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Pizza for Breakfast, Anyone?
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Moms have always had to cajole their kids to eat their greens. It's an age-old struggle. But as processed foods dominate supermarket aisles, with their low-prices and high flavor (thanks to lots of sodium and sugar), has the challenge to feed our children healthy food taken on a new dimension?
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Women Who Drink Stay Slimmer
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What they found was that women who consumed the equivalent of a half a drink to one drink per day were 30 percent less likely to be overweight or obese at the end of the study. The women who tended to drink red wine were less likely to put on weight.
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Couple Starves Baby While Playing A Video Game
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According to the police in Seoul, the couple, a 25-year-old woman and 41-year-old man, had lost their jobs and used the game as an escape from reality. It is being speculated that they were also using the game as a distraction from having to deal with caring for the premature birth of their now deceased daughter.
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Animal Abusers Beware
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Aside from reporting about people who maim and kill animals, the bill would also help to publicly report those who have taken part in animal-fighting rings and people who have the tendency to hoard multiple animals in unsanitary conditions. Proponents of the registry also claim the registry will help law enforcement detect people who may have the tendency to harm others since abusing animals can be a precursor to violence to humans.
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HIV/AIDS: What Women Need To Know
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Gunter says that most women are more worried about getting pregnant rather than contracting HIV. By the time teens hit the 9th grade, it is reported that 33 percent of them are sexually active while only 45 percent of those that are sexually active teens are using condoms.
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Bringing Up Babies In Bars
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Parents defending the practice of bringing their little ones into the local pub blame the high cost of babysitters in cities and small living quarters for their need to get out with their child every once in a while. Most will contest that they as long as they are responsible about it and keep their kids well behaved then there is nothing wrong with having them in the more family friendly bars.
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Sink, Swim, Or Help Someone Else
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Both ships held passengers of similar economic statuses, ages, and genders. A group of researchers from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, headed by economist Benno Torgler, studied the two shipwrecks as a way to further explore an economic theory "that people generally behave in a rational and selfish manner."
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Will A Woman Director Finally Get An Oscar?
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Bigelow's choice of subject matter in past movies like "Blue Steel"and "Strange Days" has never been what people would expect of a woman director. The truth is, most people expect women to deal with more relationship-based plots like Sofia Copolla's "Lost In Translation" rather than the action packed films Bigelow churns out.
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When Discipline Turns Deadly
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Don King told Usa Today that he was completely unaware that his son received this type of discipline. Kings say, "It took the death of my son for everybody to start listening about this problem. I wish we had known they were locking him up like that or we would have taken him out of that school. They treated my kid like a prisoner."
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Chatroulette: Will You 'Play The Game'?
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Chatroulette is not all bad though. For every inappropriate encounter, there is an enlightening one it seems. Some users are taking advantage of the site in creative ways, connecting with a person from France to brush up on the French they are learning, broadcasting their music to other users around the world, using it as a dating site, drawing portraits of strangers they encounter, and much more.
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