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Researchers say that if you just imagine yourself exercising, you can increase the strength of even your large muscles. This discovery could help patients who are too weak to exercise to recuperate from a stroke or other injury. It could also help those of us who are reluctant to get off the couch and out to the gym.

Muscles move in response to impulses from nearby motor neurons. The firing of those neurons depends on the strength of electrical impulses sent by the brain. ?That suggests you can increase muscle strength solely by sending a larger signal to motor neurons from the brain,? says Guang Yue, an exercise physiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.
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It?s been alleged that terrorists and criminals can easily purchase weapons at gun shows, but at the ?Crossroads of the West? gun show in Salt Lake City, Utah, Timothy W. Tobiason was selling printed and CD copies of his book, ?Scientific Principles of Improvised Warfare and Home Defense Volume 6-1: Advanced Biological Weapons Design and Manufacture,? a germ-warfare textbook that experts say is accurate enough to be dangerous.
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Cooks need to be aware that about 13 percent of raw U.S. turkeys carry salmonella, a bacteria that can produce severe flu-like symptoms if the bird is not thoroughly cooked or if raw turkey is allowed to contaminate kitchen surfaces.

Government data shows the rate of salmonella contamination in raw turkey is higher than for other raw meat. Samples collected by the U.S. Agriculture Department found salmonella contamination rates of 3 percent for ground beef and 9 percent for chicken. In tests of chickens, some free-range birds turned out to have higher salmonella rates than factory-raised fowl.
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