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Scientists have come up with these top 10 reasons as to why people are fat:

"1. Inadequate sleep. (Average sleep amounts have fallen, and many studies tie sleep deprivation to weight gain.)  Read More »

http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=politics&id=20060628/44a1fec0_3421_1334520060628941563125

"WASHINGTON - The narrow defeat of a proposal to ban flag desecration marks the second time in a month Senate Republicans have lost bids to amend the Constitution in ways designed to inspire social conservatives to vote in the midterm elections."  Read More »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13374037/

"First, it was the corset. Now, the fashion industry has brought back skin-tight jeans, disco leotards and 7-inch platforms. And for accessories? Look for corns, bunions, sprained ankles, bruises, yeast infections and chafing.

Heather Swanson, a 33-year-old photographer from Manhattan, broke a bone and ripped a ligament in her foot while wearing her favorite pair of 5 ½-inch leopard-print platforms."  Read More »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13553841/

"WASHINGTON - People with long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides have a 70 percent higher incidence of Parkinson’s disease than people who have not been exposed much to bug sprays, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Such workers include mostly farmers, ranchers and fishermen, the researchers report in the July issue of Annals of Neurology."  Read More »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13554447/

"WASHINGTON - New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke a tie Monday to rule that Kansas’ death penalty law is constitutional.

By a 5-to-4 vote, the justices said the Kansas Supreme Court incorrectly interpreted the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment to strike down the state’s death penalty statute.  Read More »

Throughout a person's childhood, they are always asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"  Growing up is so important in society.  The whole point of working hard throughout your schooling is to have a successful future, but at what point does a person actualy "grow up?

In elementary school, we all looked up to the 4th graders.  They were so old.  Then once we graduated from 4th grade into middle school, we were the little kids again.  In middle school, it was the cool 8th graders we all looked up to.  But yet again, once we graduated from 8th grade, we were the stupid high school freshmen.  Now my high school graduation is tomorrow night, but I know that once the end of August comes, I'll be a freshman again, but this time in college.  And once I graduate from college, I'll be the new employee who has to prove myself to my boss.  Read More »

Here is a simple world to help change the world for the better and the only thing required is a few little mouse clicks.

1.  The Hunger Site http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites  Every day that you visit this site and click on the link saying, "Help Feed The Hungry," you give staple food to the hungry.  Today each click was worth 1.1 cups of food.  Now, each individual can only click once per day, but that adds up when millions of people are doing it all over the world.  Today after I clicked the link, it said "Today, you and others have generated the value of 113,996 cups of food. Thank you!"  Read More »

Recently there was a People magazine article about couples who have separated, yet are still living in the same house or apartment together. Is this really a healthy living style?

One of the couples live together because when they separated, their two dogs got very depressed an lonely.  I absolutely love dogs, but I just don't know if I would be willing to live with my ex, just so the dogs could be happy.  Read More »