Thursday
show 07-30-15
Families
face tough decisions as cost of elder care soars
Doris
Ranzman had followed the expert advice, planning ahead in case she
wound up unable to care for herself one day. But when a nursing-home
bill tops $14,000 a month, the best-laid plans get tossed aside.
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Teens
emergency contraception use increase
The
percentage of teen girls who use emergency contraception, sometimes
referred to as the "morning-after pill," has increased
considerably over the last decade, according to a new report.
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On
June 28, 1914, a young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip
killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo,Bosnia. Taking place against a
backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balkans, the assassination set
off a chain of events that would lead to the start of World War I
barely one month later.
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Graduates
Sue Rolling Stone Over Retracted Rape Story
Three
University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled
in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone
magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the
article's author Wednesday, court records show.
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Stallone
puts 'Rocky,' 'Rambo' memorabilia up for auction
Sylvester
Stallone is parting with memorabilia from the "Rocky" and
"Rambo" movies, but he's keeping the two characters alive
onscreen.
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AP
Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Athletes
competing in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and
boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk
becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an
Associated Press investigation has found.
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Chicago
sheriff puts inmates to work demolishing abandoned buildings
A
Chicago sheriff has a new ally in the battle to rid the city of
abandoned properties that attract squatters, drugs and crime: prison
inmates.
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Navy
admiral confirms US pulling aircraft carrier from Persian Gulf this
fall
The
U.S. Navy will not have an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf this
fall for the first time in years, President Obama's nominee to be the
Navy's top officer told Capitol Hill lawmakers
Thursday.
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Court
dismisses lawsuit seeking person hood for 2 N.Y. chimps
Two
chimpanzees will not be freed from a New York state university where
they're used in locomotion studies after a court decision Thursday
dismissed a lawsuit that had sought to afford them legal personhood
rights.
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