-38 victory.

But the Packers finally played to their potential against the division rival Vikings (2-7), holding rookie quarterback Christian Ponder to 190 yards passing with an interception and limiting Peterson to 51 yards and a touchdown.

The Vikings' defense did its best to rough up Rodgers, sacking him three times and hitting him hard virtually every time he took off running. Defensive end Jared Allen harassed Rodgers at every turn.

The pressure didn't force any uncharacteristic mistakes from Rodgers, who was 23 of 30 for 250 yards without an interception. Rodgers threw a pair of touchdown passes to Jordy Nelson, and also found Greg Jennings and John Kuhn for scores.

Packers coach Mike McCarthy put backup quarterback Matt Flynn in the game with 10:30 left in the fourth quarter ? and the Vikings couldn't keep him out of the end zone, either, as he scrambled 3 yards for a touchdown with 4:27 left.

But it was Cobb, a second-round rookie out of Kentucky, who got it all started for the Packers.

After the Packers' defense forced the Vikings to go three-and-out on their first possession, Cobb fielded a punt from Chris Kluwe and squeezed through a seam in the middle of the field.

Cobb accelerated down the left sideline and danced the final few steps into the end zone, tossing the ball in the air as if he was shooting a basketball before doing a "Lambeau leap" into the stands.

Cobb also had a 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the Packers' season opener against the New Orleans Saints.

Rodgers finally got the ball at the 9:55 mark in the first quarter and directed an 11-play, 70-yard drive that included conversions on third-and-8, to Donald Driver, and third-and-7, to running back James Starks. Rodgers then finished the drive with a perfect pass to Jennings in the middle of the field for a touchdown, and the Packers led 14-0.

With the Vikings driving near the end of the first quarter, Charles Woodson wrestled a ball away from Visanthe Shiancoe for what initially was ruled an interception. Vikings coach Leslie Frazier challenged the call and it was overturned, giving Ryan Longwell a shot at a 47-yard field goal.

But the Vikings committed a penalty, and Longwell came up just short on a 52-yard attempt.

Rodgers then put together another drive, and Rodgers hit tight end Jermichael Finley for 25 yards on a fourth-and-5 conversion attempt at the Vikings 34-yard line. Allen sacked Rodgers on first-and-goal, and the Packers ended up settling for a 25-yard field goal by Mason Crosby to take a 17-0 lead with 12:04 left before halftime.

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Ore. man delays Iraq lawn-chair balloon flight

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? Oregon's "lawn-chair balloonist" has put off his flight in Iraq until next year.

Kent Couch made headlines worldwide in 2008 when he flew a lawn chair supported by more than 150 helium-filled party balloons from the parking lot of the gas station he owns in Bend, Ore., to an Idaho field 235 miles east.

He had planned another balloon flight Tuesday in Baghdad along with Iraqi daredevil Fareed Lafta.

But a statement Monday from spokesman Mark Knowles says the two have delayed the flight until March to accommodate a number of groups that want to use it to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi orphans.

Associated Press

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Hey, Why Are You Crying?

Depression. It's inexplicable. It just happens. And you can't shake it. At least not quickly. "Allie," who's got a blog, Hyperbole and a Half, tells about her experience, and she does it beautifully, in an unlikely form: the comic. The images are hers. The words, too.

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Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason.

It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it - you can listen to sad music and imagine yourself as the protagonist in a dramatic movie. You can gaze out the window while you're crying and think "This is so sad. I can't even believe how sad this whole situation is. I bet even a reenactment of my sadness could bring an entire theater audience to tears."

But my sadness didn't have a purpose. Listening to sad music and imagining that my life was a movie just made me feel kind of weird because I couldn't really get behind the idea of a movie where the character is sad for no reason.

Essentially, I was being robbed of my right to feel self pity, which is the only redeeming part of sadness.

And for a little bit, that was a good enough reason to pity myself.

Standing around feeling sorry for myself was momentarily exhilarating, but I grew tired of it quickly. "That will do," I thought. "I've had my fun, let's move on to something else now." But the sadness didn't go away.

