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5/8/2008
Woman Aims For Breast Implant Record
Last Edited: Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 5:11 PM EDT
Created: Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 5:05 PM EDT
Did you know breast implants were developed in Houston nearly fifty years ago?
The popularity of breast implants keeps on growing, while they're certainly not for everyone.
The National Cancer Institute is conducting a study to determine the long-term health effects associated with silicone breast implants, including any changes in breast cancer risk.
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5/8/2008
Harvard Professor: Children Can Send Marriage Into Downward Spiral
Marriage has been shown, through research, to be an unending source of joy, a Harvard professor said at an Australian conference this week.
But introduce children into the relationship and that joy may plummet, according to a report from the Australian Associated Press.
"Figures show that married people are in almost every way happier than unmarried people — whether they are single, divorced, cohabiting," Harvard University psychology professor Daniel Gilbert told the Happiness and its Causes conference in Sydney.
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5/8/2008
Texas caught off guard as more seek handgun permits
Some point to anti-gun politics as applications rise 39 percent and swamp the state
By JANET ELLIOTT
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
AUSTIN — Demand for concealed handgun licenses has risen nearly 40 percent in Texas in a year, an increase being attributed to many factors, even presidential politics.
Though the exact cause may be unclear, what's certain is that the spike in applications has caught the Department of Public Safety unprepared.
The state is taking a month longer than the 60 days allowed by law to process original applications and 80 days longer on renewals, which are supposed to be handled within 45 days.
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5/8/2008
Councilman calls for look at how Austin Latinos are faring
Martinez seeks city-led quality of life initiative; others polling Latinos on issues, engagement.
By Juan Castillo
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, May 08, 2008
When he considers the myriad challenges facing Austin Latinos, Paul Saldaña needs only to gaze out the window of his small consulting business, not far from the old East Austin neighborhood where he was born and raised.
Around East Sixth and Robert T. Martinez Jr. streets, the average income for a family of four is $17,000 to $21,000 a year, Saldaña says. Yet, within two blocks of his office, he notes, condos are on the market starting at about $300,000 for 800 square feet of living space.
His point: Development and gentrification are driving up property taxes and driving out longtime Latino residents and businesses.
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5/8/2008
Bikini Car Wash causing controversy
Web Posted: 05/08/2008 01:27 AM CDT
Selena Hernandez
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
A controversial car wash is generating more than just suds.
Some parents and church members say they want the Bikini Car Wash kicked to the curb and out of their neighborhood.
With women bikini-clad and bearing more than just sponges, at a newly opened car was on South Flores, you can get your car hand-washed, waxed and dried, complete with a view.
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5/8/2008
Senate Democrats Seeking a Special Tax on Oil Profits
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday called for a temporary special tax on oil companies’ profits and a rollback of $17 billion in oil industry tax breaks as part of an energy package. The Democrats are also seeking federal penalties on energy price gouging and a suspension of oil deliveries into the government’s emergency reserve.
Senate Republicans strongly oppose any additional oil industry taxes, which are widely viewed as unlikely to be enacted and would almost certainly prompt a veto by President Bush.
The proposed 25 percent profits tax would apply just to oil company earnings above what would be considered “reasonable” and only if those profits are not reinvested in expanding refinery capacity or renewable energy sources, according to a summary of the proposals.
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5/8/2008
3 years after law, Texas will target uninsured drivers
12:45 AM CDT on Thursday, May 8, 2008
By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News
tstutz@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN – Three years after the Legislature passed a law to crack down on uninsured motorists, the number of drivers caught without insurance coverage under the 2005 statute is exactly – zero.
Start-up of the new insurance verification program has been snagged by initial delays in hiring a private contractor to create a database, differences among state agencies responsible for implementing the law, worries that some data may be inaccurate and doubts about the program by the insurance industry.
The program, funded with an annual $1 fee paid by all Texas drivers when renewing their vehicle registration, aims to create a database for police officers, state troopers and vehicle inspection stations to instantly verify whether a motorist has the minimum coverage required under state law. The database would be set up with information provided by insurers.
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5/8/2008
Suspend deliveries to U.S. oil reserve, lawmakers say
Congressional Democrats and Republicans support a halt to the nation's emergency stockpiling, citing high gas prices. President Bush has said that a moratorium would be risky and wouldn't bring down prices.
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Only gasoline prices nearing $4 a gallon could accomplish this political feat: bringing together congressional Democrats and Republicans to support a halt to oil deliveries for the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
With fuel costs becoming a crucial election-year issue, members of both parties -- separately -- pitched their ideas Wednesday for bringing down prices.
Democrats called for a windfall profits tax on oil companies, rolling back tax breaks for the industry and new protections against price-gouging, while Republicans urged increased exploration for new domestic oil sources. About the only proposal their plans had in common was to stop the delivery of 70,000 barrels of oil a day for the emergency stockpile.
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5/8/2008
Survey: More Americans feeling 'green guilt'
By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
You really have been meaning to swap out your light bulbs for those energy-efficient ones. And you really and truly did not mean to leave your computer on all vacation.
You did, in fact, hear all those Earth Day messages. And yes, you know you're not doing enough.
You know it and you feel guilty.
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5/8/2008
Human cadavers used in auto crash tests
Published: 7 May 08 15:58 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/11604/
Human cadavers were used in automobile crash tests conducted in the last year by General Motors, the US-based parent company of Swedish car manufacturer Saab.
Claes Tingvall, a car safety specialist with the Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket), told the newspaper Expressen that GM recently finished a multi-year research project in which dead human bodies were used.
“For certain things, it’s important to use cadavers. [The tests] involved people who had donated their own bodies,” Tingvall told Expressen.
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