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Spain trip helps SLU get ready for soccer season

The rain could not stop the opening of the 95th season of the Muny, which debuted 'Spamalot.' and included a surprise appearance by Eric ...
Cards adjust Memphis rotation for Wacha

The Cardinals are shifting to a modified six-man rotation at their highest affiliate to help monitor the innings of top prospect Michael Wacha even as they keep pitchers ready for potential promotions to the majors.Returned to Class AAA Memphis on Friday, Wacha started Tuesday night and struck out five of the first 10 batters he faced in Round Rock, Texas. The righty, who was the Cardinals' ...
Softball team starts season with 39-12-2 record

The Missouri Heat 12U softball team is off to a hot start this season with a 39-12-2 overall record through June 11 and has been named the Cardinals Featured Team of the Week.About 20 games remain for the Heat, but so far the St. Charles County-based team has placed third in a tournament in Chesterfield, went 5-0 in a rain-shortened Memorial Day weekend tournament in Kansas City and took first ...
Miami rallies to beat Spurs in overtime

San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (9) and Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) collide during the second half of Game 6 of their NBA Finals basketball series, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne ...
A sister acts as an unlikely mentor to deadbeat dads

o Sister Carol Schumer always eats everything on her plate, makes her bed every day, wears only white and navy and admits to being a wee pushy in her former career as a Catholic school principal.So there's no missing this rail-thin woman with gray hair and sensible navy shoes in the center of 18 men who've been labeled deadbeat dads.They are seated around her in a horseshoe in a ...

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Pulp Fiction [Blu-Ray]

Although it is has been 17 years since Quentin Tarantinos Pulp Fiction took the world by storm, winning the Palm dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and making the wunderkind video-store-clerk-turned-director a cultural icon of cinem ... ...

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McClellan Heading for a bar at midnight Thats no time for old men

An old friend who is retired from the police department stopped by the paper the other day. He was on his way to play poker at the downtown casino.I mentioned that my son was in town and I suggested that the three of us go to the track. "I can't go this Tuesday," said my friend. (When we go, we go on a Tuesday for the afternoon session. Horse hookey, it's called.) Maybe we ...
McCaskills early endorsement of Hillary Clinton is meant as a nudge

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Chicago on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott ...
First inning dooms Cards Wainwright

By the time Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright righted his wayward mechanics before the start of the second inning Tuesday, it was already too late.The Cubs had all the runs starter Jeff Samardzija needed.Taking early advantage of Wainwright's misbehaving fastball, the Cubs jumped the righty for four runs on four consecutive extra-base hits in the first inning. Samardzija did the rest as he ...
Fracking comes to Illinois amid a wave of money and controversy

The rocky ground deep beneath Southern Illinois will soon be wrung like a sponge to yield previously unreachable oil and natural gas. "Fracking," the process of fracturing underground rock formations to extract their hidden fuel, is coming to the Land of Lincoln.The politics behind it, like the science, is all about pressure: Economic pressure, in the form of thousands of jobs for the ...
No more free Saturdays on downtown St. Louis parking meters

Beginning July 1, downtown parking meters will be enforced on Saturdays. Visitors to Citygarden enjoy the sites as an expired meter on 10th Street awaits change on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Photo by Robert Cohen, ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Vegetable oil helps lower heart disease risk

Researchers from University of Missouri have suggested that a person can attain a heart-healthy diet by using soybean, canola, corn and sunflower oils.

Kevin Fritsche, along with Guy Johnson, an adjunct professor of food and human nutrition at the University of Illinois, conducted one of the most thorough studies on linoleic acid (LA) questioning whether this fatty acid promoted inflammation in humans.

When the evidence from numerous clinical trials was gathered and examined, Fritsche said it was clear that LA consumption did not promote inflammation in healthy people.

Fritsche and Johnson reviewed 15 clinical trials that studied nearly 500 adults as they consumed various forms of fats, including vegetable oils.

The researchers could find no evidence that a diet high in linoleic acid had any links to inflammation in the body.

Due to this discovery, the researchers say that it is important to continue following the current recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and the American Heart Association to use vegetable oil when cooking and consume between two and four tablespoons of vegetable oil daily to reach the necessary amount of linoleic acid needed for a heart-healthy diet. ...