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• Go for turkey, not stuffing to keep the weight off Nov 25, 2021 12:44 AM
  
  • LOS ANGELES - More turkey, less white bread and mashed potatoes.
  • Just in time for holiday feasting, a large study found that diets higher in protein and lower in carbohydrates can help overweight adults who managed to drop some weight keep it off.
  • European researchers led by Denmark's University of Copenhagen think they have a solution to break the cycle.

  • Mexico sending more troops to zone next to Texas Nov 25, 2021 12:44 AM
    
    • MEXICO CITY - Mexico will send more troops and federal police to try to control drug violence that has spiraled into warfare in parts of the northeast along the U.S. border, the government said Wednesday.
    • The goal of "Coordinated Operation Northeast" is to reinforce government authority in the two states most heavily affected by a surge in violence following a split between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs, federal police spokesman Alejandro Poire said.
    • But in a media briefing with all federal security officials and governors of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, the affected states, Poire provided no details or numbers of reinforcements and answered no questions.

    • Powerful storm to bring snow, ice to the Dakotas Nov 25, 2021 12:44 AM
      
      • BISMARCK, N.D. - A powerful storm that pummeled much of the West is promising to bring its chaotic mix of snow, sleet and ice to much of the Dakotas on Thanksgiving Day.
      • Meteorologists warned residents in the Dakotas to expect a range of messy wintery weather, from freezing drizzle in the eastern two-thirds of South Dakota to a possible blizzard in eastern North Dakota.
      • "Like the Boy Scouts, you've got to be prepared for a North Dakota winter or you're asking for your own problems," said Gerald Miller, 52, who plowed roads on his farm just east of Bismarck on Wednesday.

      • Pope's remarks on condoms sow widespread confusion Nov 25, 2021 12:44 AM
        
        • RALEIGH, N.C. - Some Roman Catholics are confused.
        • Days after the release of Pope Benedict XVI's comments that condoms can be justified to prevent the spread of HIV, there is widespread confusion about exactly what he was trying to say.
        • "It's a mess," said John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, which advises church leaders, hospitals and Vatican offices.

        • Obama admin. backs spill figures, releases e-mails Nov 25, 2021 12:38 AM
          
          • WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the integrity of estimates that for months were inaccurate in showing how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, disclosing thousands of pages of internal e-mails written by government scientists on the project.
          • "It is a guess," a senior U.S. scientist acknowledged to his colleagues.
          • The behind-the-scenes e-mails hint at uncertainties in what the government knew during the summer, even as its scientists wrestled over how to measure oil leaking from a runaway well a mile beneath the water's surface.

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