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59The Truth about Diets
Americans are obsessed with weight. In the racks near the checkout at supermarket, virtually every every women's magazine has at least one headline article (usually accompanied by bad photos) about how Oprah and Kirsty were recently spotted looking...
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61Attack of the Tomato Killers
Tomato killers! One of the uninvited guests to my garden this years was this tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta as identified by its red horn is not to be confused with its equally voracious cousin - the...
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65How AOL Helps Protect my Tomatoes
My wife is always complaining because she says I never throw things away. Well, you never know when something might come in handy. So, I have a lot of "stuff" in piles down in the cellar. I really can't...
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63Don't Get Fooled Again - Be a Skeptic
Back in the 70's, The band called The Who released one of their best songs, "Won't get fooled again." That was back in the day when young people were warned not to trust anyone over thirty. Well, that was...
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60Remembering Woodstock 1969
Man, who could forget that moment in history, forty years ago, when we gathered, half a million strong, for those few days of Peace, Love and Music? OK, so maybe I was not there, but I heard about it on the TV news. Hey, my wife and I had jobs in...
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60Stop Searching for Happiness
We all want to be happy, right? And we think we know what makes us happy. I know what you are thinking: Happy = beer; and Unhappy = running out of beer. But, you might be surprised at some of the recent...
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55Honk for Global Warming
Yesterday I was walking on Main St in in Hyannis. My wife was engaged in serious (and serial) shopping, so I had some time to kill. I was looking for an ATM when I approached an intersection with some young...
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65The best seat in the house
Sometimes the best seat is the once with the best view A few years ago, when my hometown team (New England Patriots) made it to the AFC championship game, it was reported that some fans considered...
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64Retirement - Surviving on a Fixed Income
If you had a successful career before you retired, you might have been like me and some of my friends. We didn't bother to brown-bag. We would much rather eat-out than save a few nickles. On an average day, we might stop at the local Starbucks...
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64Surprise! Retirement is not Exactly What you Expected
My birthday came around again last month. Sixty-something. (No I didn't forget, but I don't know you well enough to tell everything - yet.) I got a nice gift from a friend. It was a paperback book titled...
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