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CHICAGO (AP) -- A burgeoning industry of wellness advisers, counselors and consultants is booming as corporate America tries to increase productivity and control insurance costs by helping its employees get healthy and shed pounds. The change is fueled by well-meaning, cost-conscious executives who are looking for ways to trim bottom lines along with waist lines. "The truth is CEOs are the ones that have to address it," said Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate and former gov...

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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah - possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.

The mummy was identified as Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled for 20 years in the 15th century B.C., dressing like a man and wearing a fake beard. A monumental builder, she wielded more power than two other famous ancient Egyptian women, Cleopatra and Nefertiti, who unlike her never took the title of pharaoh.

But when she died, all traces of her mysteriously disappeared, including her mummy.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say they've created embryonic stem cells by stimulating unfertilized eggs, a significant step toward producing transplant tissue that's genetically matched to women.

The advance suggests that someday, a woman who wants a transplant to treat a condition like diabetes or a spinal cord injury could provide eggs to a lab, which in turn could create tissue that her body wouldn't reject.

Ethicists disagreed on whether the strategy would avoid the long-standing ethical objections to creating embryonic stem cells by other means.

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After 30 years on the police force, coming to the rescue for thousands of people, Jack Cole at 58 needed a little rescuing himself.

Cole was forced to retire from the Springtown Police Department in 2003 after heart attacks rendered him unable to work. Two years later, cancer cost him a kidney, then the other kidney shut down and he went on dialysis.

He was on the verge of letting go and letting nature take its course when help came from a very familiar source.

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