Answers to five questions about driving and cannabis and other top stories.

• Answers to five questions about driving and cannabis

  

  Answers to five questions about driving and cannabis Sarah Moore , KXTV 11:51 PM. PDT October 21, 2016 According to polls, chances are high that California voters will pass the recreational marijuana ballot initiative. A big concern to opponents is the potential for more impaired drivers on the roads. As California braces for the uncertainties posed by legal weed, questions loom.Does cannabis impair driving the way alcohol does?It depends on who you ask. Some point to studies such as o..

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• Snakes used to have arms and legs – until these mutations

  

  The ancestors of today’s slithery snakes once sported full-fledged arms and legs, but genetic mutations caused the reptiles to lose all four of their limbs about 150 million years ago, according to two new studies.The findings are welcome news to herpetologists, who have long wondered what genetic changes caused snakes to lose their arms and legs, the researchers said.Both studies showed that mutations in a stretch of snake DNA called ZRS (the Zone of Polarizing Activity Regulatory Sequence) wer..

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• Here Is How to Decide How Much Screen Time to Give Kids

  

  The good news is that the American Academy of Pediatrics has finally updated its recommendations on how much time kids should spend on screens to reflect the new role that digital devices play in family lives. The bad news is what its new guidelines say, which is: it depends. It depends on whether you participate in screen-watching with your kids, how much you can monitor them, whether you’re on a plane or your kid is sick, whether you can make sure they only watch high-quality content and if..

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• Scientists may have a cure for jet lag: temporary oxygen deprivation

  

  The mice normally breathed air with 21 percent oxygen (just as people do in the real world). But for 12 hours before the "clock" was shifted forward, some of the mice got only 16 percent oxygen. These mice adapted to the new lighting schedule "considerably" faster than their counterparts, as judged by their eating, running and sleeping, the researchers reported.

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• 'My beauty is not defined by my breasts'

  

  Local breast cancer survivors share storiesBuy PhotoClockwise from top left, Beth Huss, Cheryl Benjamin, Teri Banas, Dr. Lewis Jones and Theresa Stevens.(Photo: Julia Nagy/Lansing State Journal)Buy PhotoOne in eight women will develop breast cancer.It is an equal population disease. It doesn't discriminate. No matter your age, race, ethnicity or economic status.It is estimated that there will be 8,150 new cases of breast cancer in Michigan women in 2016.Breast cancer is the second-leading cause ..

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• Aerial spraying not needed for now in Miami's Little River Zika zone

  

  Initial mosquito counts are low enough in Miami’s newest Zika zone that county officials will not need to conduct aerial spraying for now, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said Friday at a community meeting hosted by Florida Gov. Rick Scott during his first visit to the area since declaring last week that the virus was spreading in a one-square-mile section of the Little River neighborhood.“We don’t have a plan right now for aerial spraying in this area,” Gimenez said at the meeting, held at the..

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• WHY IT MATTERS: Abortion

  

  FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2015, file photo, Planned Parenthood supporters rally for women’s access to reproductive health care on “National Pink Out Day’’ at Los Angeles City Hall. Persistent Republican-led efforts to restrict access to abortion and to curb government funding for Planned Parenthood have been hotly debated in Washington and in states, and will be shaped in some way by the next president. (Nick Ut, File/Associated Press) By David Crary | AP October 22 at 1:44 AM NEW YORK — T..

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• Detroit officials, Whole Foods work to limit Hepatitis A cases

  

  Public health officials in Detroit are investigating two cases of Hepatitis A infection and urging anyone who recently ate food prepared at a Whole Foods Market store there to consider getting a post-exposure vaccination. Locals turned out in force ...

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