are worse than others when it comes to sparking a skin reaction on the face and ears, nickel and cobalt are the culprit and blackberries which contain nickel can lead to dry and patchy skin, iphones and droids are nickel and cobalt free plastics cellphone cases can reduce the allergic reaction. with peanut allergies they discriminate choosing to strike high income families, according to a study the higher the economic status the greater the risk for allergies researchers after examining over a thousand patients concluded that the hygiene hypothesis is at the root of the problem, over sanitation in higher income households rob a child of the ability to develop immune responses to certain allergens, if you want the ability to eat foods high in starch green tea may help balance blood sugar. they all said the spike in glucose in tests, blood glucose levels were sliced in half when combined with a cup of green tea the benefits are only seeing if you drank green tea without added sugar. a nice warm weekend i had however tom skilling says we will have to deal with rain and falling temperatures

ukeles: gradually, a 100-ton diamond of recycled cobalt blue glass from the local glass factory was revealedthe piece was called "re-spect for givors" with a hyphen after the "re" of "respect" to look again. this one-hour performance showed us that there is power in each of us to transform the world. "flow city" is a work in progress first conceived in 1983. it's kind of like the front door to the fresh kills landfill. it's located at the marine transfer station at 59th street and the hudson river. the flow of the hudson river and the flow of garbage -- it's a giant system of circulation that's all in flux. my function as an artist, as artists have always done, is just to set up some kind of frame in which it's easy to look at something. now, i want people to see this. really i want them to see it because it's theirs. it's not my material. everybody's in on this. "flow city" is a proposal for a public art environment to enable people to enter into an operating waste disposal facility. this is the passage ramp of "flow city," and what you're looking at is the skeleton, the sub-structure that

control the resources of the congo that's really what's at stake we're talking about your rainy i'm cobalt or you name it ira and they have been a spear in the congo. and their place in africa but you know as old soldiers it was very different than what the children. just saw so you have a number of major corporations that are implicated illegally exploiting mineral wealth so you have cabot corporation out of boston massachusetts o.m. group out of cleveland ohio you have freeport me out of phoenix arizona microsoft panasonic touchy you have nokia motorola being questioned about the. tattoo that's used in their cell phones congo has anywhere from sixty four to eighty percent of the world's reserves of coal. three letter conductive in is found in almost every cell phone in the world and in almost every electronic device so these are some of the corporations that have been involved in benefiting from the car on the other hand we have people dying to the tune of fifteen hundred a day forty five thousand a month. in the last ten years hundreds of thousands of women raped. so what really discour

what tightly woven baskets were here, what woven textiles, what stockpile of cobalt blue and honey-colored seed corn left many years before the boom of spanish rifles. with my fingers i traced through the dust of fallen rock debris on the granary roof. when i'm out there looking for stories and routes and trails, i find things like this. i have so far come upon 3 baskets in the desert and 3 different whole ceramic vessels that people had put underneath ledges and these are things that i don't dig for, i just look in cracks and crannies to see what's left behind. you find pieces of sandals or sometimes whole sandals. you find little bits of people, signs that in this desert, there were people everywhere and they aren't always small like that. they aren't always a ceramic vessel under a ledge. sometimes they are huge. sometimes they are 3-story dwellings built up into the cracks. they are buildings that they made in the 11th century ad, that the anastasi, the pueblo people made, that a base 5 stories tall. they built at least 400 miles of roads are documented in the four corners area. when i

these are the images cobalt has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations are all day.

new york allergists found most of the older flip phones contain cobalt or nickel. about 10% of americans are allergic to the metals. doctors also found nickel in one-third of blackberries. there were no traces of the metals in iphones or droids. >> that's funny. i never heard that before. >>> okay, waistlines they are growing worldwide and it's just not people. apparently our pets are packing on the pounds. >> in fact an estimated 54% of dogs and cats in the u.s. are overweight or obese. reporter monica villamizar reports from london. >> reporter: 7-year-old jack was out of breath and overweight. the supersized spaniel was so big he could barely move. when mack and rose welsh adopted him. >> he couldn't close his legs at all. they were that wide apart. >> reporter: so they sign up their dog who -- signed up their dog for britain's pet fitness class. with more than a third of dogs overweight or obese in england the group is helping pets transform their bodies as part of a six month fitness program. just like people obese pets are more likely to have heart problems,

the most common are to nickel and cobalt. researchers tested new and old phones. lot of flip phones have both metals. none of the androids of iphones tested positive for either. unusual photos last night because the social media website was hacked. dozens of tweeters tweeted about it. replaced with this emage that references the attack on the u.s. embassy that killed chris stevens and three others. earlier it was hacked after the sight reset some users passwords. >>> small gains on wall street. we are going to check in with cnbc. we have more on that and the rest of the day's business headlines, too. >> hello, barbara. we have stocks in positive territory rebounding. investors heard president obama's speech. the dow is up 41 points. nasdaq up 23, s&p up eight points. the dow dropping 434 points since president obama won re-election. investors have a deadline. expiring tax cuts. the president speaks at 1:00 eastern time. stocks making big moves today. groupon, the online deals company down 91 cents a share of $3. the economic problems in europe are hurting their pr

