You ate what you wanted to eat and smoked where you wanted to smoke.

There were no seat belt laws because there were no seat belts.

Lardy chili and greasy bacon and eggs in diners late at night.

Women in the kitchen and blacks in the back of the bus.

Hydrogen bomb and Cheeze Whiz developed, McCarthyism, the Korean war.

Orville Faubus, Strom Thurmond, Jimmy Hoffa, Vincent Gigante, Frank Costello

Rebels without causes. Leather jackets, engineer boots, and skin-tight Levi's.

Blue suede loafers....

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How to Spot a "Quacky" Web Site
Stephen Barrett, M.D.

The best way to avoid being quacked is to reject quackery's promoters. Each item listed below signifies that a Web site is not a trustworthy information source.

General Characteristics
* Any site used to market herbs or dietary supplements. Although some are useful, I do not believe it is possible to sell them profitably without deception, which typically includes:

(a) lack of full disclosure of relevant facts,
(b) promotion or sale of products that lack a rational use, and/or

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Binti Jua , a gorilla in the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, put her maternal feelings of protection into action when
a three year old boy fell into the gorilla exhibit.

Binti rushed over to the child and cradled and comforted him, keeping him safe from less-friendly gorillas.

The boy spent a few days in hospital and then was released.

Binti's Aunt, Koko, lives at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, California. She is famous for her extensive knowledge of American Sign Language, which she uses to communicate with humans and her Gorilla-friend,...

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Each time a women looks at herself in the mirror and says "I'm fat and disgusting," she is really saying
"There is something wrong with me."

When we do not know how to deal with feelings we turn to our bodies and blame our bodies for our feelings.

Every time you say "I'm fat" you are betraying your body, and you are betraying and ignoring your underlying feelings. Remember that "fat" is never a feeling, it's avoidance of feelings.

* Walk with your head high with pride and confidence in yourself as a person,

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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- An American orchestra performed a historic concert Tuesday in the communist state of North Korea -- one of the most secretive societies in the world.

A group of 105 musicians made the journey to Pyongyang, but for one of them this trip was not just about music. It was about family history.

Michelle Kim, 35, is a violinist with the New York Philharmonic, which performed a nearly two-hour concert in Pyongyang.
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Tuesday's concert ended with the Korean folk song "Arirang," which is a love song about reunion....

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