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Medical Student Tries to Attack Family with Meat Cleaver

Medical Student Tries to Attack Family with Meat Cleaver

Ny Times on Circumcision

This New York Times article proposes that circumcision prevents AIDS.  Of course, things are not so simple.

We agree on one point:  the spread of HIV (and other STDs for that matter) in uncicrumcised men is less than those in circumcised men.

But Tina Rosenberg's article misses the important point:  one has to get a disease in order to spread it.  So while I might agree that in some contexts - circumcision is (way) better than nothing - it is neither a vaccine, nor a good argument for universal circumcision.

Illegal food?

(or perhaps it should be illegal) Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Chunk Cookie .. this think has 540 calories - providing 65% of your daily allowance of saturated fat.  All in one cooke.  Do we really wonder why so many Nort Americans have BMI over 30?