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Marijuana for Pain Control
0000-00-00 00:00:00 As early as 2727 B.C., marijuana has been known to have medicinal properties. The Chinese used it to treat rheumatic pain, constipation, and menstrual cramps. Until 1942, marijuana was available in the U.S. by prescription. The fact is that marijuana relieves pain. The evidence is that, a study published in Neurology last year, found that ... More About: Pain , Control , Marijuana
Follow-up: New Jersey Prosecutors Ready to Put the Squeeze on JuicyCampus.c
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last week, I wrote about JuicyCampus.com and posed the question of whether or not it was social networking for the college set or a venue for cyber-hate. As I was checking the news headlines this afternoon, I see where New Jersey prosecutors have subpeoned records from the site. Apparently, JuicyCampus ... More About: Squeeze , Ready
Heather Mills - Use Some of That Newfound Fortune to Buy Some Class
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Unless you live in a tree in the middle of the Amazon, you have no doubt heard about the nasty divorce battle between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills . I have grown very weary of Heather and her woe-is-me antics and on-air rants about how horribly she has been treated by McCartney, ... More About: Fortune , Class
Women Business Owners Divulge Their Secrets
0000-00-00 00:00:00 On Tuesday night, I had the honor of attending The National Association of Women Business Owners Signature Awards in New York. While we usually think that it's the big banks that are the backbone of New York City's economy, it's actually the city's 330,00 women business owners, who generate nearly ... More About: Secrets
Is It Time to Evaluate Your Doctor’s Job Performance?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 When a doctor treats me, he or she is not doing me a favor; they are doing their job. It’s a transactional relationship: money and plenty of it is being exchanged for services rendered. They are, and no insult is intended, high priced hired help. More About: Performance , Time
Get on the Insurance Merry-Go-Round and You May Not Be Able to Get Off
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I am in an insurance loop from hell – and I know for a fact that I’m not the only one with a pony in this race to nowhere. This is not a new story, but even things you know are true aren’t necessarily real until you experience them. Last December ... More About: Insurance , Round , Merry
Mr. Swayze’s Dance with Pancreatic Cancer
0000-00-00 00:00:00 There are notable times, such as hearing the recent news of Patrick Swayze, when many of us stop our busy lives to remember who and what this person has brought to our world. Most of us know Mr. Swayze as the actor who brought smiles to millions while watching his sexiness in "Dirty Dancing" way back in 1987. The ... More About: Cancer , Dance , Pancreatic Cancer
Latest Batch of Links
0000-00-00 00:00:00 12 Practical Steps for Learning to Go With the Flow - Zen Habits. The Art of Flirting - what guys read to get through to you - Just A Guy Thing. Where Does the Time Go? - iVillage Oprah's Latest Book Pick Her Hottest Yet - Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" American Idol: Girls' ... More About: Links , Batch
Proposing to a man, How to fake being a feminist, and Extreme Brides
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Happy leap year everyone! So today is the only day of the year that women are "permitted" to propose to a man, according to ancient folklore. So on that note, the Times UK has a good piece today called What happen when the woman proposes. According to the article, this is a ... More About: Brides , Extreme , Fake , Feminist
Lindsay Lohan Channels Nude Marilyn Monroe
0000-00-00 00:00:00 "The Last Sitting" is known as Marilyn Monroe 's most famous photoshoot. Bert Stern photographed her in 1962 at the Hotel Bel-Air, and six weeks later she was found dead. So who better to recreate this shoot, down to the last detail, than rehab-romping tabloid princess Lindsay Lohan ? ... More About: Channels
Skinny Belts and Platform Shoes
0000-00-00 00:00:00 It’s still too cold to go completely spring, but the big cozy sweater has lost its charm after all these months, time to freshen it up a bit. The next month is about transitioning between the seasons. Lighter layers, pulled together with a skinny belt (worn at the ... More About: Shoes , Skinny , Belts , Platform
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding…Put Away Those Pads
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Ok ladies...here's one for those 10 million U.S. women who have to deal with the unforgivable, unfortunate, and uncontrollable 'curse'.... heavy, prolonged, painful periods (menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea). Being on the 'rag', 24 - 7, would drive any sane person to do whatever it takes to stop the madness - even if it means removing ... More About: Heavy
First Look at Madonna’s New Album
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Rolling Stone offers an exclusive sneak peek into Madonna 's still-untitled upcoming album, which is due out April 29th. The article offers a track-by-track preview, including this: "The record’s first single is “4 Minutes to Save the World,” the track Timbaland partially debuted during a Philadelphia Christmas concert in December. “4 ... More About: Album
Joey Green’s Incredible Country Store Potions, Notions, and Elixirs of th
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Joey Green’s Incredible Country Store : Potions, Notions, and Elixirs of the Past and How to Make Them Today By Joey Green (Rodale, 356 pages) I was trawling the local Barnes & Noble seeking out the latest personal finance tome when the look of this book attracted me from across the store. ... More About: Joey
Future Real Estate Collapse! Blame the Baby Boomers!
