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January 11, 2008
| Working it off |
By Bill Highlander
Editor
By Bill Highlander
Editor
A good thing about the holidays is all the wonderful food and drink. A bad thing is the number of calories in that food and drink. It is not unusual for a person to pack on a few pounds from Thanksgiving to the New Year.
Likewise, it is not unusual for many people to resolve to get rid of the extra pounds plus any other undesirable fat in the belly, butt or love handles. So they flock to gyms and health clubs to find a magical exercise that will melt away the excess.
The only problem is that it usually doesn’t work. You have to be committed to both good nutrition and Read more...
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| Pit bulls: friend or fiend?
By Bill Highlander
Editor
On Dec. 30, 70 pounds of snarling terror lunged at Elizabeth Cinco as she entered her sister’s home on Quimby Road.
Tazz, a boxer-pit bull mix, bit her leg. The 48-year old grandmother was holding her 20-month old toddler and tossed the baby on a couch, hoping to distract the dog away from the child while she tried to fight the dog. But the dog went after the baby, ripping her face and exposing the jawbone. The grandmother was severely wounded as well an attacked also by a second dog.
Finally, a relative controlled the dogs. Cinco tried to drive the baby and herself to a hospital, but her Read
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