Discovery Channel good times Turns out that Wednesday was the big night for frog sex. Frogs everywhere crawled out of hibernation and hopped all over each other like it was last call at the Frog Rock Cafe. To hear the wildlife people talk, it was a frog orgy out there in the mud. How sad […]
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Toting a lunch bag becomes trend
Frugality is the new black. Throw in the terms “eco-friendly” and “healthier,” and the result is a trifecta of hip. Who knew packing a lunch could symbolize so much? “It’s every penny counts,” says Kevin Wehr, an assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento. “It’s expensive to go out to eat, and when […]
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Chocolate dipped kettle chips
BC-FEA–Food-Chocolate Chips,0176 A new view of chocolate chips – as in potato chips AP Photo NYLS108 By The Associated Press For a delicious blast of sweet and salty, try chocolate-dipped potato chips as a snack or light dessert. Topped with crushed nuts, salt and cayenne pepper, these treats pair nicely with a bold red wine […]
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Eats: Central Maine Medical Center
We’re back at the hospitals again this week, and, like last week at St. Mary’s, we’re finding that the food at Central Maine Medical Center is far from the institutional stereotype of the past. Latte anyone? That’s just the beginning at the coffee shop in the still-new lobby of Central Maine Medical Center, off High […]
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Organic cough drops? Try honey
Organix Cough and Sore Throat Drops (PHOTO) By Jodi Mailander Farrell McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) Product: Organix Cough and Sore Throat Drops, $3.99 for 24 drops (honey lemon, cherry, dark chocolate mint or peppermint) at Walgreens, Rite Aid, Kmart, Winn-Dixie and Whole Foods. Key ingredients: menthol (from organic peppermint oil), pectin, organic evaporated cane juice, organic […]
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Take a whif of this chocolate
BC-NTR-INHALABLE-CHOCOLATE:TB – lifestyle, food (300 words) A whiff of luxury: Take Le Whif’ of inhalable chocolate By Steve Schmadeke Chicago Tribune (MCT) It had to happen eventually. Someone-a Harvard professor and Illinois Institute of Technology graduate-has developed inhalable chocolate. The product, called Le Whif, will make its debut in the United States at next month’s […]
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Perfect One not so perfect
BC-FASH-PERFECTONE:TB – lifestyle (900 words) How does the Perfect One’ bra hold up? (DIVERSITY) (PHOTO) By Ellen Warren Chicago Tribune (MCT) So Heidi Klum is saying, “You know if you really have a bad hair day? That can kind of put you in a bad mood. And it’s the same way when you have a […]
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Talk of the Town
Ammo shortage This news emerged less than a week after a dozen people were shot and killed at a civics association in New York, four were shot at a Christian retreat in California and varying numbers of others were blasted in the states between. Somebody poke me when the inventory of hate and discontent runs […]