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The Dog and Cat Food Conspiracy

We don't even know if cats and dogs like the taste of chicken gristle, beef liver, pig snout, racehorses and other objects commonly found in hot dogs.

Pros and Cons of Pre-Marital Sex

How to Re-Spark A Marriage
If you are hitting a lull in your love life, maybe this article will do you some good. Do not panic. Do not rush and get a divorce. A lot of people feel the same way you do.

2012 Volkswagen Passat: Bringing Unusual Features to a Mainstream Segment
The 2012 Passat is Volkswagen's first German-American offspring that satisfies for its European sensitivity and U.S.-spec comfort and compliance. The new model was re-engineered to meet the demands and expectations of this country, and it is the first model built at the new factory in Chattanooga, Tenn.


Assault With a Deadly Vegetable
Each night when my girlfriend, Christine, gets home from work I can generally tell by the look on her face how her day went. On this particular evening it appeared as though someone had thrown an entire box of scalding hot French fries in her face. Upon further inquiry, it turns out that someone had.

Personalized Responsibility Has Role in Cancer Fight

The news about cancer continues to be good. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that death rates decreased by 1.6 percent annually from 2004 to 2008 for lung, colorectal and prostate cancer. Death rates from breast cancer have remained stable — but steep declines occurred in the early 2000s because of reduced use of hormone replacement therapy. But the death rates from certain cancers are increasing.


Encourage Kids to Play Outdoors and Appreciate Nature

Kids should play outdoors, period. When kids are exploring, riding bikes, playing ball and running about outside, they're not overeating, watching too much TV or engaging in inappropriate video-game playing. These helpful new books encourage children to go out and play.

How Does God Talk to You?
 God can talk by thunder because thunder is really God talking out loud," says Dianna, 8.

Trayvon Martin: Moving From a Moment to a Movement
The shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and its galvanizing effect on African-Americans has been compared to the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. 

Keeping Abreast With Blood
 One in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. Early detection boosts the odds of successful treatment and long-term survival, but current diagnostic technologies can be problematic.

  One of the Best Things I Can Do with My Lips
I am told that the muscles of the face are capable of over 250,000 different combinations of expressions. And one of the most useful is a smile. And though I’m a fan of kissing, I appreciate that smiling is still one of the best things I can do with my lips.

Earth Day
Earth Day is a day for envisioning how we humans want to interact with our mother planet. Imagine what our world would look like if all of us 5 million people put our minds together:

Hollywood Exclusive
Juggling Career and Motherhood, 'Fairly Legal's' Sarah Shahi Finds Sleep Scarce / Dennis Wilson Biopic Ramps Up with Casting of Fellow Beach Boys

Perhaps It's Time to Buy a Cow
This just in: The retail price of beef increased in 2011 by 10 percent, with the average price per pound coming in at $4.83 for USDA Choice. And it's expected to rise by another 10 percent in 2012, with experts warning the price hike will hit by summer.

He's All Bark
Barking is as natural as breathing. Triggered by a state of excitement, barking is a dog's means of communicating anger, loneliness, fear, playfulness or a need for something.

Steps to Starting a Vegetable Garden

A Whistle-blower Who's Hard To Love
On Wednesday, Greg Smith, a high muck-a-muck at Goldman Sachs, not only quit but also did it in the way most of us plebes can only dream of: He wrote a giant scathing op-ed in The New York Times telling his bosses that they stink, Goldman clients that they are screwed, and the world that his former firm makes him ill.

So Who Are We Bombing Next?
As the dissipating shadows of the Iraq War recede into the liberal political spin bookmakers will place upon it in our history texts, our politicians are working hard this very moment by turning their stalwart and undivided attentions toward one very important problem that is now facing this great nation of ours:

Birding 101 in Southeast Arizona

Why Can't We See God?
"We cannot see God because he needs his privacy," says Patrick, 10. Patrick probably doesn't want anyone coming into his room without knocking first. Megan, 8, thinks God likes to be alone. "If everybody saw him, they would always crowd around him."

Sex at the University

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