| December 23, 2004 | - Donald Rumsfeld, under criticism for having his condolence letters to the families of dead American soldiers signed by an automatic pen, said he stays “awake at night for concern for those at risk.”
| Source:
SFGate
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| August 12, 2004 | - A 480-pound Florida woman who had not left her couch for six years died when doctors attempted to separate her from the couch, which was fused to her body.
| Source:
WFTV.com
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| March 10, 2004 | - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that obesity was killing almost as many people as tobacco; poor diet and sloth were responsible for 400,000 deaths in 2000, or 16.6 percent of everyone who died; tobacco killed 435,000 people, or 18.1 percent.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 10, 2003 | -
Chile's congress was debating whether to give workers the legal right to take a siesta.
| Source:
Undernews
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