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The Salt
12:38 pm
Fri June 22, 2012

Artist Protests Death Penalty By Painting Prisoners' Final Meals

Originally published on Fri June 22, 2012 2:22 pm

Chefs (and the rest of us) often fantasize about what to pick for our last meal on Earth. But the answers we come up with are often extravagant and largely theoretical.

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Movie Reviews
12:29 pm
Fri June 22, 2012

Pixar's Fast And 'Brave' Female Comedy: 'Delightful'

First, I hate the title, and not because it's an adjective. Notorious, Ravenous, Rabid: great titles. Brave? Generic. And with the poster of a girl with flame-red curls pulling back a bow, it looks like yet another female-warrior saga, another you-go-girl action picture suggesting the biggest injustice to women over the last millennium has been the suppression of their essential warlike natures.

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The Two-Way
11:52 am
Fri June 22, 2012

The Bullied Bus Monitor Gets An Apology, Half A Million In Donations

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From the video of Karen Klein being bullied.

Originally published on Fri June 22, 2012 11:59 am

Two of the middle school kids who brutally bullied a school bus monitor in Greece, New York are apologizing to Karen Klein.

MSNBC says they've sent notes to police who have forwarded them to Klein.

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Deceptive Cadence
10:58 am
Fri June 22, 2012

America's Got Palate

Credit Pablo Helguera

Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 3:42 pm

Got an idea for a classical cartoon, or a reaction to this one? Leave your thoughts in the comments section.

Pablo Helguera is a New York-based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. You can see more of his work at Artworld Salon and on his own site.

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Shots - Health Blog
10:54 am
Fri June 22, 2012

When Patients With Fibromyalgia Try Marijuana

Credit Jae C. Hong / AP
Brian Lawson rolls a marijuana cigarette at the BC Marijuana Party Headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver is in the marijuana-friendly corner of Canada.

Advocates for cannabis decriminalization have long touted marijuana's potential medical benefits, but some new research suggests that the grass, as it were, may not always be greener.

Plenty of people aren't waiting for marijuana to become legal to start trying it as a medicine, though. About 1 in 10 patients referred to a McGill University pain clinic in Montreal for fibromyalgia over a six-year period were using marijuana to deal with the chronically painful condition, a new study found.

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