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Vegan lovers

March 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment

In The Bremerton Sun’s Bainbridge paper was an article – edited from a longer feature – about islanders who eat vegan. What interested me the most was how romance played a part in the diet choice – reminding me of a blog dialogue Jay McCarthy and I had last month about food. Jay mentioned that […]

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Got the story

March 13th, 2004 · Comments Off on Got the story

After blogging yesterday about The Bremerton Sun’s new Bainbridge paper, I found one in my mailbox today. I looked it over and appreciated the different angles they are taking from the Bainbridge Review. Some articles seem adapted from the larger Bremerton paper but others seem specific, interviews with athletes and artists. New news I hadn’t […]

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Anatomy class sans cadavers: it would be a shame

March 13th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Enoch responded to my post yesterday No Cadavers Required and provided his perspective on these changes in medical education: There were a couple of valuable things I got from working on cadavers. The first chance to cut into human flesh, however oily and toughened by preservatives. It’s kinda like overcooked chicken, really. The first introduction […]

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Missed my mid-life crisis

March 13th, 2004 · Comments Off on Missed my mid-life crisis

From boston.com via The Redhead Wore Crimson : So why do Gen-X/Y women feel such pressure to have the perfect career, body, husband, and kids by the time they are at or around 30? Why has 30 become such a make-or-break moment? As the generation that came of age after the most visible glass ceilings […]

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Boys & books

March 13th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Although we have lots of books – but no boys – in our home, I enjoyed this article in Thursday’s Seattle Times: Teaching boys the joys of books by columnist Jerry Large: When the Public Library Association was in town recently, one of the speakers talked about the problem of boys drifting away from libraries […]

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