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...Read a brief history of fad diets...
Everybody makes mistakes. In journalism, a profession devoted to keeping people properly informed, those errors can be embarrassing. That's why a blog called Regret The Error keeps track of the fourth estate's follies. Freelance journalist Craig Silverman started the project in 2004 after reading the following correction from Lexington, Kent., Herald-Leader: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the Civil Rights Movement. We regret the omission." Silverman has been tracking media-related corrections ever since. Regret the Error's annual "best of" list went...
...Read "Sweet! Swiss Invent a No-Melt, Low-Cal Chocolate...
...Read "McSweeney's Proves Print Isn't Dead...
...that are removing the brown liquid from lunchrooms. One 8-oz. serving of reduced-fat chocolate milk has nearly as many calories and sugar as a 12-oz. can of Coke. Encouraging students to regularly consume the drink, they say, is contributing to an already worrying childhood obesity crisis. (Read a brief history of school lunches...