Pretzel logic

Downward starving dog: A study by the University of Washington says that people who practice yoga are more likely to stay slim because they are more in tune with their bodies and practice “mindful eating,” watching what they eat and not eating unless they’re hungry.

More than likely it’s the long stretches they go without food as they attempt to free themselves from the knots they’ve tied their bodies into.

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Chapter 11 is the Best Medicine: Reader’s Digest, which since 1922 has published condensed articles from other magazines in its monthly journal, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

You can read all about it in next month’s Reader’s Digest in “We’re broke and can’t pay our bills.” That’s not the headline; that’s the entire article.

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Wild, wild life: Scientists say they have found one of the key ingredients for life in dust that was collected by a NASA space probe in 2006 from the comet Wild 2.

But the scientists have yet to explain how the beer got there.

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