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"Beezin" trend has teens using Burt's Bees lip balm on eyelids to enhance drug, alcohol effects | more

NY bill would bar condoms as proof of prostitution

Southern Whites' Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats

7 Lies We Have to Stop Telling About African-American Girls

Cyber self-harm: Why do people troll themselves online? -- "9% [of students] had anonymously cyberbullied themselves."

Love hormone 'helps autistic brain' -- oxytocin

Sounds are sound among dyslexics, but access may lag, study finds -- "[T]he white matter tracts connecting the phoneme area to a part of the brain that contains the Broca's area, which regulates the conversion of language to speech, was weaker for the dyslexics as a group[.]"

Women With Big Butts Are Smarter And Resistant To Chronic Illnesses -- I like big butts & I can't deny.

Healthier Diets Cost About $550 More Per Year Than Unhealthy Options -- This is a real issue. I spend my food-stamp dollars on nutritious food. This means I have less per month for food bulk. I buy few canned goods but instead invest in fresh food, which is liable to spoil. It's better for me but more likely to rot. What do you think most families will do? They will attempt to stretch their food dollar (which, apparently, to me is a luxury). This is one of the factors making it difficult for low-income youths to catch up with their more-monied counterparts. (Let's not even get into how hunger affects attention spans for school-aged children, shall we?)

Marijuana Use Puts Men At Risk of "Moobs", Plastic Surgeon -- From what I understand, one plastic surgeon came to this conclusion after examining the data. I would like more voices on this subject; an actual experiment designed to detect this would be the best. The bestest, even.

MIT Devise World's Toughest Tongue Twister to Link Speech Errors to Brain -- "Pad kid poured curd pulled cod"? That is not difficult to me in the least. Do the volunteers have a stopwatch where they need to say the phrase in a certain amount of time? Do you, any of my followers, have difficulty?

1.34-million-year-old human ancestor had 'massive' arm bones for climbing trees -- Paranthropus boisei

Reinstatement of Texas abortion law leaves few options for many poor pregnant women -- Make no mistake. The wealthy will always have the ability to have an abortion if they so wish.

Food stamp cuts take effect, hurting families

A War on the Poor (NYT)

University of Connecticut is sued over handling of sexual assaults

Stop-and-frisk: Bloomberg hails ruling, but victory likely short-lived -- "'I mean, for the court to issue a stay of the remedy, that's one thing,' says Randolph McLaughlin, co-chair of the civil rights practice group at Newman Ferrara LLP in New York. 'But for the court to, without being asked, to remove a sitting federal judge from a landmark case like this, which she has spent so many years shepherding, I think it, well, certainly it's unprecedented, and I think what's most troubling here is that no one asked for that relief.'"

Kraft removing artificial dyes from some mac and cheese

Germany allows 'indeterminate' gender at birth -- "Germany has become Europe's first country to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female."

Lay's announces chocolate-covered potato chips to go on sale next week -- My first reaction was one of disgust.

BYU Study: Texting Can Harm Relationships | abstract of study