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Train your brain to prefer healthy food over junk Train your brain to prefer healthy food over junk 11/04/2014 01:11pm • WASHINGTON -- Imagine a world where people preferred carrots over candy bars and figs over French fries. It would be a world with fewer cases of Type 2 diabetes, fewer weight-related heart attacks and fewer deaths. According to researchers, that world is within reach -- if you take the time to Stocks slip...Home prices increase less...Factory orders decline 11/04/2014 11:50am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are lower in early trading on Wall Street, led by declines in the energy sector. Oil prices sank to four-year lows near $77 a barrel following reports Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest oil producer, is cutting its prices for customers in the U.S. Energy stocks in the S&P 500 index Ardagh Group opens plant in Roanoke County 11/04/2014 11:00am • ROANOKE, Va. (AP) -- Packaging manufacturer Ardagh Group has opened a $93.5 million plant in Roanoke County that will employ 100 workers.The plant will manufacture light weight metal cans and traditional three-piece food cans.Roanoke County Economic Development says officials from Ardagh and ConAgra SUV sales help BMW earnings 11/04/2014 07:50am • DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Germany's luxury automaker BMW AG saw net profit slip 1.2 percent in the third quarter due to non-cash losses on foreign currency hedges and the reduced value of a stake in a key supplier.The company otherwise had a profitable quarter, ridin The 7-minute workout: a personal trainer in your pocket 11/04/2014 12:00am • We are a nation that loves a bargain. We tend to get a boost from getting more for less, more bang for our buck. In my work with busy professionals, not to mention in my own life, I know that time is at a premium and we crave convenience. When asked why my clients don't exercise on a regular basi Consider Pursuing a Medical Career as a Geriatric Specialist 11/04/2014 12:00am • Geriatrics is a medical subspecialty focused on the practice of medicine for people over the age of 65. Geriatricians have the unique opportunity to accompany people as they approach the ends of their lives.In this field, you will deal with patients that tend to have multiple medical problems and co Browns ready for prime-time test against Bengals 11/03/2014 06:37pm • TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) -- The stage will be bigger, the lights brighter, the pressure more intense.Ready or not, the Browns are coming to prime time.One of the NFL's biggest surprise teams during this topsy-turvy season in which record and reputation mean very little, the Browns Bills Spiller unsure when he'll return from injury 11/03/2014 06:20pm • JOHN WAWROW AP Sports Writer ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- C.J. Spiller is keeping his spirits high even though the Bills running back's short- and long-term future in Buffalo is up in the air.Speaking on Monday for the first time since breaking his collarbone two weeks earlier, Spiller said it was too NC State stops ACC skid, looks ahead to bowl chase 11/03/2014 03:57pm • AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina State's long losing streak in Atlantic Coast Conference play is over. So too is a tough five-game midseason stretch that threatened to push the Wolfpack into a repeat of last year's struggles.Now, heading into Saturday's home game aga White House predicts Democrats will hold Senate 11/03/2014 03:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the eve of the midterm elections, a spokesman says President Barack Obama believes Democrats will hold onto the Senate.Spokesman Josh Earnest says Democrats are backed by a get-out-the-vote strategy that could boost their candidates by 2 or 3 percentage points on Election Day.R Ryanair raises outlook, soars to record high 11/03/2014 01:25pm • SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) -- Ryanair sharply raised its profit outlook on the back of surprisingly strong first-half profits, sending shares in Europe's biggest budget airline to a record high.The airline said Monday that its net profit for the peak April-September period rose 32 Navigating Weight Loss After an Eating Disorder 11/03/2014 12:00am • Caroline Adams Miller, 53, hasn't stepped on a scale in 30 years. Technically, she has -- during her visits to the OB-GYN for her three pregnancies -- but she never looked at the number. "I would go in and I would say, 'You're not going to weigh me unless I stand on the scale backwards, plug my ear 'We just had a hunch': US marshals nab Eric Frein 11/01/2014 08:20pm • MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press MOUNTAINHOME, Pa. (AP) -- Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, spied a figure moving from the woods toward an abandoned airplane hangar in the Pocono Mountains. Looking at his face, his black hat and fleece, and his height and weig Market ends month on a high note...Gas dips below $3 a gallon...AIG settles with NY 11/01/2014 02:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market begins a new month of trading on Monday and for stock investors, there was no shortage of drama in October. The market slumped during the month, even flirting with a correction, but closed out October at all-time highs. The Dow climbed 1.1 percent on Friday. The S&P Herbalife eyes settlement in federal lawsuit 10/31/2014 09:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Herbalife says it has agreed to settle a lawsuit that claimed the company's business structure and marketing practices violated federal and state laws.The weight loss and nutritional supplements company did not elaborate in its statement Friday on the terms of the proposed settle
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