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Entries from April 21st, 2010

Komen & KFC Team Up Despite Obvious Disconnect

April 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Cancer, Health

Friends on Facebook are buzzing about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s partnership with KFC to raise money off the Colonel’s famous recipe. Fifty cents from every bucket goes toward breast cancer research. Only trouble is, fried chicken is linked to obesity and obesity is linked to increased risk of breast cancer and increased breast cancer [...]

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Drum: Kill NCLB, Unite a Nation

April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Education, Politics and media

Last week I wrote about Patrick Ruffini’s discussion of Republicans’ policy failure on health care. If anyone read Ruffini’s whole post, you’d have seen that, never mind his generally sensible takedown of Republican strategy, he wrote some delusional prose about No Child Left Behind.
At the outset of his Administration, George W. Bush set out to [...]

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