Men’s Health Magazine has just released its rankings of the best cities for men to live in this year.
Turns out Hartford’s not half bad. Out of 100 cities, the Capitol City ranked 25 overall.
Health: This included male death rates from heart disease and cancer.
Habitat: The city’s standard of living, assessing crime, job growth and air quality.
Fitness: This was a study of how hard and how often men worked out.
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A car crash on one of the Fargo-area’s busiest roads trapped a passenger, and sent three people to the hospital with injuries Saturday.
It happened at the intersection of 13th Avenue South, and 17th Street East in West Fargo, shortly after 3:30pm. According to West Fargo police, a vehicle driven by a 45-year-old woman from Bismarck was headed east on 13th Avenue, when she tried to turn left. A westbound vehicle, driven by a 50-year-old woman from Read the rest of this entry »
TEHRAN – National Police Chief Brigadier General Esmaeil Ahmadi Moqaddam said on Sunday that every day three tons of drugs are discovered in Iran.
He said drug production is on the rise in Afghanistan and is currently two times more than demand. Unfortunately foreign troops and other responsible authorities have failed to curb drug cultivation in the country, he added.
“Reports say more than eight million Afghans will suffer an unprecedented Read the rest of this entry »
But one habit endures: Obama has gone to the gym, for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He always has treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the past few months. Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. Read the rest of this entry »
A traffic accident in Philippi sent three people to the hospital, the West Virginia State Police says.
A pickup truck was traveling west on Chestnut Ridge Road, when it hit a patch of black ice, according to troopers.
The driver of the truck is said to have lost control of the truck and gone over an embankment before crashing into a house.
All three passengers were flown via helicopter to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.
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(RTTNews) – Rumors of a potential merger between drug giant Pfizer Inc. (
) have been doing the rounds since 2007. Now, it’s no more a rumor. It’s real and Pfizer is all set to acquire Wyeth in a $68 billion deal.
Monday, Pfizer announced that it has agreed to acquire Wyeth in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at $50.19 per share, or a total of about $68 billion. The Boards of Directors of both companies have approved the combination. Read the rest of this entry »
- Does the thought of the ultimate fitness goal – a half marathon, full marathon or triathlon – seem more like a fantasy, or worse, a nightmare, for an average dreamer such as yourself?
Think again. Across the nation, people of every shape, size, age and fitness level are turning their fitness dreams into reality. With a little motivation and the right advice, so can you. You don’t need to be a fitness guru to get started.
“The bottom line is Read the rest of this entry »
Virginity pledges alone may not decrease teenagers’ sexual behavior. Instead, they may decrease their sex safe practices, according to the January issue of
.
Population and family health researcher Janet Elise Rosenbaum, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that pledges were 10 percent less likely than non-pledgers to use a condom or any form of birth control.
“In Chicago there are real questions about what teens Read the rest of this entry »
Last Updated: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 08:14
Three Britons appeared at a special court sitting last night charged over the 1.7-tonne cocaine haul seized from a yacht off the Co Cork coast.
Philip Doo (52) and David Mufford (44), both from Devon, and Christopher Wiggins (42), who has been living in Spain’s Costa del Sol, were charged at Clonakilty District Court with attempting to import the drugs, valued at more than €650 million. Read the rest of this entry »
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with Pathfinder International, a non-governmental family health organization, and John Snow, Incorporated, (JSI) a public health research and consulting firm, has launched a new $50 million family health program for Ethiopia.
Inaugurated November 25th, the Family Health Program is a public/private sector initiative, which focuses on family planning and reproductive health, Read the rest of this entry »