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Poor health and lots of it

Editor’s Web Note: Who needs global warming or nuclear bombs? We can go extinct with Cheetos and Big Gulps. We’re definitely at a precipice. Some experts predict infertility to double in the next seven years — to one in…

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Is boy messed up from drugs or mental illness?

Editor’s Note: Like Gabe says below, some kids can drink like fish with no hangover, others are puking from three beers. By the same token, some kids can smoke pot and be high-functioning between stones, while others are affected mentally…

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Adderall and Ritalin abuse: steroids of study

Editor’s Web Note: Adderall and Ritalin have become the steroids of study and today’s column begs the question: What are we doing as a society if the academic expectations are so high that students have to resort to “study…

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Girl abuses birth control pills for Plan B effect

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