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Best diet: low calorie
Its obvious that there are many diets that are said to work, such as the low carb or low fat diets. Those are in fact just fad diets. The ultimate way to lose weight is to reduce your calorie intake. The less you consume the less work you have to do to burn it off.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_he_me/med_dueling_diets
Magnets messing with Alligators tracking system
To relieve neighborhoods from alligators wildlife managers are capturing them, temporarily putting magnets on both sides of the alligators head and releasing them in new places. It is said that alligators using the Earths magnetic fields to navigate so this disorients them and they become completely lost.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090225/od_nm/us_magnets_odd
Global warming consequences increase
We all knew that global warming was taking effect, but recently it has taken a turn for the worst. Scientist have noticed a pattern in the weather lately and noticed that it is getting to warm to fast. If this continues the average temperatures will increase by 1.6 to 3.4 degrees in the next 5 years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update
Anti-drug sweep
750 people have been arrested in Mexico after police found them trafficking drugs in the United States and Mexico. Police found 12,000 kilos of cocaine and 1.3 million ecstasy pills along with other drugs such as Methamphetamine. Mexico has lately been hit hard with drugs and drug dealers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090225/ts_alt_afp/usmexicodrugsjustice