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Evidence shows that college students with several tattoos or piercings are more likely to engage in deviant behaviors than those who have just one “innocent” tattoo/piercing, according to a new article in the research magazine Miller-McCune, which also finds one tattoo has no correlation with bad behavior. ] “My college-student daughter arrived home for Christmas …
The Alice Walker school of California cooking–the immaculate, jewel-like vegetables, the artisan oils and vinegars, the painstakingly sourced meats–has at times been leveled with the criticism that it is not, in fact, cooking, but assembling. How much talent or skill does it take to make the best ingredients taste good? Should the compliments go to …
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As I was scarfing down empanadas today at El Gaucho #2 in Anaheim, my eyes were drawn to cases and cases of wine below the all-fútbol-all-the-tiempo big-screen TVs. Cases of wine are not exactly out of place in an Argentine market with a fantastic sandwich counter, but somehow this stuck out: the boxes read, “Arcoiris …
According to the Suburban Chicago News, a woman arrives at her home one afternoon to discover a burglar playing her Nintendo DS. The 22-year old Chicago resident reported to the police that she was only away from her house for about a half hour before she witnessed the crime. When she returned and opened the …
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Taco Bell, it seems, has a new spokesperson named Christine — their own Jared Fogel, if you will — who claims that she lost 54 pounds after two years of eating fast food in controlled portions from the chain. The company has her face, and not to mention, figure, featured front and center on their …
Here are The World Almanac and Book of Facts Top Ten News Topics of 2009: 1. Obama Presidency Begins. With the U.S. at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Barack Obama swearing in as the nation's 44th president Jan. 20 in Washington, DC.heralded a major political …
Rent a WreckFor a former video-store giant, not such a blockbuster decadeIn a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is populated by maybe a handful of customers—high schoolers grabbing a game, a…
Why go out and spend $40 this year on some live tree that got cut out of its arboreal paradise only to be kicked to the curb three weeks later?Here are some Christmas trees we can REALLY get behind. Whether you've spent hours carefully arranging cases and cases of bottles…
TINCUP More Than Half-Empty?Grizzled watchdog Shirley Grindle runneth out of patience with the committee responsible for reforming the countyNs campaign-finance lawFor a few hours nearly every month this past year, you could go to the Orange County Hall of Administration in Santa Ana, take the elevator to the third floor…
–This week the National Republican Congressional Campaign committee in Washington, D.C. spoofed Democrat Loretta Sanchez's latest, famous holiday greeting card. To view, Sanchez's card go here. Sanchez says she's “delivering real results” for Orange County. But the NRCC pegs OC's lone Democrat representative as a “puppet” of Nancy Pelosi and…
You were previously informed (or warned) here about the Garden Grove Police Department's DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint Nov. 21 at 13752 Harbor Blvd. Here are the results:-601 vehicles screened-6 DUI suspects arrested -1 illegal drug suspect arrested -46 citations issued-6 vehicles Impounded for 30 days -42 unlicensed and suspended drivers sent…
Success is simple and you can have it. In this workshop, you will learn the simple principles of empowered living, and how to apply them for success and satisfaction in your education and life. Come prepared with pen and paper, having already given some thought to three key questions: “What…