0000-00-00 00:00:00 First many of us were going to commit suicide because there wasn’t going to be enough opportunity to advance in our careers, and now another set of experts is predicting the Boomer generation is going to cause the end of the real estate market as we know it. Yep, by aging ... More About: Baby , Collapse , Estate , Real Estate , Future
TGIF FUN FACTS
0000-00-00 00:00:00 In case you haven't noticed, there has been a surge of health providers that have changed their traditional medical practice to include "functional medicine". In 1993, this term was used to describe the medicine of the future which would combine complementary and alternative (CAM) treatment. Functional medicine practitioners will not only evaluate the physical health of ... More About: Facts
Why Lipstick Jungle gives good career advice
0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you are a woman reading the news this week, it hasn't been easy on the eyes. On Sunday, there was the Washington Post piece by Charlotte Allen about how women are not that smart. Penelope Trunk, the author of Brazen Career ist and a generally on-target career sage, ... More About: Advice , Lipstick , Jungle , Lipstick Jungle
Update on Oprah’s Stripper Mom - Oprah threatens woman’s credib
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last week I wrote a post about Marian, a mother of three featured on Oprah who began stripping at a gentlemen's club in Atlanta in order to support her children and maximize the time she was able to spend with them. You see, as a stripper three nights a week, she ... More About: Update , Woman , Stripper
Obama is NOT the first woman president
0000-00-00 00:00:00 As voters in Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island go to the polls today to cast votes that could determine the Democratic nominee, I wouldn't want them to be confused that casting a vote for Senator Barack Obama is akin to casting a vote for the first woman president. ... More About: President , Woman
Health Highlights
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Here are some recent articles/studies that may peak your interest. My pick is the "Identifying Biomarkers..." This would be a major breakthrough so please take time to check it out! -Teen Aggression Related to Brain Size : a team of Australian scientists has found that when key regions of the brain known for controlling emotions are ... More About: Health , Highlights
Best Place to Meet a Guy? The Apple Store
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Cosmopolitan lists an Apple store as one of the best places to meet a guy. "Most guys are natural gadget lovers, and with sales of iPods and MacBooks skyrocketing, more men than ever are stopping by Apple boutiques. The vibe at the stores is conducive to man meeting too: ... More About: Store , Meet , Apple Store , Place
Vision and Our Aging Eyes
0000-00-00 00:00:00 While I was on vacation a few weeks ago, I noticed I would make compliments about a friend's hair, how beautiful the scenery was, how relaxed and glowing my complexion looked after a massage....and I would always add....but don't forget, I don't have my glasses on. Then a few days ago, my son asked me ... More About: Eyes , Aging , Vision
Amateur Hour on the Red Carpet? The New Breed of Paparazzi
0000-00-00 00:00:00 A recent Wall Street Journal blog post calls into the question the burgeoning cottage industry of amateur paparazzi snapping pics of celebs and selling them to the same outlets the professionals use. Considering I live in Los Angeles, whose already dreadful traffic grinds to a standstill every time an errant ... More About: Paparazzi , Red Carpet , Carpet , Amateur , Hour
Oprah’s Truthiness Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I’ve been thinking a lot about my fellow blogger Kerry Gladden’s look into Oprah ’s selective “truthiness” (to borrow one of Steven Colbert’s terms) and the rush to fit the facts to the most attractive reality. It’s especially galling that Oprah, the holier-than-thou mistress of popular culture, cuts and pastes to boost ... More About: Iceberg
Here Comes the Sun: link between Vitamin D, Cancer, and Heart Disease
0000-00-00 00:00:00 In the past few months, there has been a noticable increase in more articles and media announcing the newfound benefits of vitamin D. For instance, researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found that people with high blood levels of vitamin D had half the risk of breast and colon cancer compared to those with low levels ... More About: Cancer , Link , Heart , Disease , Vitamin
Memory Lane
0000-00-00 00:00:00 The first day of 2008 is a good time to look back and attempt to recall the trials and tribulations of the past year...at least that's what I tell myself...live and learn. Of course, that will also depend on my ability to recall the many events that actually took place. This is ... More About: Memory , Lane
Careersolutions - My Top 10 Best of 2007
0000-00-00 00:00:00 New Year’s Resolutions are so ubiquitous – everyone makes them. So let’s be radical and make careersolutions – resolutions that are career-specific. I’ve come up with my top 10 that riff out of some of the most fascinating studies, articles, books, podcasts, and blogs of 2007. 1. Get to work in ...
Make Room for the New Year
0000-00-00 00:00:00 By the end of December, my house runneth over. Presents and things I bought for myself while I was suppose to be buying for others, sit in a pile. My kids new lego sets cover the floor like a multi colored lawn… there’s STUFF everywhere! Shoppers remorse ... More About: New Year , Make , Room , Year
Julia Roberts Bores Me
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Why is Julia Robe rts nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in Charlie Wilson's War? I'll admit I was never a huge fan, save a few movies - Sleeping With the Enemy, Erin Brokovich, even Stepmom. And that's pushing it.
Best Careers for 2008
More articles from this author:0000-00-00 00:00:00 US News' "Best Careers for a Changing Job Landscape" lists a variety including hairstylist/cosmetologist, firefighter, biomedical equipment technician, locksmith, genetic counselor, ghostwriter, investment banker, mediator, and curriculum specialist. Status means more than ever, yet studies show many power jobs such as lawyer or chef can be the least rewarding. Also take ... More About: 2008 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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