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Despite being sent home on The Bachelor season finale, 27-year-old business development manager Lindzi Cox feels no animosity towards California winemaker Ben Flajnik, 29.
"At the end of the day, yeah maybe it was tough for a little bit, but he made a decision, it was what's best for him, and I respect that," Cox said on Good Morning America Tuesday. "I wish him nothing but the best."Read the rest of the article here
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Cocoa: A Surprising Superfood
By Lisa Collier Cool
Mar 13, 2012
Mar 13, 2012
Amazing but true: Eating chocolate could actually save your life, by dramatically reducing risk for heart attacks and stroke, new research shows. Dark chocolate and cocoa powder actually contain more disease-fighting antioxidants than do blueberries, cranberries, acai, and other “superfruits,” according to a peer-reviewed studypublished in Chemistry Central Journal.
People who eat the most chocolate are 37 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD)—the leading killer of Americans—and 29 percent less likely to suffer a stroke, compared to those who eat the least, according to an analysis of seven earlier studies involving 114,009 participants. One of the most surprising findings was that indulging in the sweet treat also trims diabetes risk by 31 percent, an international team of researchers reported in British Medical Journal.
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People who eat the most chocolate are 37 percent less likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD)—the leading killer of Americans—and 29 percent less likely to suffer a stroke, compared to those who eat the least, according to an analysis of seven earlier studies involving 114,009 participants. One of the most surprising findings was that indulging in the sweet treat also trims diabetes risk by 31 percent, an international team of researchers reported in British Medical Journal.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Top 10 Guinness World Records 2011-2012
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Top 10 Guinness World Records 2011 – 2012
Posted by Sidrah Zaheeron October 8, 2011
We all like to know what are the fastest, largest, most expensive and deepest things in the world. We want to know the different records set around these distinctions. For many years, people from all around the world have been achieving distinction in making world records. They set the world record so differently, that it becomes difficult to be broken easily by anyone. Yet many world records have been broken. Every year many new records are made and broken. Here are some of the best Guinness World records of 2012, 2011 and the last decade.
1) Smallest Cow in the World

Usually cows are not known to be huge animals. Even a calf when born is of quite a size and bigger than most full-grown animals. But the 11-year-old Swallow from Yorkshire has set for itself the world record of being the smallest cow. It measures only 33 inches, or just over two feet. Here in this picture, the tiny cow poses alongside Freddie the Bull for launching the Guinness World Records of 2011.
2) Largest Hotel in the World
3) Largest Ice Village

There is an ice village built in JukkasjÀrvi, Sweden, which is the world’s biggest of its kind. There is also an Ice Hotel nearby. The igloo village has been constructed solely of ice. In December 2002, around 700 employees of the Tetra Pak International stayed in at the Ice Hotel in its 140 igloos.
4) Most Expensive Olympic Logo

This year’s Olympic were a thrill to watch. The Olympic logo which was created this year has been its most expensive one to date. It had cost £400,000 ($645,645). This much amount of money after recession and the current UK’s economic situation has also gathered a lot of negative criticism. It was designed by brand consultants Wolff Olins.
5) Most Expensive Pizza

The best pizzas are said to be made in Naples and they cost less than €10. But there is a pizza, which is more expensive and customers paying for it seems to confirm its taste. The onion puree, fontina and mozzarella cheese, pancetta, ceps and wile mizuna lettuce pizza is topped with shavings of a rare white truffle from Italy, which costs US$2,000 per kilo. In fact, a flight to Naples will not be that expensive. It is sold in Gordon Ramsey’s Maze Restaurant in London.
6) Longest Career as an Ice-Cream Man
7) Heaviest Aircraft Pulled by a Man
8) Deepest Cycling Underwater

Cycling is such a good exercise. But it becomes more fun and interesting when you can do it like Vittorio Innocente did underwater. He reached a depth of 66.5 meters on his two-wheeled steed and broke the record of underwater cycling on July 21, 2008 in Santa Margherita Ligure, Liguria, Italy.
9) Largest Collection of ‘Do Not Disturb’ Signs
10) Fastest Time to Pop 100 Balloons by a Dog

We all like to see our pets do different funny and interesting moves. We pride in our pets and make them show any tricks to our guests if they happen to make any movement that make us laugh. Now there is a Guinness World Record set by a Jack Russell, a dog called Anastasia to pop 100 balloons in just 44.49 seconds.
Top 10 most over reported stories
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First most overreported story of 2011... Click on the link above to see the rest
1. The Casey Anthony Case
By Nate Rawlings Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2011

Casey Anthony reacts to being found not guilty on murder charges as she stands next to her attorney Jose Baez at the Orange County Courthouse on July 5, 2011 in Orlando, Florida.
Red Huber / Reuters
Nothing takes one's mind off the sticky summer doldrums like a sensational murder trial. During the hot months of June and early July, the nation was captivated by the case of Florida's comely single mom Casey Anthony, 22, who stood accused of smothering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee and dumping her body in the woods in late 2008. In the end, there was reasonable doubt — prosecutors couldn't prove how Caylee died — but the details set tabloid tongues a-wagging. Anthony's hard-partying lifestyle and the fantastic claims made in her defense, from the initial placing of blame on a fictional nanny to the startling accusation that her father had molested her as a child, kept the media's appetite whetted for months. While Anthony has mostly disappeared from tabloids for now, and the true details of her daughter's sad, senseless death will likely never be known, her days in court became what TIME's John Cloud called "the first great trial of the social-media age" — one obsessively covered on blogs and Twitter feeds and dissected daily by thousands of followers.
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