New research from University of Glasgow researchers on lay perceptions about gender differences in health reveals that both men and women believe health risks are higher for their own sex than for the opposite sex. But, it also shows that males think that men are fitter and females think women are more athletic.
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Reuters - Toys R Us Inc. on Friday reported a $259 million quarterly profit, and said it had filed its annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after a delay for an accounting review.
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I just moved to the Bay Area a few months ago, so when friends come from out of town, they’re pretty underwhelmed with my abilities as a tour guide.

But not last weekend. My visitors wanted to have brunch somewhere with “a great view.” So I plugged [brunch “great view”] into Google Local, and was pleasantly surprised with the results. Not only was brunch delicious, but we had that “great view” my friends were looking for. Best of all, now they actually think I know my way around the city. (At least until they see this.)

What’s cool about Google Local is that you can go beyond standard categories like restaurant or hotel to search more specifically for things like [brick oven pizza] or [inexpensive hotel]. Very handy, especially if you’re a budding tour guide like me.

Tom Stocky
Product Marketing Manager
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Posted by Tom Stocky, Product Marketing Manager

I just moved to the Bay Area a few months ago, so when friends come from out of town, they’re pretty underwhelmed with my abilities as a tour guide.

But not last weekend. My visitors wanted to have brunch somewhere with “a great view.” So I plugged [brunch “great view”] into Google Local, and was pleasantly surprised with the results. Not only was brunch delicious, but we had that “great view” my friends were looking for. Best of all, now they actually think I know my way around the city. (At least until they see this.)

What’s cool about Google Local is that you can go beyond standard categories like restaurant or hotel to search more specifically for things like [brick oven pizza] or [inexpensive hotel]. Very handy, especially if you’re a budding tour guide like me.
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Reuters - Substantial labor savings and other restructuring benefits could not stem the rush of red ink at bankrupt US Airways, which reported a wider first-quarter loss on Friday.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily - Reykjavik - For the first-time traveler to the nation whose name means, no, not land of ice but island, Iceland is a place of many astonishments. The first of these come, always, on the lengthy drive from Keflavik Airport into Reykjavik, as one’s eyes devour a landscape that must, inevitably, be described as “lunar.” Empty fields of volcanic rock stretch ruddily out towards the water and in towards - nothing. Nothing at all except, perhaps, a jet of opaque mist rising up to the sky to kiss a low-flying cloud: A geyser, the driver will explain, his accent swallowing the syllables. And then again there’s silence, to match the view going on and on and on, a vista of land and water and sky unbroken by hints of even vegetable life; it’s like staring out the window at the day the Earth was born, or, if one is in an apocalyptic mood, the day it died. Time has no purchase here.
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Reuters - Morgan Stanley has called an “abrupt” board meeting for Saturday to discuss concerns about Chief Executive Philip Purcell’s recent actions regarding staff changes, CNBC reported on Friday, quoting an unnamed source.
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It’s always a pleasure to see an independent weekly breaking news of national importance, which The Stranger (Seattle) is doing in a story involving Microsoft, an African American megachurch pastor and a proposed gay-rights bill in the state legislature. In a cover story from this week’s issue, Sandeep Kaushik reports …
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No doubt about it — David Kelly at the Los Angeles Times has found a good story out in the red-zone wilds of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Here’s the headline update from a few days ago: “Loosening Religious Grip at Air Academy: The school launches a sensitivity …
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AP - Former Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, the Democrat who gave a convention keynote speech for President Bush, said Friday he doesn’t see another Republican like Bush coming along and there’s a chance the Democrats could win the White House in 2008.
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