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Just two hours after polls closed Tuesday, Murkowski conceded defeat and pledged to support the winner, former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin.With 87 percent of precincts reporting, Palin won 51 percent of the vote beating former state Sen. John Binkley with 30 percent and Murkowski 19 percent.Binkley also threw his support behind Palin and told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, I ;m going moose hunting. That all I know.Murkowski suffered low approval ratings that plunged to 19 percent in an August poll by SurveyUSA, numbers hig stanley cup her than only one other governor, Ohio embattled Gov. Bob Taft. The last Alaskan governor to lose a primary was Democrat Bill Sheffield in 1986.Palin, former chairwoman of the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and tw stanley cup o-term mayor of Wasilla, marketed herself as an opportunit stanley cup y for change and ran without support from the state Republican Party. With her primary win, she has the chance to become the state first female governor if she can beat former Gov. Tony Knowles in the November general election.Knowles, Alaska Democratic governor from 1994 to 2002, easily won his party nomination with 74 percent of the vote over state Rep. Eric Croft and Bruce Lemke. Alaska constitution allows three terms as governor but mandates a break after two consecutive terms.Knowles ran for Senate in 2004 but lost to the governor daughter, Republican Lisa Murkowski, who was appointed by Qznr CVS pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products by October
1,500 deaths in the past decade have been linked to taking a bit too much of what has been widely known as a 8220 afe pain reliever, says a report by ProPublica. The kicker The deaths could be preventable. The drug acetaminophen, which is the active ingredient in the popular Tylenol, among others, is widely considered safe when taken correctly. Yet, the pain reliever can lead to liver damage that is often severe or even fatal when taken in doses greater than recommended. The problem is, however, that the margin between a safe dose and a potentially harmful dose is slim.Taken over several days, as little as 25 perce stanley cup nt above the maximum daily dose or just two additional extra strength pills a day has been reported stanley cup to cause liver damage, according to the [Food and Drug Administration]. Taken all at once, a little less than four times the maximum daily dose can cause death. A comparable figure doesn ;t exist for ibuprofen, because so few people have died from overdosing on that drug. Despite the slim margin between safe and harmful amounts, little action has been taken to prevent possible overdoses. The FDA has repeatedly deferred deci adidas samba og sions on consumer protections even when they were endorsed by the agency own advisory committees, records show, ProPublica writes.Warnings on liver damage were added to the drug label in 2009 by the FDA, 32 years after an expert panel convened by the agency advised it was obligato |
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