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BEYOND LOCAL: A new recycling technique breaks down old tires into reusable materials

BEYOND LOCAL: A new recycling technique breaks down old tires into reusable materials

Billions of tires are produced each year, a significant portion of which end up in landfills and dumps
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BEYOND LOCAL: Lying on your dating profile can hurt you and your chances at love

BEYOND LOCAL: Lying on your dating profile can hurt you and your chances at love

Age, income and interests include common topics people lie about online
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BEYOND LOCAL: Exercise comparable to caffeine in boosting working memory, study says

BEYOND LOCAL: Exercise comparable to caffeine in boosting working memory, study says

Data found that exercise may also have the ability to reduce the negative effects of caffeine withdrawal
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BEYOND LOCAL: What you need to know before taking the plunge into a new career

BEYOND LOCAL: What you need to know before taking the plunge into a new career

Impacts to consider include going back to school short or long-term
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BEYOND LOCAL: Study suggests average human body temperature is lower than it used to be

BEYOND LOCAL: Study suggests average human body temperature is lower than it used to be

Part of the reason, researchers say, is that less of the population is infected with a disease that could raise body temperature
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BEYOND LOCAL: How vaccines really work

BEYOND LOCAL: How vaccines really work

Experts say that when vaccines are distributed properly, they will protect the individual and their community simultaneously
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BEYOND LOCAL: Killing off Queen Bee Syndrome stereotypes is essential to workplace gender equality, expert says

BEYOND LOCAL: Killing off Queen Bee Syndrome stereotypes is essential to workplace gender equality, expert says

The Queen Bee myth has more to do with how companies are structured than it does with women actually undermining one another at work.
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BEYOND LOCAL: How to make sure you don't get hurt at work

BEYOND LOCAL: How to make sure you don't get hurt at work

Prolonged static posture is the major worry in the case of a desk job, experts say
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ONTARIO: Breast cancer imaging device designed in Thunder Bay receives $448K grant for clinical trials

ONTARIO: Breast cancer imaging device designed in Thunder Bay receives $448K grant for clinical trials

Clinical trials are expected to take a year
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ONTARIO: Province looks to change jail phone call system, include calls to cellphones

ONTARIO: Province looks to change jail phone call system, include calls to cellphones

Currently, inmates are only able to place collect calls to landlines
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