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Tips To Reduce Your Cancer Risk (INFOGRAPHIC) →
For every 100 cancer diagnoses, 33 of those cases could have been prevented with simple, healthy lifestyle changes. In the spirit of World Cancer Day, follow the infographic below, from Union for International Cancer Control, to see what you can do to stay healthy.
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BBC News 2011-12-22 - What really caused the eurozone crisis? →
World leaders probably spent more time worrying about the eurozone crisis than anything else in 2011.
And that was in the year that featured the Arab Spring, the Japanese tsunami and the death of Osama Bin Laden. What’s more, 2012 looks set to be not much different. But as eurozone governments hammer out new rules to limit their borrowing, are they missing the point of the crisis?
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Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask | Books | The Observer →
From Wall St to Athens and Occupy sit-ins worldwide, protesters are wearing masks inspired by V for Vendetta. Here, its author discusses why his avenging hero has such potency today
The comic-book writer Alan Moore is not usually surprised when his creations find a life for themselves away from the printed page. Strips he penned in the 1980s and 90s have been fed through the Hollywood patty-maker, never to his great satisfaction, resulting in both critical hits and terrible flops; fads for T-shirts, badges and shouted slogans have emerged from characters and conceits he has dreamed up for titles such as Watchmen and From Hell. “I suppose I’ve gotten used to the fact,” says the 58-year-old, “that some of my fictions percolate out into the material world.”
– a private man with knotty greying hair and a magnificent beard, who prefers to live without an internet connection and who has not had a working telly for months “on an obscure point of principle” about the digital signal in his hometown of Northampton.
Alan Moore at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2010. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian
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Occupy Wall Street Camps in L.A., Philadelphia Brace for Police [SFGate] →
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Occupy Wall Street supporters in Los Angeles and Philadelphia braced for police to force them out of their encampments as deadlines passed without immediate consequence.
Protesters have been camped in the nation’s second- and fifth-most-populous cities since almost the beginning of the movement in New York on Sept. 17. The effort to move them follows confrontations with riot-clad authorities from Manhattan to Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon.
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‘The Umbrella Man’ at the JFK assassination →
On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris takes a critical look at the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.
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