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How Green Is Bamboo-Based Clothing?

Bamboo is no longer just a delicacy for pandas or a collectible for sinophiles. The environmental movement is embracing bamboo — it’s actually a type of gigantic grass with hollow, jointed, woody stems — as a raw material source for organic clothing. A number of manufacturers and retailers — Sprout …

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Why Sex Scenes in Movies Should Be Banned

In Italy, a debate has erupted over sex scenes in mainstream films. Italian Bishops say gratuitous sex in films — the kind that usually feature a shirtless Michael Douglas — harm impressionable youth — since most lack the context of love or tenderness. Of course, we all know that it’s …

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Study: Human Growth Hormone May Not Improve Athletic Performance

Stunning new research suggests that human growth hormone – mentioned specifically in December’s Mitchell Report to the Commissioner of Major League Baseball – may not improve athletic performance after all. For more than a decade, illegal steroids and other performance-enhancing substances have been commonly used by players in the MLB, …

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