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During my coffee break this morning, I found out the status of Shaquille O'Neal's thumb surgery, learned Jim Carrey's thoughts about killer whales and caught up with the hectic clubbing schedule of Snooki from Jersey Shore. Sure, I've never met these people in person, but I know all about their lives from Twitter...
After 13 years, women consuming the highest amount of alcohol per day (more than two drinks daily) were 30% less likely to be overweight and nearly 70% less likely to be obese than nondrinkers, the team found. "We certainly don't want to encourage nondrinkers to adopt alcohol as a method for weight control, but we were surprised by the strength of the association," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's and a co-author of the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...adjust its expectations accordingly. If it is, then Europeans can start the real work of public diplomacy, speaking out for their asserted virtues of tolerance, compromise and liberality, not in a condescending way, but in one that explains how the world's true dark continent in the 20th century found a path to peace. And the E.U. could work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest - ensuring that Bosnia does not slip back into conflict, working closely with Turkey to ensure its enormous potential for encouraging a new prosperity to Europe's East is realized, reaching...
...Colorado voters did so by amending the state constitution in 2000. But with drug possession still a federal offense, it wasn't until the Justice Department said in October it would refrain from prosecuting medical-marijuana cases that dispensaries began to proliferate. In Colorado, particularly, they've found fertile ground: when the first dispensary opened in the capital three years ago, it didn't even have a sign in the window. Today, according to an estimate by the Denver Post, the city has more pot shops than it does Starbucks, and twice as many as it has public schools...
House spirit is alternately unassuming and declarative. Since Winthrop has won the Straus Cup twice in a row, the word “Three-peat!” has become a common rallying cry. Apart from intramural sports, Winthrop’s House community can be found in the dining hall on any given night, where students often study and hang...