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    0 starslaurel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2008 | health, food, news
    Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say - New York Times

    Is there a rule that headlines have to be incoherent now?

    "go unfound"? "sex diseases"

    Quoted: Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say

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    0 starslaurel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 25 2008 | food, seattle, news

    Quoted: Seattle residents would be able to toss meat and dairy scraps into yard-waste containers and quit separating recyclable materials next year under a plan announced ...

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    0 starslaurel | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 28 2008 | food, book, news
    Playing With Their Food - WSJ.com

    Because what will solve all of our problems is more extruded factory food.

    Quoted: It may well be that industrially packaged macaroni and cheese inoculated with white-bean purée (Lapine) or home-boiled macaroni with reduced fat cheddar and some cauliflower ...

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    0 starslaurel | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 22 2007 | food, news
    A Two-Cigarette Society - New York Times

    WTF is a cigarette without nicotine? And who would buy it?

    Quoted: If we can prevent cigarette addiction at the outset, we shouldn’t waste another day.

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    0 starslaurel | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2007 | food, news, anorexia
    AlterNet: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body

    I work on a website that sometimes seems to be overrun by anorexics...

    Quoted: Thinness and beauty are prerequisites for perfection, which to today's young women appears to be the only road to happiness. Under that logic, women's bodies ...

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    0 starslaurel | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 08 2007 | food, obesity, news
    Over-the-Counter Weight-Loss Drug Is Approved - New York Times

    The packaging looks like an ipod

    Quoted: In studies, about half of those taking Alli in combination with a diet and exercise plan lost 5 percent or more of their body weight ...

    Isn't that what's supposed to happen with "a diet and exercise plan" anyway? Oh, and you get "occasional loss of bowel control" too...

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