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Should You Give Up Yoga? Experts Respond to the New York Times' "Yoga-Can-Wreck-You" Controversy
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7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
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L.A.'s Dirty Coal Addiction Is Killing Arizona
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The GOP’s 10 Most Extreme Attacks on Women
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The 10 Most Dangerous Meds Driving America's Pill Crisis
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The Side of the Black Panthers That's Been Virtually Ignored: Their Fight for Healthcare Justice
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The Wrong Kind of Fat Tax: Forget Taxing Soda to Curb Obesity, Tax Producers of Sugar and Sweetners
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Why Is the FDA Saying It's OK to Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens?
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3 Dumb Decisions the Obama Administration Made That Didn't Help the Country or the President
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Embrace Your Self-Destructive Impulses? How People Can Connect with Dark Parts of Their Psyche for Personal Change
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The Health of Children and Consumers Is Threatened by Conservative Push for Corporate Speech Rights
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Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Small Farmers Fight Back With Local Food Sovereignty Ordinances
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Bugs and Krill, the Other White Meats: Time to Start Eating at the Bottom of the Food Chain
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Occupy Your Food Supply: Radical Farmer's March Aims to Bridge Urban-Rural Divide, Focus in on "Food Justice"
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Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012
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How the Occupy Movement Helped Americans Move Beyond Denial and Depression to Action
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Forced Pregnancy? Right-Wing Women's Group Thinks Women Raped in the Military Shouldn't Get Abortions
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