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Snack bars, yogurts, ice cream, even bottled water: it seems like food makers have worked out ways to slip extra protein into just about anything as they seek to capitalize on a growing consumer trend ...

The world's largest food distributor is teaming up with New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection to significantly expand the state's shell recycling program. Instead of ending up in ...

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Two men in their 60s were hospitalized in Poland after a World War II artillery shell that one of them had found in a forest and brought back home exploded. Both men had been drinking alcohol, police ...