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Salt rumors add to health crisis in Pakistan Dec 31st 2012, 12:08 LAHORE, Pakistan — At a bustling general store in Lahore, a major metropolitan center of culture and learning, people ask a lot of questions about one seemingly innocuous product: table salt. If it contains iodine, about 40 percent of his customers spurn it, according to proprietor Muhammad Waqas Vicky. They won't allow their families to consume what they call "mixed salt," believing it causes infertility. Read full article >> Scientists try to save the frogs as time runs out Dec 31st 2012, 03:02 EL VALLE, Panama — In moist, mossy rooms, rows of glass aquariums bathed in eerie light shelter the last of the last of the frogs. It is a secure facility, for here reside the sole survivors of their species, rescued from the wild before a modern plague swept through their forests and streams in a ferocious doomsday event that threatens the planet's amphibians with extinction. Read full article >> Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot Dec 31st 2012, 02:15 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors monitoring her recovery from a concussion discovered a blood clot, according to a statement from her office. Read full article >>

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