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People who follow the Paleo diet often do so for health reasons, eschewing many carbs, especially grains, in favor of lean meats and vegetables. Now, research indicates that this “caveman” style of eating may have hidden dangers to your heart health. The Paleo diet, which draws nutritional guidelines from the diets of our human ancestors, advocates eating like a hunter and gatherer—consuming lots of meat, vegetables, nuts, and some fruits—while excluding agriculturally-based foods such as grains, legumes, and dairy, along with refined sugar and processed oils. Though no one would argue the nutritional merits of vegetables and lean protein, pulling...

Kurt H. Becker, a professor in the Department of Applied Physics and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and WeiDong Zhu, a research associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, are helping develop a new colloidal gold test strip for cardiac troponin I (cTn-I) detection. The new strip uses microplasma-generated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and shows much higher detection sensitivity than conventional test strips. The new cTn-I test is based on the specific immune-chemical reactions between antigen and antibody on immunochromatographic test strips using AuNPs. Compared to AuNPs produced by traditional chemical methods, the surfaces of the...

JACKSON, Mississippi — NFL legend Brett Favre has endorsed the re-election of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), cutting a television ad for the six-term incumbent days ahead of a runoff election against Tea Party-backed state senator Chris McDaniel. “I’ve learned through football that strong leadership makes the difference between winning and losing. And when it comes to our state’s future, trust me: Mississippi can win — and win big with Thad Cochran as our strong voice in Washington,” Favre says in the ad. “Thad Cochran always delivers, just like he did during Katrina.” But a drunk-driving accident involving Favre's brother and...

She was an attorney at a big Chicago law firm. He was a Harvard Law student who landed a job there as a summer associate. He was immediately smitten. She wasn't so sure. But he won her over, and the couple sealed their budding romance with a kiss at the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop in Hyde Park. So goes the story of how Michelle and Barack Obama fell in love in 1989. And on Wednesday, a historical marker went up at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and 53rd Street noting the exact location where the couple had their first...

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the street named after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will soon bear a marker commemorating the burning of Atlanta. The Georgia Historical Society will install the historical marker Monday in front of the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it doesn’t mind remembering history, but it would have preferred a different location.

Perhaps parents need to check supply lists and backpacks before sending their students back to school after winter break. A 13-year-old was arrested Friday in Oklahoma City, accused of violating a little-known city ordinance that prohibits possession of a permanent marker in some circumstances. The teen was caught using a permanent marker at Roosevelt Middle School by a teacher, according to the crime report filed with the Oklahoma City Police Department. Delynn Woodside noted the marker had bled through a piece of paper onto the desk and reported to a police officer that she also had seen the teen writing...

CARROLL, Iowa -- Police said they had no trouble identifying two men accused of trying to break into a Carroll apartment. Police were responding to a call about an attempted burglary when they pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects' vehicle. Inside the car, officers found two men with their faces blackened with permanent marker. Police said the caller described two men with painted faces attempting to break into an apartment Friday night before driving off. Twenty-three-year-old Matthew McNelly and 20-year-old Joey Miller were arrested at gunpoint after officers were told they might be armed. Neither man had a...

WASHINGTON – Governments that receive donations of Ten Commandments displays and other monuments for public parks are not compelled to take everything they are offered, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The court said that a small religious group, the Summum, cannot force Pleasant Grove City, Utah, to place its granite marker in a park that has been home to a Ten Commandments monument for 38 years. Officials do not violate free speech rights when they reject requests to display monuments, Justice Samuel Alito said in his opinion for the court. "It is hard to imagine how a public park...

3rd Grader Suspended for Sniffing Shirt with Permanent MarkerBy SEAN TOBIN, Reporter Last Edited: Friday, 04 Apr 2008, 4:08 AM MDT Eight-year-old Eathen Harris was suspended from school after writing on his shirt with a permanent marker and then sniffing it. April 3, 2008. WESTMINSTER - Eight-year-old Eathen Harris says it happened in writing class last week. That's when he colored a stripe on his shirt with a permanent magic marker. But, it's what this 3rd grader did after he colored that landed him in hot water. "I smelled the marker," Harris said. But, what this 8-year-old doesn't know is...

IT HAS now become less politically risky for Democrats to accept gay marriage than to support taxing the richest 1 percent of Americans. And that reality speaks volumes about the Democratic dilemma. On Wednesday, Senate Republicans offered a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that they knew had no chance of passage. Their purpose was simple and cynical: Rally the faltering Republican hard-core base, and force a vote that they hoped would embarrass Democrats. The constitutional measure, which required 67 votes to pass, got only 49. Just one Democrat, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, supported it. Seven Republicans, including all five New...

TALLINN. Aug 12 (Interfax) - A monument in Tartu in Estonia commemorating about 2,000 Soviet troops killed in 1944 was vandalized early on Friday, said an activist in Estonia's Russian-speaking community. Obscene graffiti was placed on the monument with red paint, Gennady Sukhov, a leader of the Estonian Council of Russian Communities and a member of the Tartu City Assembly, told Interfax. "This is not the first instance of vandalism - there were instances earlier where granite slabs were chopped off the monument, but we put everything back in order with our own resources," he said. The incident had been...

Kindly accept this note concerning the matter of Tullahoma's having a historic marker celebrating the Army of Tennessee and its headquartering in Tullahoma in the first six months of 1863. That marker is proposed to be located in the South Jackson Civic Center Park (the Public Square in Tullahoma's original plat and town plan). This note is an explanation of some of the marker's importance to me as a lover of local history and historic preservation, a fan of the Army of Tennessee, a proud Coffee Countian and a booster of Heritage Tourism in our part of Middle Tennessee. I...