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Obey posted speed limits.
Never drive a snowmobile alone or on unfamiliar ground.
Drive only on established and marked trails.
Avoid waterways. The ice could be dangerously thin.
Avoid bad weather because it impairs visibility.
Avoid blind grades that can obscure other riders or objects.
Be sensible about stopping at roads and railroad tracks.
Use extra caution at night.
Wear a helmet. It's the law when you're off your own land.
Don't drink and drive.
SOURCE: Consumer Product Safety Commission .
Local model makes a like rocking stone with jewelry line
But SoFla resident Lee Dahlberg put it all on the line to launch his jewelry design company, Rock Bands.
The risk paid off. Tabloid temptress Britney Spears wore his signature bracelets on the covers of People and Us Weekly magazines and inside OK magazine this month alone.
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Industry wouldn't fund cancer drug, so Alberta town rode to the rescue
Even though the drug shrinks cancerous tumours, no pharmaceutical companies wanted to fund human trials because they couldn't make enough money selling it. And that's when Peace River stepped in. DCA has been in use for decades. But it has recently been shown to fight cancer by attacking the metabolism of malignant tumours in studies on rats. (CBC) To date, the town in northwestern Alberta has collected $250,000 — a large chunk of the $800,000 in grants and donations generated worldwide to fund the clinical trial of dichloroacetate, or DCA. DCA has been in use for decades. But it has recently been shown to fight cancer by attacking the metabolism of malignant tumours in studies on rats. In January 2007, the academic journal Cancer Cell published a University of Alberta doctor's findings that showed the compound shrinks tumours without damaging healthy cells.
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