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“Acrylamide In Food May Increase Risk Of Breast Cancer, New Findings Suggest.”

Acrylamide is formed from heating (but not boiling) carbohydrate-rich foods above 120°C (248°F).

Researchers have already found that high consumption is associated with nearly double the risk for endometrial and ovarian cancer, and now we can add breast cancer to the growing list.

“Ours is the first epidemiological study using biological markers for measuring acrylamide exposure, and the first to report a positive association between acrylamide and breast cancer,” says Henrik Frandsen, senior scientist at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark.

Does this mean we should avoid carbs or baked/fried/microwaved food? Both? That sounds reasonable.

Here’s a list of food items and their respective concentrations of acrylamide. DAMN it is in everything. From now on, we must eat air in order to reduce our cancer risk. Oopps, that wont work. CNN: “Most Americans face air cancer risk.”

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“Bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not an experimental or transitional stage that some women adopt ‘on their way’ to lesbianism, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.” Science Daily

WTF, people thought bisexuality in women was a transitional stage? I’ve never heard that one before. This study, of a largely white middle class population (per the authors), did not support that.

The results show a complex picture; and do not show bisexuality as a transitional stage between the sexuality duality (homosexuality-heterosexuality).

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Hawk Quits Israeli Coalition. NYT

Mr. Lieberman, who espouses a hard line toward the Palestinians, said on Wednesday that he advocated a solution based on “exchanges of territory and populations,” adding that Israel’s Arab citizens, who make up 20 percent of Israel’s population, presented more of a danger to the Jewish state than the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. One veteran Arab Israeli legislator, Ahmed Tibi, said that Mr. Lieberman “gives racists around the world a bad name.”

The “demographic threat” is a racist fear borne from the racism fundamental to zionism–establishing and maintaining a jewish majority at all costs.

Harpers

“As an editorial in the Arab News, a Saudi English-language newspaper, put it on the occasion of Bush’s visit: ‘ … no Palestinian, no Arab believes, he will, or can, deliver…. Everything he touches turns to dust and ashes. Iraq, Afghanistan, maybe now even Iran.’

There they go again, worrying only about themselves. Didn’t Bush also touch New Orleans? What about Enron? Things have gotten so tough here that even Halliburton’s CEO moved his headquarters to Dubai. The bad news for the Saudis is that Bush broke the United States–but they own it.”
-Those Ungrateful Saudis