"We have exercise in a pill," said Ron Evans, an author of the study at the Salk Institute. After just a month of taking the drug and exercising, mice could run 68% longer and 70% farther than mice that exercised without it.AICAR may prove useful in treating obesity and diabetes, which is of particular interest to me because my imaginary daughter Amy suffers from juvenile diabetes.
That's Amy with her bratty cousin Josh (on Carolyn's side, of course).
Cosmetic surgeons down there, Down Under, said the majority of women who have labia and taco surgery were "very happy" with results. It's curtains for this story.
Singer Fergie debuted her new shoe line in Las Vegas yesterday.
Actor Ernest Borgnine was married to singer Ethel Merman for 32 days in 1964.
Showing some of that much ballyhooed conservative compassion, he urged people to stay out of the sun and to wear sunscreen, particularly during the summer. "If you ever have any slight discoloration please go to your dermatologist or your doctor and get it checked out as soon as possible," he said.
Now if he'd just get the hell out of the limelight.
Here's the summer look for Iraq's hottest bitches! Associated Press is reporting that three female suicide bomberettes blew themselves up at a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad, and at a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq this morning, killing at least 57 and wounding nearly 300. And you thought your Monday was sucky.
The bombings were the deadliest this year. More women are being recruited for the detonations because their outfits readily hide the bombs. Most of the dead were women and children.
Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, says it takes too long for science to figure things out, and he believes people should take precautions now -- especially children -- whose brains are still developing. My imaginary daughter Amy is going to be very upset when I take away the pink Hello Kitty phone her mother bought her. Sorry, Carolyn.
Adults have been cautioned to keep phones away from the head and use the speakerphone or a wireless headset, because of electromagnetic radiation. There are no long-term studies to confirm the warning, but the Pittsburgh doc cited "growing body of literature linking long-term cell phone use to possible adverse health effects including cancer."
The type of brain tumor Ted Kennedy's battling has been theoretically linked to excessive cell use.
We will make our meek adjustments,
Contented with such random consolations
As the wind deposits
In slithered and too ample pockets.
For we can still love the world, who find
A famished kitten on the step, and know
Recesses for it from the fury of the street,
Or warm torn elbow coverts.
We will sidestep, and to the final smirk
Dally the doom of that inevitable thumb
That slowly chafes its puckered index toward us,
Facing the dull squint with what innocence
And what surprise!
And yet these fine collapses are not lies
More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
What blame to us if the heart live on.
The game enforces smirks; but we have seen
The moon in lonely alleys make
A grail of laughter of an empty ash can,
And through all sound of gaiety and quest
Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.
Barack Obama is on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan and Iraq (providing those necessary presidential photo ops). When questioned about this on "Good Morning America," McCainus said Obie would now "have the opportunity to see the success of the surge." If that pearl of douchedom wasn't enough, McCain added, "This is the same strategy that he voted against, railed against. He was wrong about the surge. It is succeeding and we are winning."
Nearly 150,000 troops remain in Iraq, more than in early 2007.
On the same day, ABC and the Post released additional poll results saying "Obama continues to hold most of the advantages in the presidential race." 
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That's the summer look for Long Island termagants, as embodied by stage mom cum reality star, Dina Lohan. With her Barbie Grow Pretty Hair tresses, Crayola lipliner usually reserved for only the most discriminating East L.A. gang girls, Zoomed Chiclet caps, eye makeup from the Angie Dickinson "Police Woman" series, tan by Sherwin-Williams -- this is the seasonal hotness (click pic to enlarge).
There have been numerous tragedies associated with the Man of Steel, including the deaths of Supermen George Reeves, who was found dead on June 16, 1959 of a gunshot wound -- just days before his wedding... and Christopher Reeve, who was thrown from a horse in 1995 and paralyzed from the neck down, dying at age 52 in 2004 of complications attributed to his condition. His widow, Dana, died of lung cancer at age 45 in 2006. She was not a smoker. 
Tab wrote a 2005 tell-all about his life in Hollywood, "Tab Hunter Confidential." He now lives in Montecito with his partner of over 25 years.
Tab was popular. 
On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever.
Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
Since we started back in 2000, we've carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.
It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy - but now that we've created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe.
We hope you enjoy the journey.
Tim Westergren
Founder
The Music Genome Project
This was the worst first half of the year for the Dow since 1970, when the economy fell into recession. The more diverse S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite indexes had their worst first half since 2002, when Wall Street was still suffering from the dot-com bust, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a recession.
For the first half of the year, the Dow is down 14.44 percent; the S&P lost 12.83 percent; and the Nasdaq has fallen 13.55 percent.