cobalt blue waters. the potomac river at 45. wind out of the north at ten to 15 miles per hour.feels colder than that 45. if you are going to be operating more than a few minutes, definitely wear your winter coat. all the areas in dark blue still in the 30s. that includes the shenandoah valley and that of western maryland. this morning, some locations were down into the upper teens. it did feel like a midwinter morning. l locally, we dipped into the 20s and 30s. the light blue is in the 40s including washington, virginia and maryland. all the cold air coming from an area of high pressure from canada, bringing down the chill. we have a few clouds streaming down from the great lakes as far southeast as the shenandoah valley. it's bright and sunny. all this coming from the big area of high pressure that is drifting off the coast. as it does, we have increase in clouds during the day tomorrow. going forward with the future weather throughout the rest of the day will be clear. this evening, as of midnight, still clear. as we get into tomorrow morning, we'll probably have a few clouds

the most common metal allergies are to nickel and cobalt.hers tested new and used phones and found some of the blackberry phones have nickel in them, and a lot of flip phones had both metals. none of the iphones or androids testing positive for either metal. >>> another scandal for one of the country's most well-known college football programs. the university of southern california has fired a student manager for tampering with game use footballs. the manager is accused of deflating five balls before the usc-oregon game last weekend. deflated footballs don't travel as fast and are thought to be easier to throw and catch. two of the balls were used during the game, but they did not give usc any advantage. they lost to oregon 62-51. >>> college basketball tips off tonight with some big games for local teams. georgetown taking part in the navy marine corps classic, a spin on the carrier classic. they will take on the tenth ranked florida gators on board the "uss baton" in jacksonville, florida. that game starts tonight. >>> and the terps lookin

new york allergists found most of the older flip phones contain cobalt or nickel about 10% of americansgic to the metals which can cause skin rashes and eczema on the jaw and ear. doctors also found nickel in one-third of blackberrys but there were no traces of the metals in iphones or. >> droid. >> you have no trouble with yours. >> no. >>> 5:56. coming up a hit in europe now in the u.s. >> controversial over a breast- feeding doll. is it too much for children? >> and the wait is almost over for dozens of people who have been camped out all night in front of a local charity. we'll tell you why next. >> and a chill in the air. a cold winter storm brings fresh snow to the sierra. could we see a dusting on our bay area mountains? ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

talking about a period of time when the united states overwhelmingly required two kinds of energy, cobalt and petroleum -- coal and petroleum. we were a huge producer and could affect the price. today, even though we may have become the largest producer petroleum in the future, as the united states of america in a free market and open world, we cannot control the price of petroleum. host: garth, logan, utah. go ahead. caller: good morning. listening to your program, it is quite interesting, one of the things that has not really been mentioned is the tremendous amount of regulation that you have to go through to license a small hydro or transmission line. i am an independent consultant for a company developing pump storage. the tremendous opposition from the environmental community, from the layers and layers of regulation and bureaucratic stonewalling from the government, this makes it very expensive and time-consuming. host: did you want to talk regulatory policy in the last minute? guest: i wrote another column about how difficult it was to be a small business person in the united state

talking about a period of time when the united states overwhelmingly required two kinds of energy, cobalt and petroleum -- coal and petroleum. we were a huge producer and could affect the price. today, even though we may have become the largest producer petroleum in the future, as the united states of america in a free market and open world, we cannot control the price of petroleum. host: garth, logan, utah. go ahead. caller: good morning. listening to your program, it is quite interesting, one of the things that has not really been mentioned is the tremendous amount of regulation that you have to go through to license a small hydro or transmission line. i am an independent consultant for a company developing pump storage. the tremendous opposition from the environmental community, from the layers and layers of regulation and bureaucratic stonewalling from the government, this makes it very expensive and time-consuming. host: did you want to talk regulatory policy in the last minute? guest: i wrote another column about how difficult it was to be a small business person in the united state

is the 72-year-old man and driving a cobalt. here's where they stopped him. runway nine of the miami international airport. [laughter] it's absolutely true. this man without realizing it burst through the perimeter gate and is on the tarmac when they stopped him. is there a problem officer? i don't know about you but if i'm driving and i see that i'm in the same lane as a 757 -- [laughter] i am probably going to say i'm not unless you know it any more. the weird thing about that is coming i am in that airport all the time and i cant near -- get near a plane there was shampoo. [laughter] he got there with a cobalt. it was one of those clear one quart resealable things. it's about a wedding that goes horribly wrong and among other things of all things that could happen, the groom when he gets there he goes to the backs of party and loses his wedding ring and ends up in the possession of an orangutan named trevor. it's pretty hard-core realism. its gritty urban realism. everything that happens in the book happens in miami because this is a great place to write l