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• Court won’t halt funding reductions for online school

  10-12-2017 18:21 via columbuspost.com
  (AP) — The Boston Globe reports Sam Balto placed laminated cutouts of the player’s face on pedestrian crossing signs outside an elementary school in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood Wednesday.
  Balto says he watched drivers speed through the 20-mph zone for months. The teacher used a speed radar monitor and posted the results on Twitter, clocking drivers between 30 and 56 mph.
  Crosswalk posts were recently placed in the street near the school, but Balto says drivers would hit the
  
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• FDA approves diabetes drug that also helps with weight loss

  10-12-2017 17:59 via columbuspost.com
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved a new diabetes drug that reduces blood sugar levels and also helps people lose significant weight.
  Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said the Food and Drug Administration approved its once-a-week shot for people with Type 2 diabetes. The drug, Ozempic, also known as semaglutide, works by stimulating the body’s own insulin production and reducing appetite.
  In one big company-funded study, Ozempic, on average, reduced long-term blood
  
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