Day: February 23, 2008
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My dog and I want a recount
Apparently, Dr. Adnan Qureshi, a stroke expert at the University of Minnesota performed a study recently that found cat owners to be less likely to die of cardiovascular disease than dog owners. The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran this story (http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/15858742.html [appearently, this page was only available for a little while — seems to be carried here…
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Reading between the lines
Like a number of people, I found the following piece (http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24a01101.htm) from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the Open Library fairly interesting — in part, because of the topics that the author chose to highlight. I tend to categorizes pieces such as this as fluff, in that one rarely gets any content of substance…