If you remember my post on Dr. Robert Jarvik and RX advertising (In re: Rx advertising – Liptor and Dr. Jarvik) you’ll recall that he was mostly a celeb indorser of sorts and that his medical creditenals were dubious at best. Well now in the wake of an investigation into the advertising by the House Energy [...]
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He enters the supermarket carrying a Styrofoam cooler full of dry ice (to keep the ice cream cold), a pair of gloves (to keep his fingers warm), and a flashlight (to help him see the inkless indentations on the bottom of each container that show where and when it was manufactured). Reaching the freezer section, [...]
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The Philharmonic accepted the North’s invitation to play last year with the encouragement of the U.S. government at a time of rare optimism in the long-running nuclear standoff involving the two countries. …Ahead of their arrival, North Korea was even tearing down the anti-American posters that line the streets of Pyongyang, Mehta said Sunday, citing [...]
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Tonight at Cleveland State University Clinton and Obama lace up their gloves for what might be their last debate. While I gotta be honest and say I have really tuned out of the debates until last week when I watched some of the Texas one. To be fair I’ve always thought that having lots of [...]
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If you don’t know who Kelly Pavlik is your either not a boxing fan (highly likely in our era) or your not from Ohio where Pavlik has a cultlike following especially in his native Youngstown in Northeast Ohio where he is from and has remained. His surprising rise to boxing greatness is only slightly more [...]
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I finished up Pillars of the Earth the other day and instead of starting in on another page turner (Pillars was just such a book, despite the topic of being about the building of a cathedral the book moves really fast and you get pretty taken into the back stabbing, the rivalries, and the crazy [...]
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Despite fan opposition already (domestic) and some manager opposition its looking likely that in three years time the English Premier League will be hosting 10 matches (a whole extra 39th round) overseas. Larger in scope then the NFLs who has already started the trend with a regular season match being held in London and another [...]
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Roger Clemens is testifying about his steroid use (or supposed lack of), Arlen Specter wants an investigation into why the NFL allowed the Patriots to destroy evidence of their cheating (see Arlen’s tangled Comcastic mess: It’s worse than you think), and Sen. Sherrod Brown from Ohio wants the NFL to acknowledge the Browns undefeated 1948 [...]
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Out last night walking the dog in just a light rain jacket (dripping trees from all the rain) but it must have still been 60 degrees at 9:30pm. The air was laced with the Wonder Bread factory’s baking and the sky was lit from behind in a somewhat surreal fashion – kinda in disbelief that [...]
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