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"70% of all antibiotics (about 13 million pounds)... →
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- Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) case against the overuse of antibiotics in animal food and water. The change came in part out of concerns that the use of antibiotics on animals was helping to breed resistant bacteria. An estimated 100,000 people a year now die from hospital-acquired bacterial infections that can no longer be...
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How to get davereed worked up into a frenzy:
Just say, “The new Star Trek movie was in the same spirit as the old ‘Star Trek’ show, only better.”
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esquisse asked: How did you get "Go Portugal" on your profile photo?
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20-minute neighborhoods →
davidgalestudios:
Fast Company interview with Portland mayor Sam Adams, on working to make every section of Portland a complete 20-minute neighborhood to strengthen the local economy.
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“Our minds need to go on a diet.
One of the more embarrassing and...”
– Alain de Botton
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WatchAvatar Review by Red Letter Media
I love redlettermedia so much. His review of Avatar is spot-on. If you haven’t heard his extensive reviews of StarWars: Episode 1 and Episode 2, you owe it to yourself to set a few hours aside and watch them.
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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s...”
– C.S. Lewis
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My coworker’s friend bought a used car and afterwards filled out a customer satisfaction survey. He wrote the following in the comments section:
“Camaro works fine but when it transforms into a robot it doesn’t make the cool sound from the movie. It just makes some lame clinking/grinding sounds”
The dealership actually wrote him a response:
“With regards to your...
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Chipotle Wants to Turn Your Junk E-mail into... →
hilker:
“The program –- called “No Junk” –- encourages people to forward their spam to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com. For every 100,000 messages received at that address, Chipotle plans to donate $10,000 to The Lunch Box, a non-profit organization that provides resources to schools to help them make their food programs healthier.”
At first I thought it was going to be some kind of...
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Leno has lower ratings than Conan did →
caseydonahue:
Good job NBC!
I love this comment by Version3:
“It will be nice to see Leno attempt to gracefully slip into nothingness. He’s the only one who doesn’t believe he’s irrelevant.”
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Manliest Cities in America →
menstrom:
The COMBOS® “America’s Manliest Cities” study ranks 50 major metropolitan areas, using manly criteria like the number of home improvement stores, steak houses, pickup trucks and motorcycles per capita.
Top 10:
1. Charlotte, NC 2. Columbus, OH 3. Kansas City, MO 4. Nashville, TN 5. Baltimore, MD 6. Milwaukee, WI 7. Chicago, IL 8. Indianapolis, IN 9. Washington, D.C. 10....
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