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  Female Cheerleaders Show Spirit at Their Own Risk

  Gone are the days of the lighthearted chant and a few waves of the pom-pom. Today’s cheerleaders are under pressure to include basket tosses, X mounts, hitch walls, triples, and other potentially dangerous gymnastics stunts in their routines.

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  Too Hot To Handle: Dangers of Summer Heat

  Many Americans think of Independence Day as the official start of summer vacation, but something else arrived last weekend too: the season’s first heat wave.

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  Watch Out This Holiday: New Intern Ahead!

  It turns out what has long been regarded as urban myth is actually true: July is the most dangerous time to land in one of America’s celebrated teaching hospitals.

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  Did You Feel That? The Earth Just Moved

  At 1:41 pm Eastern Standard Time, a 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit central Canada. According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter was Val des Bois, Quebec.

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  Interview with Roberto Canessa, Andes Plane Crash Survivor

  Book of Odds speaks to Roberto Canessa, one of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571's crash into the Andes Mountains in 1972, which inspired the book and subsequent movie, Alive.

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  Fear of Flying? The Odds of a Plane Crash, and the People Who’ve Survived

  In 1908, Thomas Selfridge, a 26-year-old first lieutenant in the Army, had the dubious distinction of being the first person killed in a plane crash. Since his death, there has not been a single year without an airplane-related fatality somewhere in the world.

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  Blown Apart: When Siblings Kill Each Other

  Almost a quarter of a century after Amy Bishop shot her brother with a 12-gauge shotgun, she has been charged with his murder.

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  The Recession’s Domestic Toll

  Experts say that domestic violence has long been an epidemic in the US, but during this recession shelters and programs nationwide have noticed an upsurge of requests for help.

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  Heroin: A World of Trouble in US Schoolyards

  The prototypical heroin abuser isn’t a junkie shooting up in a back alley any more. The new stereotype? Well-groomed, well-nourished, and most often found in suburban high schools or middle class homes.

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  Summer: Paradise for Paranoids

  Summer’s here, and it's a great time to be alive—literally: June, July, August, and September are when a person is least likely to drop dead. But that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy a good ER visit or two.

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  Summer: Paradise for Paranoids

  Summer’s here, and it's a great time to be alive—literally: June, July, August, and September are when a person is least likely to drop dead. But that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy a good ER visit or two.

  3 months on
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