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TS-Si News Service
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Are you having a hard time stretching your grocery dollars during the current economic downturn? You’re not alone. But before you stop buying fresh fruit, meat, vegetables and other items often perceived as costing a lot, check out these tips from a University of Michigan (U-M) Health System dietitian.
Holly Scherer, R.D., a (U-M) dietitian, offers tips for buying fruit, vegetables, and meat for less money. She says you can follow a few easy guidelines and still buy healthy foods, rather than switching to a diet of potato chips, macaroni and cheese, and a fast-food burger.
She suggests that you make your own coffee, buy fruits and vegetables that are in season, occasionally replace meat with protein sources like eggs and beans, and, no matter how tempting it is, skip the fast-food drive-thru window.
“Hard economic times don’t mean that you have to eat less well,” says Scherer, a health educator with MFit, the health promotion division of the U-M Health System. "By planning ahead, shopping the sales and trying out those generic or store brands you really can save a significant amount of money while also providing healthy, well-balanced food for your family.”
Fruits and vegetables
Scherer debunks a popular myth: produce is too expensive. Wrong, she says. In fact, if you buy fruit and vegetables that are in-season, the price typically is very reasonable, she says. Buying fruit or vegetables by the bag instead of individually also tends to be cheaper.
If the produce you want isn’t in-season, canned and frozen fruits and vegetables can cost less. They are just as nutritious as fresh because they are packaged at their peak of freshness.
If you’re feeling especially frugal – and you have a green
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Pamela M. Prah
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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Washngton, DC, USA. Besides electing a president on Nov. 4, voters in some key battleground states also will face divisive social policy choices, including whether to ban gay marriage in Florida and restrict affirmative action and abortion in Colorado. Michigan voters may be asked to end a 30-year-old ban on stem-cell research that destroys human embryos.
Ohioans may decide whether sick workers should be guaranteed paid leave. Missouri voters’ attitudes toward immigrants will be tested by a measure to declare English the official state language. In Washington, voters may get to weigh whether to join Oregon in legalizing assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
While the race between Republican John McCai
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Pamela M. Prah
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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Washngton, DC, USA. The drumbeat of bad fiscal news from statehouses is intensifying. States collectively faced deficits of $40.3 billion in writing their current budgets — triple the $13 billion shortfall states weathered the previous year, a new report released July 23 shows.
"The overall state fiscal condition changed significantly in the past year, and for the most part deteriorated," Corina Eckl, director of fiscal affairs for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), said as she released the report during the organization’s conference in New Orleans.
State lawmakers knew revenues would drop, but the decline was worse than expected. In April, 23 states had projected budget gaps totaling
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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Springfield, VA, USA. Two graduate students have scored an academic trifecta. They learned how to launch their careers via publish-or-perish principles, google the obvious, and cozy up to transgenders. The results of their efforts (referred to in some circles as, um, research) awaits the unwary in the Journal of Career Development.
The University of Oregon is a public research university and a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), one of only two such universities in the greater Northwest. It is located in Eugene, Oregon, two hours from Portland and one hour each from the Pacific Coast and the Cascade Mountains. The UO library holds 2.6 million volumes and 18,000 periodicals — the second la
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Randall Munroe
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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TS-Si News Service
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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The Onion
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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Monday, 21 July 2008
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Nathaniel Weixel
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Monday, 21 July 2008
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
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Monday, 21 July 2008
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Randall Munroe
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Monday, 21 July 2008
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TS-Si News Service
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
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TS-Si News Service
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Saturday, 19 July 2008
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Creation Science? It is a fairly simple subject to understand, this Creation Science. The conclusion is laid out for you in advance — just read Genesis — and skip the investigation. The basic question is whether this really is science. Even if it isn't, should it be taught in school as a way of opening the minds of young people?
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