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Americans get most radiation from medical scans

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June 15, 2010

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione, Ap Medical Writer – Mon Jun 14, 10:59 am ET
We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It’s true that we get too much radiation. But it’s not from those sources [...]

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100 tons of food arrive from UN

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October 19, 2009

MANILA, Philippines – The first of two of the largest high-energy food shipments from the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) arrived in the country yesterday for victims of storm “Ondoy” and typhoon “Pepeng.”
Stephen Anderson, WFP country director, said the first 100-metric-ton shipment of nutritious biscuits was loaded from Turkey and flown to the Philippines [...]

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Quake rocks Mindoro; Mayon spews more ash

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September 20, 2009

A POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE struck at sea off Mindoro on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of casulties or damage, seismologists said.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the quake had a magnitude of  6.1 and occured at 2:24 p.m. The epicenter was about 116 kilometers southwest of Calapan, Mindoro Oriental. It had [...]

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