Author Archive for Cynicow

The 20th Century is Officially History

San Francisco-based Sharper Image plans to close 90 of its 184 stores as soon as possible after it sells their inventories. It plans to continue to conduct business as usual while it develops a reorganization plan.

Sharper Image files for bankruptcy - U.S. business- msnbc.com.

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Study: Artificial Sweetener Causes Obesity

The study, made by a team from the Purdue University in Indiana, suggested artificial sweeteners, which have zero or very low calories, seem to have destroyed the physiological link between sweet tastes and calories, resulting to rats fed with sweeteners overeating.

Study: Artificial Sweetener Breaks Connection Between Sweet Taste, Calories | AHN

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Marriage may tame genius

The energy of youth and the dampening effect of marriage, he adds, are also remarkably similar among geniuses in music, painting and writing, as well as in criminal activity.

Sci Tech News - from ABC News Online

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Ben & Jerry’s vs. Monsanto

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., one of the first companies to label its ice cream as free of a synthetic hormone, is protesting a move by some states to restrict such labeling.
The ice cream maker has joined a national campaign to block what critics say is an effort driven by Monsanto Co., which markets recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, also known as recombinant bovine growth hormone, or rBGH.

Ben & Jerry’s in a fight over labeling - Food Inc.- msnbc.com.

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Bravo! Short and to the point

Op-ed: Shopping Without Asterisks

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Middle-age is truly depressing, study finds

LONDON (Reuters) - Middle age is truly miserable, according to a study using data from 80 countries showing that depression is most common among men and women in their forties.

Yahoo! News

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Hawaii Moves To Ban Aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal, Etc)

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds it is imperative for the public health, safety and welfare to declare that aspartame and its derivative compounds, in all of their trade names, are poisonous and deleterious food additives due to their neurotoxic and carcinogenic metabolites.

rense.com

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Suing Big Companies In Small Claims Court Is Fun And Easy

typical expenditure for a small claims suit: $24 and 45 minutes. The $24 is the cost to file a claim. The 45 minutes includes his total time of driving to and from court to file, as well as the time spent on the phone with the company when they call to settle.

Consumerist

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Unfavorable drug studies don’t get into print: report

The idea that unfavorable test results are quietly tucked away so nobody will see them — sometimes call the “file drawer effect” — has been around for years.

Yahoo! News

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Fox News hates cows (spoiler alert: Fox wins)

Just write it the way the lawyers want it written…we’ll tell you what the news is

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