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Green with greed
Ripened corn The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Whether or not that’s true, it sure seems to have affected the...
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Jun 28, 20142 min read
Hark up!
Okay, listen up! Which is it: hark back, harken back, or hearken back? Hark, harken and hearken all mean the same thing: to listen. And...
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Jun 24, 20145 min read
Time for a change
Ancel Keys on a Time cover in 1950; a 1984 Time issue; the current Time issue Well folks, it’s finally happened. Time magazine, the...
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Jun 19, 20142 min read
The death of “died”
Do people die anymore? I mean, I know our life expectancy is on the rise, but surely the human species has not achieved immortality....
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Jun 16, 20143 min read
El tranquillity
Tranquil — naturally About two years ago, I began seeing a holistically oriented doctor. His practice was based on prevention and...
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Jun 14, 20143 min read
Women and cholesterol
Critical cholesterol study: no reporting Did you know about the large study in 2011 that showed women with high cholesterol had fewer...
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Jun 11, 20143 min read
Wheat goes awry
Wheat up!? Eat wheat. That’s the mantra of the medical establishment and conventional nutritionists. Wheat Leading alternative physicians...
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Jun 9, 20143 min read
Compounding the Problem
The compound sentence … Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without a certain grammatical error appearing in the local newspaper. What is it?...
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Jun 7, 20143 min read
as well as …
“As well as” can be expected Weighty issue How often do you see a sentence with a series of items separated by commas, and “as well as”...
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Jun 7, 20143 min read
In Defense of Less Defense
Cutting defense President Barack Obama The Obama administration wants to cut the defense budget, eliciting howls of protest from...
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Jun 4, 20144 min read
Ossified
How much does Dr. Oz know? A lot of so-called experts achieve their reputations only partly because of their skills and knowledge. They...
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Jun 2, 20142 min read
as well as …
“As well as” can be expected Weighty issue How often do you see a sentence with a series of items separated by commas, and “as well as”...
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May 31, 20143 min read
Global Warming
Forest fire out West caused by global warming Which is a worse way to die, by water or fire? The way things are going, future generations...
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May 28, 20141 min read
The Uncommon Comma
No Commoners Here My all-time favorite cartoon appeared in The New Yorker a few decades ago. A woman in a long formal gown and...
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May 25, 20141 min read
Graft, Money, Opportunism = GMOs
GMOs are safe? Researcher shows GMOs dangerous GM forces discredited the study. But after he presented his results to the European...
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May 10, 20144 min read
Health-Care Labyrinth
You’ve had a sore back for a long time and want ozone injections developed by Nevada physician Frank Shallenberger, disseminator of the...
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May 7, 20142 min read
Bewitched, Bothered by Between
“And Shutterfly expects full-year revenue to be between $903 million to $920 million.” That sentence was in an investment newsletter...
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May 7, 20143 min read
Saturated Fat is Good for You
There it was, in the March 30 edition of the Palm Beach Post, part of the syndicated People’s Pharmacy column by Terry & Joe Graedon:...
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