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Why Butt Fat Beats Belly Fat
Baby got back! Good news not only for J. Lo and Sir Mix-a-Lot fans. According to a new study, having some junk in your trunk can be healthy. Research at the University of Oxford and Churchill Hospital shows that the assumption that leaner is always better may be literally ass backward. In the past, medical…
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It's Not What You Say, It's Where You Say It
You probably heard that a little differently when you were younger—that it’s not always what you say, it’s how you say it. And that’s often true—depending on the tone, a phrase like “you knucklehead” can sound like a scold, a frustrated endearment or a dismissal. So yes, your mother was right—how you say what you…
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Critics of Baby Einstein Evicted
When the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood called Disney out for its bogus Baby Einstein videos, it drew more than the ire of few executives. The children’s advocacy group was successful in getting full refunds for parents, but not long after, it got the boot. Talk about cold-blooded. Understandably, Disney — which acquired Baby Einstein…
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Tweets Call for Obama's Assassination
Who knew Twitter was a haven for would-be assassins? Apparently, 140 characters is all you need to hatch a plan that involves murdering the president. What happens now to the two men who took to the social networking site to post their disturbing messages remains to be seen, but the Secret Service is now launching an…
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South Park Skewers TMZ Tiger
There’s the new Tiger Woods—let’s call him TMZ Tiger—running through his Florida McMansion, popping pills and bellowing, “Put down the golf club!” and “You’re overreacting, you stupid Swedish cow!” while an enraged Elin wields a nine-iron. She is, to put it mildly, not happy. Violently not happy: “You f*%$#@! I never should have married you! …
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‘Fat’ is the new ‘N’ Word. Seriously?
Over on HuffingtonPost.com is a column by some chick named Vicki Iovine headlined FAT Is the New ‘N’ Word. She’s white, and that’s all I’m going to infer about why she played the race card. The headline – a breathtaking work of staggering ignorance – speaks for itself. And hey, it worked: It got my…
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New York Governor Paterson Drops His Bid to Get Re-elected
The dream is over for New York Governor David Paterson. The Empire State’s first black governor announcedannounce this afternoon that he will withdraw from the race for a new term after news reports that he and New York State Police officials had intervened in a domestic violence incident involving a close aide. At a news…
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Don’t Do It, NAACP!
is an intern at The Root and senior journalism major at Howard University. Yes, Idris Elba is one delicious tall draaank, and that alone is enough to redeem Obsessed, the Negro Fatal Attraction one reviewer hailed as proof that we have achieved equal right to have trashy, lowbrow movies aimed at us. Fair enough. But…
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Haiti's Development: A Human-Rights Approach
In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti last month, thousands of its countrymen are reversing a trend that has dominated life in developing third world countries for decades—they are migrating back to the countryside, after having flocked to the cities in a desperate search for employment. What drove their urban flight was…
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The USDA and The Value of Black Land
Alphonso Hooks, a fourth-generation farmer in Shorter, Alab., was ambivalent about recent news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) signed a $1.25 billion discrimination settlement with thousands of black farmers. The agreement, called Pigford II, was the second redressing of past USDA racial discrimination cases. Hooks says he got nothing in an earlier settlement.…