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POPSCop Pulls Gun During Snowball Fight ... Could it Have Been 'Roid Rage'? From Boston to Arizona, police departments are investigating a growing number of incidents involving uniformed police officers using steroids. So-called "juicing" has been anecdotally associated with several brutality cases, including the 1997 sodomizing of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in New York City. Anabolic steroids are synthesized male sex hormones that promote muscle mass. When prescribed legally, medical steroids are used to treat growth problems in children, anemia and chronic infections like HIV. A common side effect of steroid use is violent, aggressive behavior that can contribute to poor judgment and even police brutality, according to medical experts. Gene Sanders, a Spokane, Wash., police psychologist, estimates that up to 25 percent of all police officers in urban settings with gangs and high crime use steroids — many of them defensively.
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POPSHelath Benefits of Beet Juice Juicing beets is a great way to get your vitamins and nutrients. They also strengthen the liver and reduce blood pressure. Great information!
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POPSPART TWO: What's RIGHT with AMERICA
I is for Internet - The last medium of freedom. Without it, we'd all still be plugged into the Matrix. J is for Juicing - Because drinking raw, living vegetable juices is perhaps the single best thing you can do for your own health. K is for Kayaking- And all the other stuff you can do in the great outdoors across America's amazing national and state parks. L is for Liberty - While we still have some left, it might be a good idea to protect it. M is for Meditation and Massage therapy - Both are really healthy, relaxing activities available all across America. N is for Nutritional supplements - Even though the FDA has tried to destroy the industry, you can still find an amazing assortment of nutritional supplements across the USA. O is for Organics - Thank God we have chemical-free foods and personal care products available -- and an organization working to protect them (www.OrganicConsumers.org). P is for the People - Without whom this nation would not exist. The A
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POPSTips For Juice Extractors The pulp left over in the hopper - don’t throw it away! It can be used to add texture to smoothies and soups. Carrot pulp can be used for carrot cake, bread or muffins, without having to spend time shredding carrots. Sneak some of the nutritious pulp into meals. The kids won’t know they’re getting added fiber and vitamins - but you will!
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POPSPerspective on Derek Jeter and steroids I totally agree with this - there is no way in my mind that Derek ever did steroids. If it turned out that he did, i would be extremely shocked and saddened. I admire the way he handles himself tremendously.
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POPSBreville Cordless Hand Blender - Refurbished The Breville Cordless Hand Blender is perfect for making smoothies, shakes and cocktails and also works for chopping foods like onions or juicing fruits like oranges or grapefruit. It comes with two attachments and a mixing jug.
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POPSIs The Film 'An American Carol' Being Sabotaged At The Box Office? Obviously, this type of "error" sometimes requires collusion between employees--a way of marking the ticket so that you are sent to the correct theater, even though you've been sold the wrong ticket. Before anyone jumps to conclusions and chalks this up to politics, the fact is this is a fairly rare but not unheard of occurrence. There have been payola scandals in the past and it usually has more to do with either juicing the numbers for a big budget release or, more prosaically, lazy or incompetent ticket sellers at the theaters. Would I put it past Hollywood to collude with theater owners to depress sales of AAC? No, but in this case I think it best to use Occam's Razor - everything being equal, the simplest and least complicated answer is probably the right one. “Please email us a picture of your ticket stub to: fraud@americancarol.com
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POPS830! How a MA carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever Controversy erupts in the competitive Scrabble world as three world records are destroyed in one game by a pair of club amateurs. "If they weren't really trying to win," an intermediate-level player named Mike Eldeiry wrote on the Crossword Games-Pro message board, "then can we really consider it our record? Fun, yeah. Neat, sure. Promotable, why not? But record, ummmmmmmm, I don't know." Eldeiry told me the game reminded him of a 600-foot batting-practice home run. If experts always shot for the moon, he said, "I think they'd have cracked 850 by now. But they'd have lost a lot of games in the process." Maybe, but there definitely seems to be some sour grapes amongst the experts here. See the article for the play-by-play analysis.