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(HT DISCLAIMER: before reading this it is important to note this story is deliberately misleading.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7785118.stm
People with bedtime snoring and breathing problems may be using up far more calories while they sleep.

Those with the worst sleep apnoea symptoms burned 373 extra calories a day compared with those with only mild symptoms, US researchers found.

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650 to dissent at U.N. climate change conference

WASHINGTON - A United Nations climate change conference in Poland is about to get a surprise from 650 leading scientists who scoff at doomsday reports of man-made global warming - labeling them variously a lie, a hoax and part of a new religion.

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Bettie Page, one of the most famous US pin-up models of the 1950s, has died in Los Angeles, aged 85.

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Progress has been made on a multi-million dollar bail-out deal for the three big US carmakers, officials say.

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