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Answer Man: What's behind Islam's Sunni-Shiite split?
Q. In so many stories about the Middle East (Iraq, etc.), we read about the hostility between two factions of Islam -- the Sunni and the Shiites. Can you please explain when their monumental split occurred and why there is so much animosity between the two?
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HEALTH
Nurses' labor of love is all in the family for grandmother-granddaughter team
When soon-to-be mothers are feeling exhausted and ready to give up, Krissy Maher, a labor and delivery nurse at Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, regularly calls in the Pushing Specialist.
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HEALTH
Flesh-eating disease victim gets prosthetic hands
A metro Atlanta woman who lost both hands, her left leg and right foot after contracting a flesh-eating disease was on her way back from Ohio Friday after being fitted with prosthetic hands.
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HEALTH
14-year term for Calif. doc promising cancer cure
A Los Angeles doctor was sentenced Friday to 14 years in federal prison for bilking patients out of more than $1 million by promising them that an herbal supplement she hawked could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.
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LIVING
Shopping: Sassy tags make luggage stand out
It was the end of a long day and I was standing at Lambert Airport watching luggage pop out of a hole and slide onto Carousel 6. Nearly everybody's bags were black and nearly everyone had tried to find some way to make his stand out -- from orange bungee cords to hot pink ribbons on handles.
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HEALTH
Correction: Drunken Driving-Zero Deaths story
In a story May 17 about a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation on a blood alcohol threshold for drivers, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the definition of a drink. The standard definition of a drink is 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine and 1.5 ounces of 80-proof alcohol.
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HEALTH
Poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns
Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may have pooped in the pool.
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HEALTH
HPV-related throat cancers multiplying; vaccine can help prevent them
It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin J. Cullen, an oncologist who specializes...
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HEALTH
NICUs are tense, hopeful places for parents of newborns
Little Carter Silveira was sound asleep in the Sutter Memorial Hospital neonatal intensive care unit.
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HEALTH
On nutrition: Late-night snacking
My friend Madelyn sends me periodic requests to address her issue of late night snacking. Wonders if this habit may hinder her efforts to lose weight.
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