Attention Whole Foods Shoppers: Buy your turkeys and trimmings before Thanksgiving. Massachusetts has warned the upscale Whole Foods supermarket chain that it will risk criminal charges under the state's "blue laws" if it goes ahead with plans to open on the holiday.

David Lannon, president of Whole Foods Market's North Atlantic Region, said its Massachusetts stores will remain closed on Thanksgiving. "We're not going to break the law, he said. "If the blue law says we'll have to be closed, we have to be closed." Some Whole Foods stores in the state had opened on Thanksgiving Day in the past after obtaining special permits from cities and towns and were mobbed by last-minute shoppers

The infamously grueling schedules that resident doctors are required to work leave them so fatigued that their reaction times are equal to someone who is slightly drunk, researchers say on Tuesday.

Resident doctors following a "heavy call" schedule that can require a 90-hour work week performed more poorly on a driving simulation test than those on a "light call" rotation averaging 44 hours a week who then drank liquor until their blood alcohol level reached 0.05 percent, the study says

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"Those who routinely see the consequences of drink-fueled violence in offences of rape, grievous bodily harm and worse on a daily basis are in no doubt that an escalation of offenses of this nature will inevitably be caused by the relaxation of liquor licensing which the government has now authorized," said a Circuit Judge