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'Scrawny' teen aims for better physique

Book explains how to perform range of exercises
Helping parents with grief

Helping parents with grief

Two mothers who have lost children hope their new book will help others cope with the pain they share

Hong Kong flat sets record price

A Hong Kong apartment designed by awardwinning architect Frank Gehry has sold for $55.4 million US, a record price for a flat in Asia, developer Swire Properties said on Thursday.

Research links exercise, healthy aging

Fit older people are less prone to chronic diseases, study shows

Men who love chocolate have lower stroke risk

Study finds more health benefits of chocolate consumption

Bionic eye gives woman some sight

A bionic eye has given an Australian woman partial sight and researchers say it is an important step toward eventually helping visually impaired people get around independently.

Go Calendar

ATTRACTIONS HISTORIC Craigdarroch Castle. 1050 Joan Cres., daily 9 a.m.-7 p.m.. Sept. 4, 10 a.m.-4: 30 p.m. 250-592-5323. Fairmont Empress Tours: The Grand Ol' Lady is 104.

Markets

All Fun Swap & Shop at the track, Western Speedway, 2207 Millstream Rd. every Sunday, 7 a.m.-2 p.m. (weather permitting), to September. $2 to buy; $12 to sell; $8 table rentals. Please note: animals of any kind are not permitted in the shopping area.

'Touch the car' contest not cause of Graves' disease

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have a niece who participated in one of those "touch the car continuously the longest" contests, where you win a car. She won after almost three days. About a year later, she was diagnosed with Graves' disease.

1996 show imagined life in new millennium

When Cirque du Soleil first mounted Quidam in 1996, it did something no previous Cirque show had done: It set the show in the grind of daily life.