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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Segui Denies Bizarre Side Effects of HGH
NEW YORK — Former major leaguer David Segui admitted yesterday in an ESPN interview that he used human growth hormone and was among the players mentioned by ex-teammate Jason Grimsley to federal investigators. Segui added that he used the drug … Continue reading
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Coming Soon to a Campus Near You
Students in Chile have staged a naked protest against poor quality education. A group of 25 college students in Valparaiso stripped off in the main Sotomayor Square, Las Ultimas Noticias reports. The students painted their bodies with protest slogans and … Continue reading
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Chefs Deny Lobsters Suffer
A day after Whole Foods Market stopped the sale of live lobsters in its stores, local chefs and wholesalers brushed off worries that New England’s iconic crustacean would go the way of fur The upscale natural foods chain said that … Continue reading
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Run on Home Depot Stock After Finds
SOUTHWICK, Mass. –For the fifth time in a week, a stash of drugs was found in a cabinet purchased at a Home Depot store in Massachusetts. A plumber in Southwick discovered 40 pounds of marijuana and three kilograms of cocaine … Continue reading
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A Face with No Name
People with face-blindness, known as prosopagnosia, have trouble identifying which of the three faces on the bottom row is the same as the person shown in the three photos on the top row New findings from researchers at Harvard and … Continue reading
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English as an Insulting Language
They say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the Dowbrigade out of business, one way or another, sooner or later. … Continue reading
Can’t Stand the Sight of You
width=”228″ height=”169″ align=”left”>They say the fastest ways to learn a foreign language are to fall in love or get sent to jail. Groundbreaking media like this are bound to put the Dowbrigade out of business, one way or another, sooner … Continue reading
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The Government We Deserve
Here in Boston, the majority of the local political attention is going to the burgeoning Governors race to replace "Catchers" Mitt Romney, who has come as close to declaring his candidacy for President in ’08 as one can without being … Continue reading
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Oye, Pedro, We Have You Surrounded
EL PASO, June 8 (AP) – Gov. Rick Perry has announced a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras along the Mexican border and to put the live video on the Internet, so that anyone with a computer … Continue reading
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Get a Life or Get Ahead
Although the Dowbrigade has sworn a blood oath not to blog about the institution for which we work, or any of the people we work with, or any of the students we teach, have taught in the past or may … Continue reading
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