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POPSBanks Do Not Make Good Neighbors Ross Wallace, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, turned in his check for $500 and waited on the auction floor in full dress uniform for a chance to buy a Detroit house on the cheap. Wallace, 27, said he did not want to leave his fiancee and two children with a mortgage before shipping out to Iraq later this year. “I still have student loans and I’m trying to be responsible. I don’t want to leave debt,” he said. Wallace waited for the auction to roll around to Detroit’s Boston-Edison district, a once stately area that was home to boxing legend Joe Louis and Motown founder Berry Gordy. But he was quickly outbid. An unidentified investor at the front of the room who had scooped up several dozen properties took the home Wallace wanted for about $15,000. “Why am I competing against a bank?” he said later. “It would be common sense to have a separate process for people who want to move back to the city or it’s going to stay empty.”
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POPS"Fat Talk" Not Spoken Here Fat Talk Free Week encourages women to strive for a healthy ideal and take care of their bodies by focusing on health – not weight or size. The campaign encourages women to let go of the fat talk that plagues our every day conversations and promotes a celebration of things about ourselves that have nothing to do with the way we look. Breaking free from the unrealistic thin ideal of beauty has never been more urgent. Did you know that: * 1 out of 8 adolescent girls reported starving themselves to lose weight * 40% of moms tell their adolescent daughters to diet and 45% of these girls are of average weight * 81% of 10 year old girls are afraid of being fat * 51% of 9 and 10 year old girls feel better about themselves if they are on a diet * More than 2/3 of women ages 18-25 would rather be mean or stupid than be fat * Over 50% of women ages 18-25 would rather be hit by a truck than be fat * 70 million people worldwide struggle with eating disord
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POPSThe Lure of Bette Davis Eyes Two scientists from the University of Bremen have found that groups of brain cells within the temporal lobe of macaque monkeys, are not only dedicated to recognizing facial features, but each cell is responsible for specific sub-sets of facial features, like eye size.
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POPSGlobal Muslim population hits 1.57 billion "Of roughly 4.6 million Muslims in the Americas, more than half live in the United States although they only make up 0.8 percent of the population there. About 700,000 people in Canada are Muslim, or about 2 percent of the total population."
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POPSIndonesian Mom Gives Birth to 19 lb Baby Guinness World Records cites the heaviest baby as being born in the U.S. in 1879, weighing 23.75 pounds. However, it died 11 hours after birth. The book also cites 22.5-pound babies born in Italy in 1955 and in South Africa in 1982.
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POPSEast Bay Front Runners - Saturday run and brunch schedule Click through for directions on where to meet. And the critical information: Alameda - Brunch is at La Piñata , 1440 Park Street (at Santa Clara), Alameda. 510 769-9110. Oakland - Brunch is at Lynn and Lu's Escapade Cafe , 3353 Grand Ave. Oakland. 510 835-5705. Emeryville - Brunch is at Doyle Street Cafe , 5515 Doyle Street, Emeryville. 510 547-3552. Berkeley - Brunch is at Chester's Bayview Cafe (in Walnut Square), 1508 Walnut Street (at Vine), Berkeley. 510 849-9995. Lafayette/Moraga Regional Trail - Brunch to follow. Location and directions announced at the event. :-D
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POPSDo You Wanna Poken Me? Before you read too much into the title of this post, let’s get one thing straight. No, I’m not propositioning you with a double entendre. So get your mind out of the gutter! What I am here to do is to tell you about a new piece of computer technology that is poised to become the next big social media craze. If you haven’t heard of a poken yet, you soon will (@WarrenCorpus popped my Poken cherry). That’s because this thumb-size device is on the verge of taking the uber-popular social media world by storm.
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POPSIt's a Curve Convention! Successful Plus Size Models Glamour magazine is leading the way in examining the fashion industry's fascination with stick-thin models
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POPSLadies Undies and Condom Wrapper For Sale on Ebay Woman comes home early sick; husband's reactions send up red flags (bells she calls them) in her head. The evidence she finds, and the help mother nature gives is just too timely and purely priceless! The story is just priceless: http://cgi.ebay.com/EMPTY-CONDOM-PACKET-A-PHOTO-OF-THE-TARTS-KNICKERS_W0QQitemZ250280309940QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250280309940&_trkparms=72%3A1074|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&timeout=1218632137378
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POPSIs a Death Star Aimed at Earth? A massive burst of gamma rays may already be on it's way, somehow the state of the economy doesn't seem so important. So, .....live life like there's no tomorrow.......there may not be.
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