I tried to force myself to not be sad.

But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work.

When I couldn't will myself to not be sad, I became frustrated and angry. In a final, desperate attempt to regain power over myself, I turned to shame as a sort of motivational tool.

But, since I was depressed, this tactic was less inspirational and more just a way to oppress myself with hatred.

Which made me more sad.

I'm going to break off here, but if you go to her website, you'll see that as Allie struggles, her frustration mounts, she gets angry, then numb, then she sort of empties out and then she has a breakthrough.

She's standing in a video store looking, she says, like an "Eskimo vagrant," being gaped at by another customer, when something happens. The nice thing about her blog is you can see it happen. You can watch "how my depression got so horrible that it actually broke through to the other side and became a sort of fear-proof exoskeleton."

It's something to see.

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I don't know diddleysquat about Allie. She chooses not to tell. But her website is filled with strange adventures; her discovery that she's a cake-o-holic, and the cake she is desperate to eat has been baked for her Grandpa's birthday. There's another one about her fear that her dog may not be smart enough to exist. The not-so-secret thing about Allie is that even when she's desperately sad, she's still slyly, eloquently funny (and she let me share this cartoon).

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/11/14/142240325/hey-why-are-you-crying?ft=1&f=1007

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iTunes Match Temporarily Overwhelmed by Huge Demand [ITunes]

iTunes Match is finally here, although it looks like your months-long wait might be extended a bit. Turns out that due to excessive demand, Apple is temporarily blocking new registrations. More »

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A look at key moments in Republican debate

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidates former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, left, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, businessman Herman Cain, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, pose before a Republican presidential debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, talk during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain speaks during a Republican Presidential Debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) ? Key moments in Saturday night's Republican presidential debate:

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IRAN:

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney warned that only his administration could prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," Romney said. "And if we elect Mitt Romney, if you'd like me as the next president, they will not have a nuclear weapon."

Herman Cain said he supports regime change in Iran, but stopped short of threatening military action. He favors moving warships to the region to deter Iran and would support the resistance to Tehran to overthrow the regime.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said America should sanction the Iranian central bank to "shut down that country's economy. And that's what the president needs to do."

And rival Ron Paul, a congressman from Texas, says any use of force against Iran would require approval from Congress.

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PERRY'S GAFFE:

Perry poked fun at himself again for forgetting about the Department of Energy during the last debate when he tried to name the three agencies he'd cut.

On this night, Perry said he was glad that moderator Scott Pelley of CBS News remembered to ask him about the Energy Department. The moderator said he's had some time to think about it.

"Me too," Perry cracked back, drawing laughs from the knowing audience.

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DON'T BAIT NEWT:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich ? who is rising in polls ? refused to take the bait when asked to evaluate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who leads the GOP field in polls.

"No," Gingrich said.

When the moderator noted that Gingrich had been willing to criticize Romney the night before, Gingrich responded: "Yesterday, I was on a national radio show."

He took a pass on this night, adding: "We're here tonight talking about how every one of us is better than President Obama."

Gingrich called Romney "a friend who's a great businessman" and "a great improvement over Obama."

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HOME STATE SENATORS:

Toward the end of the debate, South Carolina's junior and senior U.S. senator took over the questioning ? and used the opportunity to raise their pet issues.

Sen. Lindsay Graham pressed the candidates on the prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as on interrogation techniques and military tribunals ? topics he's long worked on in the Senate.

Sen. Jim DeMint asked the candidates what programs they'd cut to bring down the debt ? perhaps the top issue among fans of the tea party.

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WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE ON TV:

As the debate began, someone shouted: "The military loves Ron Paul!"

Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor who left office in disgrace after acknowledging an affair with an Argentine woman, was on hand.

Gingrich got a strong reaction from the crowd with one word: "No." He refused to criticize Romney in front of this audience as he did earlier this week in questioning Romney's ability to think outside the box.

Associated Press

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