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31 August 2009 Helmand Province, Afghanistan The historical Afghan elections scheduled for 20 August were days away. While the west mostly continued to vote for Afghanistan, the big question was, “Will Afghanistan vote for itself?” The latest media wave splashed into the main voting centers in places like Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Herat and Lashkar Gah. The larger cities only account for perhaps 20% of the Afghan population. Whereas the easy and obvious stories are in the cities, a cruci
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Limiting your exercise will only make your back pain worse. The newest findings show different results. Chiropractor in Costa Mesa At the University of Alberta in Canada, researchers found that the response to exercise is very positive. By “regular”, they meant exercising at least four days a week. “While it could be assumed that someone with back pain should not be exercising frequently, our findings show that working with weights four days a week provides the greatest amount of pain relie
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Here (and here), we have chiropractors providing “For Sceptics Only” pages on their websites. Let’s take a look…On the main page, a list of “myths” is accompanied by text stating that “If these myths were true, chiropractic would have disappeared long ago, just like bloodletting and countless other ineffective procedures.” This seems to assume that human beings are rational and would abandon therapies not shown to work. I also think that it assumes that (to pick just two of the stated “myths”)
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These days it seems everyone is taller. Being tall is not all that is essential in the world but maintaining your height is. You can’t control your height but you can look for solutions that will help you not lose it as you age. This is not a joke. You can use an inversion stretch table to help conserve your height. There are lot of gimmicks out on the market, drinks, supplements and pills that claim to make you taller. There is no logic in their claims. Often their claims are disguised with “
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This article describes the overriding goals and concepts discussed in the healthcare reform plans currently under consideration by the Congress. Specifically, the article discusses the concept of a public option as part of healthcare reform, the concept of providing universal coverage and the issue of how to pay for healthcare reform. The article also touches on several other key issues. 1. Overriding goal. Three of the core concepts related to healthcare reform are cost containment, universa
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