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Dvorak Uncensored » 100 Words That All High School Graduates - And Their Parents - Should Know

Dvorak Uncensored » 100 Words That All High School Graduates - And Their Parents - Should Know

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Sodas Will Kill You or Cause Parkinsons

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.

Dvorak Uncensored » CRIPES! Sodas Will Kill You or Cause Parkinsons

Where I’ve been

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The perfect burger

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bookofjoe: Hamburger Synchronicity — Two enter, one leaves (followed shortly thereafter by the other)

Nice faucets

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Veerle’s blog | Stylish faucets for the bathroom

The Kick

foot flex

Picture #2, a swimmer with 40 degrees will have a kick that is of little or no use. To place the top of the foot at an angle that is propulsive requires significant bending of the knee. When the knee bends, the thigh moves down and causes enough drag to cancel out most or all of the propulsion from the top of the foot. The kick is not worth doing. These swimmers love pull buoys! Swimmers with less than this range of motion, when kicking flutter kick on a kick board, can actually go backwards.

This is why I am so slow in the water, compounded by heavy muscular legs.

Well there is the possibility of using the rack to improve my flexibility. I think I can build one of them myself.

The Kick

Hope for Iraq

Tribal contributions to counterinsurgency - Fightin’ 6th Marines!

The locals are getting tired of Al Queda and taking things into their own hands in an organized way. (That’s the optmistic view)

Things just feel different here now. The reporters with significant embed experience under their belt who fly in from different areas of the country remark consistently that the environment in Anbar is much different than elsewhere. No one is saying words like “victory” or “peace,” but the words “significant hope” are on everyone’s lips.

Chocolate Gourmand Blog

There’s even a blog devoted to chocolate!

Chocolate Gourmand Blog

Dvorak Uncensored » Aussies Go Crazy forCat Poo Coffee

What people will do with poo ;-)

Dvorak Uncensored » Aussies Go Crazy forCat Poo Coffee

And whale poo is even more valuable.

Live Earth: useful as a green bracelet - Opinion - theage.com.au

Satirical but true!

Live Earth: useful as a green bracelet - Opinion - theage.com.au

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