Why Does Buffalo Pay for Its Teachers to Have Plastic Surgery?

How a broken collective bargaining system has kept a ridiculous, multimillion-dollar perk alive.  Shutterstock /  Sheff  In Buffalo, New York, the heart of the American rust-belt, the public school system ...

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In reply to The Real Tent Embassy Story : jeez aussiegreg - just let ME have the last word I AM a woman you know…we like having the last word (and being right ALL the time!!)!! Like I said I think you could write a really interesting and thought provoking book, either factual autobiographical, a fiction based on fact. Or even write it as a novel but in the format of a biography… I am not ...

Soda Tax Would Save Lives, Generate Billions, Crush Liberty

According to a recent study published in Health Affairs, a penny-per-ounce tax on soda and sugary beverages would cut consumption by 15% in adults ages 25-64. The researchers from UC San Francisco also found that from 2010 through 2020, the tax would prevent 2.4 million cases of diabetes, 95,000 coronary heart events, 8,000 strokes and 26,000 premature deaths, while saving $17 billion in health ...

Chanelle Hayes: “Plastic surgery had a positive effect on my life”

While most celebs do everything they can to keep their surgical enhancements a secret (Katie Price excluded), but Reality TV star Chanelle Hayes has opened up about going under the knife - even going so far as to admit that...

Research Briefs: Jan. 19

By: Paulina Firozi and Tom Meyer by Paulina Firozi and Tom Meyer ... ;