• Raising cash for homeless students0

    After the airing of a '60 Minutes' feature about Central Florida's homeless families (see our Entertainment section for that story), a telethon Monday raised money to help the thousands of homeless students attending Seminole and Orange County schools. This article also talks about the Families in Transition program, which assists homeless children in the Seminole

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  • Raising the Chance of Some Cancers with Two Drinks a Day0

    A new study shows that drinking, even in moderation, can increase a person's risk for a host of cancers, including cancers of the liver, pancreas, throat, etc. For some cancers, such as lung, larynx and colorectal, the cancer risk only sets in when people drink heavily—three or four drinks a day on a regular basis.

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  • Rain Garden Helps Spruce Up Suffolk County Parking Lot0

    Funded mostly by the New York State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, a Riverhead office building recently added a rain garden, the first one on Long Island, to its parking lot. The garden soaks up rain — as much as 3 inches of it — to help stop the flooding that used to happen. Now

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  • Rain Garden Helps Spruce Up Suffolk County Parking Lot0

    Funded mostly by the New York State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, a Riverhead office building recently added a rain garden, the first one on Long Island, to its parking lot. The garden soaks up rain — as much as 3 inches of it — to help stop the flooding that used to happen. Now

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  • Radiation Worries for Children in Dentists’ Chairs0

    Cone-beam technology, a common technology for dental x-rays, has been found by several studies to emit harmful levels of radiation for children. New York Times, 11/22/10

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  • Radiation may up breast cancer risk in some women0

    A study by leading European cancer agencies- published Thursday in the journal BMJ– suggests that mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the disease. The radiation from mammograms might be especially harmful to them, so an MRI

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