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EatingWell

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How to Turn Your Hot Dog Healthy

EatingWell | Posted August 6, 2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Nutrition, Healthy BBQ, Healthy Living Body, High-Sodium Hot Dogs, Healthy Grilling, Healthy Hot Dog, Hot Dog Toppings, Slidepollajax

By Joyce Hendley, contributing editor for EatingWell Magazine

Sure, it's not health food -- but a hot-off-the-grill, juicy, hot dog is one of summer’s great pleasures. The good news is it’s the calorie bargain of the barbecue: you’re better off with a 100- to 150-calorie dog on a bun than...

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Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.

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10 Movie Snacks to Pick Instead of Popcorn

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted August 6, 2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Nutrition, Healthy Living Body, Healthy Snack Alternatives, Healthy Snacks, Movie Theater Snacks, Movie Theater Treats, Healthy Movie Snacks

When you are at the movies the aroma of popcorn hits you as soon as you walk though the door. For many people, the experience of going to the movies includes popcorn, soda and candy. These high-calorie treats can be scarier than the next blockbuster horror flick! With a little...

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Neal M. Blitz, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S.

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How Young Is Too Young for High Heels?

Neal M. Blitz, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S. | Posted August 6, 2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Beauty And Skin, Healthy Living Body, High Heels Bunions, High Heels Foot Problems, High Heels Hammer Toe, Little Girls Heels, High Heels Health, Orthopedics, Personal Health

French Vogue recently illustrated a 10-year-old model, Thylane Loubry Blondeau, in a high fashion photo shoot wearing makeup and skyscraper high heels. This has gained media attention and debate over the appropriate age for young girls to be portrayed in such a manner.

But how young is too...

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Robert L. Cavnar

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S&P; Downgrade: Tea Party Wins Battle, Loses War

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted August 5, 2011 | Politics

Read More: Credit Rating Downgrade, Downgrade, Economy, Standard And Poor's, Tea Party

The Republicans, led by the Tea Party, have finally succeeded in another step in their quest to wreck the US economy, oddly believing that it will help them win the 2012 election.  Their slash and burn, no-revenue dogma that won out in the manufactured debt crisis that came to a...

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Andrea Learned

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Plain Sight Sustainability, Mass Consumer Influence

Andrea Learned | Posted August 5, 2011 | Green

Read More: Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Sustainability, Csr, Green Campus, Green Church, Green Students, Institutional Sustainability, Sustainable Business, Sustainable Campus

Because of its potential to change the minds of those people and businesses not currently in the sustainability choir, what I call sustainability hidden in plain sight is an intriguing concept. Take me, as a choir member example. I attend the conferences, read and write for green business publications, and...

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Joel John Roberts

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Are Charities the Dumping Ground for a Society of Excess?

Joel John Roberts | Posted August 5, 2011 | Impact

Read More: Third World America, Charity, Donations, Hgtv, Homelessness, Tax-Writeoff

Property virgins on the HGTV cable television show always coo at large walk-in closets when they stroll through a home for sale. Why? Because we all have to admit we have way too much stuff stockpiling in those post-World War II stucco boxed homes with closets so tight you get...

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Elissa Stein

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How Much Is that Kidney in the Window?

Elissa Stein | Posted August 5, 2011 | Impact

Read More: Kidney Donors, Organ Donations, Black Market Organs, Transplant

In this week's British Medical Journal, an opinion piece called for a reversal on the ban of selling human organs for money. As there is such a discrepancy between those in need of organs and those willing to donate, the author suggested standard monetary incentives for potential donors could potentially...

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Randy Susan Meyers

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A Homemade MFA

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted August 5, 2011 | Books

Read More: Arthur Golden, Betsy Lerner, Catherine Wald, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Benedict, Elizabeth Lyon, Jenna Blum, Jessica Page Morrell, Joni B. Cole, MJ Rose, Marget Drabble, Nancy Kress, Noah Lukeman, Renni Browne, Stephen Koch, Susan Bell, Writing Books, David King, Mfa, Revision, Robin Robertson, Stephen King, Writing

"How did you get published? Do you have an MFA?" a reader asked last week. I struggled for the right answer -- how to tell her that, no, I don't have an MFA, but still, I credit being published on other people's teaching.

A number of years ago (about ten...

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Jodi Beggs

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With Government Spending, the When Matters as Much as the How Much

Jodi Beggs | Posted August 5, 2011 | Politics

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Automatic Stabilizers, Fiscal Policy, Government Spending
In order to begin a discussion about government spending, let's compare two scenarios:

Scenario 1: Let's call this the "eat what you kill" scenario, although the government would prefer to call this the "balanced budget" scenario. In this scenario, the government can only spend what it takes in in...

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Chris Weigant

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Friday Talking Points -- More Tea, Anyone?

Chris Weigant | Posted August 5, 2011 | Politics

Read More: American People, Barack Obama, Chris Weigant, Class Warfare, Debt Ceiling, Extremist Party, Friday Talking Points, Gabby Giffords, Gabrielle Giffords, Harry Reid, Joe Biden, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week, Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week, Wall Street, Biden, Big Banks, Boehner, Brinksmanship, Compromise, Congress, Crisis, Debt, Deficit, Democrat, Democratic, Democrats, Extremism, Extremist, Faa, Giffords, House, Kitchen Table, Mainstream, Mcconnell, Mddotw, Middle Class, Midotw, Obama, Populism, Populist, President Obama, Reid, Republican, Senate, Tax, Tax The Rich, Taxes, Tea Partier, Tea Party, Teachers, Terrorist

With the conclusion of the debt ceiling "crisis," the media pivoted swiftly to their standard larger questions (to them, at any rate) about any political event these days: "Who won? Who lost?"

