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Oilers salary-cap wizards have their work cut out
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 1 hour 19 minutes ago
GAME TIMEFLAMES AT OILERS 8 p. m., Saturday Media: 630 CHed, CBCMarc Pouliot and Fernando Pisani could be on injured reserve to start the 2009-10 NHL season, but their wages still count against the Edmonton Oilers' salary cap which leaves the team with a tricky bit of arithmetic to work out.

Big CO2 blast unlikely, but even slow leaks serious
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 4 hours 23 minutes ago
In the spirit of this holiday weekend, I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has written and phoned in response to my feature last weekend on carbon capture and sequestration.And I'd like to respond by answering some of your questions.

How to be a good-mannered sport
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 5 hours 41 minutes ago
Need an example? The other day, I was in the pool swimming laps when a random swimmer suddenly appeared in my path. I quickly put on the brakes to avoid a head-on collision and cursed under my breath at her poor manners. Did she know that she had broken one of the basic tenants of lap swimming: swim up the right hand side of the lane and back down on the left?

Want to get buff, ladies? Switch contraceptives
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 10 hours 52 minutes ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Young women seeking a sculpted, muscular silhouette may want to avoid taking oral contraceptives, U.S. researchers said on Friday.They found women who were not taking birth control pills gained 60 percent more muscle mass after a 10-week weight training program than those who were.

Esks miss the mark
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 10 hours 38 minutes ago
WINNIPEGThe winds diminished. The losses? Well, that s another story.The Edmonton Eskimos dropped their fourth defeat in five outings on Friday night, finishing on the losing end of a 27-17 score to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in front of 21,965 fans at Canad Inns Stadium.

With a Little Help from song, Stephen Harper's fortunes on rise
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 10 hours 38 minutes ago
OTTAWA Prime Minister Stephen Harper is having a memorable week.He's won nearly unanimous rave reviews for his singing performance Saturday, his finance minister was named the world's finance minister of the year by a European group, and his party is riding high in the polls.

How to start your golf game off right
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 4 hours 53 minutes ago
Contrary to the advice offered in most golf books and magazines, stretching before hitting the links may not improve your score. According to the latest research, golfers who performed a traditional stretching routine before taking their first swing impeded rather than improved their game.

B.C. researchers develop virtual reality for pain sufferers
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 2 hours 6 minutes ago
VANCOUVER A virtual walk in the park may be just what the doctor ordered for chronic pain sufferers.Simon Fraser University associate professor Diane Gromala claims research shows a 3-D stroll in the forest has the power to help people manage chronic pain, sometimes with better results than traditional means such as morphine.

Edmonton Oilers pound Nashville Predators 6-1
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 5 hours 28 minutes ago
NASHVILLE It took just 15 seconds for the first test, which Jeff Deslauriers promptly passed. And when Martin Erat picked up the rebound from David Legwand s early attempt, and tried to bang one past the Edmonton Oilers goaltender, Deslauriers made another save.

Slowey lost for season
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 18 hours 49 minutes ago
The Minnesota Twins, locked in a tight American League Central division race, will be without right-handed starter Kevin Slowey the rest of the season. Slowey (10-3) will have season-ending surgery to fix a bone chip in his right wrist.

Too much TV time bad for kids' blood pressure
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 5 hours 9 minutes ago
You knew too much TV could be bad for kids in general. Now, hints a study released Monday, too much time in front of the tube, even playing video games, may increase a child's risk of developing high blood pressure.

Oceans face climate-change crisis
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 2 hours 51 minutes ago
For more than two years, Canadian writer Alanna Mitchell travelled the world's oceans, meeting scientists whose research was uncovering a crisis in the planet's large bodies of water.Overfishing, coastal dead zones and rising water temperatures are just some of the problems plaguing the world's oceans. Mitchell found the most serious challenge the oceans face is climate change.

Hats with soul
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 4 hours 53 minutes ago
It's hard to believe the funky and feminine, 1920s-style cloche hats Christine Svensson makes were inspired by her pipefitter husband's welding cap.The close-fitting flannel hat worn beneath the welder's helmet was, in fact, the prototype for the many hundreds of hats and caps Svensson has crafted over the past two-and-a-half years.

Fort residents take issue with greens' methods
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 8 hours 34 minutes ago
When Greenpeace activists scaled an oilsands upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan on Saturday, the small city was thrust into the international spotlight-under a banner that read "Tarsands Climate Crime."Many of 15,000 people who live in the city are proud of their hometown's reputation as the centre of Alberta's Industrial Heartland, billed as one of the world's most attractive locations for petrochemical and oil and gas development.

Moreau's injury flares up again
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 6 hours 26 minutes ago
EDMONTON Edmonton Oilers captain Ethan Moreau surprisingly didn't skate during Monday's practice.Moreau's infected left ankle kept him off the ice, even though he played the season opener against the Calgary Flames.