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Experts detail the benefits of swimming, from strengthening your muscles to reducing inflammation and boosting your mental health—and how to get started. Swimming offers a low-impact exercise with ...

FOR THE most part, rodents make people shriek in disgust. But the largest rodent of all, strangely, does not. The capybara, a hirsute native of South America, typically provokes squeals of delight. It ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dozens of qualified swimmers jumped into the Chicago River on Sunday morning. The Chicago River Swim marked the return of competitive open-water swimming in the river in nearly a ...