Archive for July, 2008
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  • Jul, 08

Mama’s Going to Be a Gladiator

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 2/10/08
“It would make sense,” my husband said, “if you had ever expressed even once in the last sixteen years that you had a remote dream of becoming a Gladiator.”
I had just told him that the casting directors from the television show “American Gladiators” would be in Boulder in just two […]

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  • Jul, 08

Making Popcorn

It’s just that there is so much junk in those bags of microwave popcorn.
In addition to a whole host of things you don’t want to put in your body, the buttery taste comes from Diacetyl, which is the cause of–are you ready for this?–”Popcorn Worker’s Lung”–a potentially fatal lung disease caused the by inhalation of […]

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  • Jul, 08

Ingrid Batencourt–LIBRE!

I’ve been following Ingrid Batencourt’s hostage situation for what seems like forever–but for in her 6-year hostage ordeal was the blink of an eye. Read the full story from The New York Times here. 
A dual-citizen of France and Colombia, Batencourt took the great risk of running for presidency in Colombia in 2002, and was […]