Whites are twice as likely as blacks to have weight-loss surgery and people's views about how obesity affects their quality of life is an important factor in that difference, according to a new study. The researchers interviewed 337 obese ...
First Insight, Inc., a technology company transforming how leading retailers make new product investment and pricing decisions, announced an extended partnership agreement with The Limited, an iconic fashion retailer that offers ...
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A high presence of bacteria at the site where fetal membranes rupture may be the key to understanding why some pregnant women experience their "water breaking" prematurely, researchers at Duke Medicine report. The findings, published ...
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Colo-Colo and Under Armour unveiled the team's new Under Armour kits for the upcoming season. The unveiling also serves as the official announcement of the brand's global partnership and technical sponsorship of the most successful club ...
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An international team of astronomers has discovered a surprising new class of "hypervelocity stars" – solitary stars moving fast enough to escape the gravitational grasp of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of this new set of ...
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HealthDay Reporter Latest MedicineNet News Uninsured Won't Flock to States With Medicaid No Harm From 'Scoop and Run' Police Transport Medicaid Use May Boost ER Visitstudy People Worldwide May Feel Mind-Body Connections Troubled Launch of ...
The Stockmann Group’s preliminary revenue amounted to EUR 232.1 million in December 2013. Excluding the terminated franchising operations in Russia and Finland, revenue was down 6.1 per cent on the previous year. Christmas sales were ...
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Lindex lingerie collections for the spring 2014 season show a wide range of fashion news. “We start the season with romantic style collections. The feeling is soft and very feminine, the prints are often Asian inspired with a ...
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Today in Australia they call it Kauri, in Asia they call it Dammar, and in South America it does not exist at all unless planted there; but 52 million years ago the giant coniferous evergreen tree known to botanists as Agathis thrived in ...
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University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomer Regina Jorgenson has obtained the first image that shows the structure of a normal galaxy in the early universe. The results were presented at the winter American Astronomical Society meeting being ...
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With the advent of New Year, the Makati City’s Yuchengco Museum is gearing up to host a special marketplace, featuring an array of Filipino fabrics, fashion and home décor accessories. Dubbed as Habiness!, the textile ...
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It’s been two and a half years. At Expofil, leader exhibition in the yarns and fibres sector, in February of 2011 Saluzzo Yarns (at that time Filature di Miroglio) announced to the world that from that moment on it would move to the ...
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If you love your iPhone but would prefer a physical keyboard, Typo could be for you. But you might want to order soon. BlackBerry, the company that made physical typing on mobile devices an addictive craze, is suing Typo Products LLC, ...
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There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. The growing use of embedded wearable devices connected to a smartphone is spawning a massive ...
Textile exports from the south Central American country of Bolivia exported textiles worth US$ 26.3 million during the January to November 2013 period, indicating a fall of 50.47 percent year-on-year, as per the data released by National ...
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