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Are You A Human Test Subject?
According to the New York Times, by the end of this summer 11% of the food items on supermarket shelves will be labeled "reduced sugar" - most of those targeted at kids and their moms. Sales in granulated sugar have dropped 4% in the past six months. What's behind this trend? Splenda. Products featuring Splenda are perceived as "natural" because of the FDA's press r...
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Timeless Kopp Modernistic Glass
In 1928 Nicholas Kopp designed a very modern and futuristic line of glassware that was named Modernistic. The Modernistic line is often confused with Ruba Rombic manufactured by the Consolidated Lamp Company. The Kopp Glass, Inc. was the second incarnation of the company. Kopp formed the first Kopp Glass Company in 1900. After acquiring new partners in 1901, the n...
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Obama's Advance Care Planning for Dummies
The U.S. House of Representatives finally released the text of the health care bill called ··America·s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009·· HR 3200 and it can now be read in its 1,018 page entirety. The bill's subtitle is " A Bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purpo...
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Making a quilt for a healthy America
OK, I don't really care about health care in France and the "fact" that everybody there loves it. Equally, I could care less that "everybody" in Canada or Great Britain hates theirs. Because, in reality, nobody is proposing that those countries run our health care system. Nobody. What is important is that ours is not working for a lot of people. Estimates I have hear...
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