Sigh. Well, in this one, we all lost. America lost. As the public got a close look at...

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Joan Blades

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Telework: A Breakthrough Solution for Business, Workers, Climate

Joan Blades | Posted August 5, 2011 | Technology

Read More: Commuting, Employment, Environment, Telework, Virtual Work, Work, Work-Life Balance

Did you know that this year the federal government promoted a week dedicated to telework?
The intent was to encourage government agencies to overcome obstacles and discover the advantages of virtual work. General Services Administration administrator Martha Johnson explained, "Telework is revolutionizing the way government works, helping us...

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Steven Van Zandt

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Snow Flower Soars Above the Lowest Common Denominator Culture

Steven Van Zandt | Posted August 5, 2011 | Culture

Read More: Snow Flower And The Secret Fan, Chick Flicks, Film, Film Review, Friendship, Pop Culture

I will never be mistaken for a movie reviewer, but I just saw a film that struck me as both important and one that might slip under our increasingly comic book and video game dominated pop culture radar.

In the spirit of full disclaimer, my usual taste in...

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Clarence B. Jones

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Presidential Words Still Matter

Clarence B. Jones | Posted August 5, 2011 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Obama Birthday, Election 2012, Faa, Language, Speech, Unemployment

A drop in the unemployment rate from 9.2 to 9.1% was a welcomed 50th birthday present for President Obama, along with the new agreement of the FAA and the Air Traffic Controllers approved by Congress. A second birthday present for the president would be for his speech writers to go...

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Jason Hirschhorn

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You Sold Your Company, So What Did You Buy First? Here's What I Did

Jason Hirschhorn | Posted August 5, 2011 | Business

Read More: Entrepreneurs, First Big Check, First Paycheck, Getting Rich, Spending Money

Having some money all of a sudden is a weird thing. I've always wondered what entrepreneurs do when they hit it. What do they buy, if anything? How do they react to newfound ducats?

Does life become a '90s rap video? Cham' bustin' 24/7?

I basically had no money in...

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Susan Buchanan

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Developers Install Alternative Energy in Old and New Structures

Susan Buchanan | Posted August 5, 2011 | Green

Read More: Electricity Bills, Entergy New Orleans, Global Green USA, National Renewable Energy Lab, China, Metering, Net-Zero Energy, Solar Systems, Trash Disposal, Utilities, Water Heaters

During a power outage, you may have groped your way through a hall or stairwell, praying that the lights come on soon. Today's developers are installing solar and other equipment to produce on-site power that runs when storms or fires disrupt electrical utilities.

In the Warehouse District in downtown...

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Larry Magid

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FBI's First iPhone App Lets Parents Store Children's ID

Larry Magid | Posted August 5, 2011 | Technology

Read More: Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Fbi, iPhone Apps

The FBI has released a simple iPhone app that can store information about your children and send it to authorities in the unlikely event they go missing. Parents fill out information about the child in the app and use it to take a photo of the child. The data is...

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Stanton Peele

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Who's Responsible for Amy's Death?

Stanton Peele | Posted August 5, 2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Alcoholics Anonymous, Amy Winehouse, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living Mind, Mental Health, Rehab

The writer of the song "Rehab" -- with the lyric, "They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, 'No, no, no,'" -- has died at age 27. And although a senior London police officer has urged the media not to speculate over the cause of her death (which...

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Andrew Gunther

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Cargill's Tainted Turkey: Just the Tip of the Iceberg?

Andrew Gunther | Posted August 5, 2011 | Food

Read More: Animals, Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Antibiotics In Meat, Antibiotics Resistance, Cargill Turkey, Cargill Turkey Salmonella, Ground Turkey Recall, Ground Turkey Salmonella, Infected Turkey, Salmonella, Salmonella Heidelberg, Salmonella Outbreak, Tainted Turkey, Turkey Salmonella

How many more lives must be lost or irreversibly damaged before we finally accept the fact that industrialized farming is killing us?

On July 29, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a nationwide outbreak of a deadly strain of Salmonella food poisoning that...

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Peter Baksa

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Attract Anything You Want Through Focused Intention?

Peter Baksa | Posted August 5, 2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Attracting, Attracting Your Desires, Attraction, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, Laws Of Attraction

There are three main pillars that form the law of attraction (LOA) on which the process is based. First is desire, which comes from contrast, as we have discussed in last weeks' HuffPost article -- changing your thinking to view negative life situations as potential opportunities. You naturally ask for...

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Betwa Sharma

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Sex, Murder and Videotape From the Middle East

Betwa Sharma | Posted August 5, 2011 | Arts

Read More: Carlton Hotel, Henri Pharon, Karol Schayer, Antinormanybody, Artists, Beirut, Iran, Lebanon

Colorful lingerie and risqué poetry describe the frustration of a sexually dissatisfied Iranian woman in a video called Every Night Three Kisses by artist Negar Behbahani. "When everything is over in the first twelve seconds, every night this confounded countdown," says the protagonist.

Behbahani, who is from Iran, had to...

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