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Men who give up work to become house husbands could be putting their health at risk, suggests a new study. Dr. Elaine Eaker, of Eaker Epidemiology Enterprises in Wisconsin, found that the pressures of staying at home to look after children significantly increase a man’s risk of heart disease and early death.

The findings come from a study into the links between work-related stress and coronary heart disease. Eaker says, “These findings may indicate that people who perform work or social roles incongruent with what is socially expected suffer greater heart disease and death.”
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Carter Dougherty writes in The Washington Times that The European Union is demanding that foreign companies be allowed to compete with the U.S. Postal Service. Europe also wants access to American markets for municipal water and waste services. It also will call for foreign companies to be given access to Small Business Administration loans. These demands will be formally presented to the U.S. government by the end of June. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will also present a list of U.S. demands to Europe later this year.

Harry Freeman, a Washington-based analyst of trade negotiations, says the U.S. market is already open to foreign companies. “What the European Union is going after is pretty predictable,” he says. “These are the clear bones of contention.”read more

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We once knew a math teacher who breezed into her inner-city middle school classroom and announced, ?Today we?re going to talk about sets.? She was greeted with total, silent attention and was baffled by this, until she realized her students thought she?d said ?sex.?

We?re talking about ?sets? too?books that come in sets and give you great information for less money. Here of a few of the ones we have on our website store. All of the authors have been popular guests on Dreamland radio.
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Satellite images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have detected another in an increasing series of massive icebergs which have broken off the continent of Antarctica. The new iceberg measures roughly 47 miles by 4.6 miles, or almost ten times the area of Manhattan.

The breakdown of the Antarctic ice sheet, which scientists suspect is an early sign of global warming, could have implications for climate changes over much of the planet’s surface.

NOAA monitoring of satellite images from the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite Program detected the new berg this week on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, a expansive ice area extending out from the continent in the portion of Antarctica closest to New Zealand.

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