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Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. For years that's how we've been told to think of the waxy, fat-like substance in blood playing a key role in determining whether we get heart disease.

Ian Paton, 65, spent up to six hours a day working to grow the pumpkin, which weighed 2,856.8lb (1295.8kg), the same as a female hippopotamus.

Surely only a heart of stone would deny a mother the ­opportunity to ask questions about her only daughter's death.

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To mark the occasion, the 45-year-old singer and 44-year-old actress each posted tributes to each other on social media.

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The black-and-white litter, who have been given humorous beverage-themed names, had been disposed of on a Grimsby street at just eight weeks old.

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Martin Goff snapped the majestic bird as it swooped from its perch to feed at a Shropshire lake on September 30.

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The star said he was physically 'acting out [his] dreams' before he learned he had the neurodegenerative disease.

Nearly six decades after the footage was given to English Heritage, the movie will be shown to the public for the first time this weekend.

From this spring, up to 20 councils plan to deliver instruction leaflets to parents alongside their primary school place offer.

The classic record, which was released in December 1965, has been re-released with 24 early session recordings, which includes 20 previously unreleased takes.

Last night Ms Kidman, 59 - who was accompanied by her younger daughter, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, 15 - made a grand entrance at Chanel's Paris Fashion Week show.

The 82-year-old, who has been with the corporation for six decades, predicted it will no longer exist unless funding is sorted out - and he branded viewers who do not pay the licence fee 'shoplifters'.

Wired reports that rural data center projects could become eligible for expanded federal Opportunity Zone tax benefits starting in 2027, with more than 100 planned or developing facilities potentially qualifying. "Right now, the only requirement to get the benefits is capital investment," says Emily Kraschel, a tax policy analyst at the Searchlight Institute, a public policy think tank. "However, that doesn't guarantee that that money is necessarily creating jobs or creating a local economic boost. You'd be more sure of that with a more traditional factory that requires lots of workers. But with a data center, that assumption goes a little wonky." From the report: During the first Trump administration, a bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed the creation of the opportunity zone program, which offers tax benefits for companies that choose to build projects in certain low-income census tracts. Last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act made a number of changes to open up the program in order to attract more investment to rural areas. Kraschel and her colleagues from Searchlight have been researching data center projects that might qualify for these tax benefits, comparing the locations of data center projects in development with rural census tracts eligible for the new program. Wired exclusively reviewed the research compiled by Searchlight and found more than 100 data centers under various stages of development in rural areas that could be eligible. Searchlight used a very conservative database of under 700 data center projects that are planned or under construction to compile its research; other datasets put the number of data centers in development in the US at closer to 1,500. It's very likely that the number of newly eligible projects is bigger, especially since more data centers are decamping from urban areas. Separate research from Pew found that while just 13 percent of operating data centers are located in rural areas, a majority of planned facilities -- around 67 percent -- are going rural. [...] A project simply existing in a rural opportunity zone doesn't mean the company automatically will get the tax benefits; the company has to create a specialized investment vehicle to kickstart the process. Because the tax break can be considered confidential IRS data, it's next to impossible to know which companies are pursuing the benefits unless they voluntarily disclose. [...] Nathan Jensen, a government professor at the University of Texas-Austin, says that he would be "very surprised" if some companies were not considering siting in rural opportunity zones as part of their decisionmaking process. "It's essentially free money," he says. There is no requirement for projects getting opportunity zone benefits to create jobs; the assumption is that they will do so, simply by siting in the community itself. This isn't always the case for projects like storage facilities and warehouses, which, Jensen says, have been popular choices for developers working in opportunity zones. Data centers may create a number of jobs in the short term for their construction, but there's an ongoing debate about whether or not they create a lasting new workforce over the longer term.

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