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Carnival rescue bus breaks down
while bringing passengers home
CBS News, by Anne Werner
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Posted By:earlybird, 2/15/2013 9:10:52 AM
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| Thousands of passengers erupted into cheers Thursday night as the crippled triumph finally pulled up to the dock. As they stepped onto dry land, and into the arms of their loved ones some couldn´t contain their excitement. Carnival then chartered a caravan of buses to transport folks out of Mobile, Ala. To add insult to injury, at least one of those buses became stranded on the way to New Orleans, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. The nightmare started Sunday, when an engine fire knocked out power.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 2/15/2013 9:23:20 AM (No. 9177789)
Life is a Carnival.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
gerty, 2/15/2013 9:25:34 AM (No. 9177795)
And the hits just keep on comin´!
(Apologies to Mr.Cruise in A Few Good Men.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 2/15/2013 9:38:24 AM (No. 9177828)
What´s next? Send in the clowns....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Keekng, 2/15/2013 9:39:48 AM (No. 9177836)
Was there urine running down the walls of the bus or was there excrement sloshing on the floor? Shut up and eat your onion sandwich! s/
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 2/15/2013 10:21:12 AM (No. 9177923)
When you are in the project business, you find a small percentage of projects just seem cursed. The cruise qualifies, but hasn´t gone paranormal yet. That won´t happen until one of the buses is hijacked by a terrorist or struck by lightning in a freak thunderstorm.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Obxtube, 2/15/2013 10:40:04 AM (No. 9177962)
So what? This is news?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lComStaff, 2/15/2013 11:47:38 AM (No. 9178108)
Replies like So what? and Who cares? are not acceptable responses on this site. Use them and get blocked. If you don´t care why are you here?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 2/15/2013 12:18:17 PM (No. 9178164)
My heart goes out to these people after what they´ve been through. We had the bus ride from Hell going to DC for a Tea Party gathering 9/11 (I think) Out of 55 hours, we were off the bus for 6 of them. Bus got some bad diesel on the way to DC from SW FL and it never got fixed.
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Flybynight, 2/15/2013 1:12:19 PM (No. 9178275)
Did Carnival ever explain why they spurned the offer of 6000 hotel rooms only a few blocks from the terminal? I heard something abut the airport being inadequate for charter flights.
Excuse me? There are two 10,000-foot runways with precision approaches at Mobile Downtown Airport, a whole mile and a half from where the ship docked, and Mobile Regional with full commercial airline service, 20 minutes west. Carnival still lying to their unfortunate customers. Are they gullible enough to risk that bunch of incompetents again?
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Rutgers Basketball Scandal
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Associated Press, by Tom Canavan
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/5/2013 8:00:39 PM
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-- Rutgers´ coaching scandal spiraled deeper Friday, bringing down the popular athletic director and a school vice president while donors threatened to cut off their contributions to New Jersey´s largest public university. The day of mounting troubles for the school began with Athletic Director Tim Pernetti resigning over his failure to immediately fire coach Mike Rice, who was caught on video hitting, kicking and taunting players with anti-gay slurs at practice.
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Newtown massacre: Gun
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Journal News [Westchester County, NY], by Lee Higgins
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/5/2013 7:51:28 PM
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The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has permanently revoked the federal firearms license of East Windsor, Conn., gun store owner David LaGuercia, whose shop reportedly sold guns used in the Newtown school massacre and a second Connecticut mass shooting. ATF spokeswoman Deb Seifert told The Journal News on Thursday that she could not be more specific on the reasons LaGuercia’s license was revoked. It was revoked Dec. 20 and the 60-day time frame to appeal has expired.(Snip) In December, LaGuercia said in a statement that he was “absolutely appalled”
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Riverside: RCC divided on campus
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Press-Enterprise [Riverside, CA], by DEBRA GRUSZECKI
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/5/2013 12:46:46 PM
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The anonymous black-and-white fliers that had been pinned to billboards April 1 at Riverside City College to call attention to the student body president as a registered sex offender were nowhere to be seen Thursday.(Snip)But the mood was anything but light inside the Associated Students of Riverside City College building where Doug Robert Figueroa, 40, of Riverside, has served as RCC student body president since May 2012. Students huddled there defended the integrity of their leader. “He’s been a great leader,” student Kendall McCardle said, commenting on his advocacy skills, leadership roles with all three branches
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After years of lying, ex-honors
student admits her role in murder
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Los Angeles Times, by Joel Rubin
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/5/2013 11:45:26 AM
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When Keeairra Dashiell graduated with honors from Crenshaw High School seven years ago, she seemed headed for success. Offered admission into several top colleges, she accepted a scholarship to UC San Diego, leaving behind the often rough, inner-city world of South Los Angeles. But on Thursday, Dashiell´s talent and promise were a distant, squandered memory as the 24-year-old sat handcuffed in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. After years of lying, she fully confessed to her role in a 2007 murder and, in a deal with prosecutors, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted robbery.(Snip)Judge Michael Pastor sentenced
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Police Militarization, Abuses of Power,
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Accuracy in Media, by James Simpson
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/4/2013 8:16:47 PM
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These are trying times. Never in the history of this country have we been so weakened and polarized by what many view as deliberate government policy. Now anti-gunners in the U.S. Congress, the Obama administration, and legislatures across the country are seeking to exploit the Newtown tragedy to promote their “gun control” agenda that envisions federal, universal background checks on gun purchases, and that could lead to gun registration and confiscation. At the same time, the increasing militarization of law enforcement, most visibly demonstrated by the growing use of massive, SWAT-type raids on businesses and individuals, sometimes with federal
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‘Buckwild’ star died
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Columbus Dispatch [OH], by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/3/2013 8:46:26 AM
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An autopsy on Shain Gandee, a cast member of the MTV reality show Buckwild, showed he died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the Kanawha County sheriff’s department said yesterday. The deaths of Gandee, 21, his uncle David Gandee, 48, and friend Donald Robert Myers, 27, on Monday morning were ruled accidental after coroners completed the autopsies.(Snip) The truck was found after the MTV star was reported missing by family members after a late-night session in a local bar.
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Spain princess to face
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BBC News, by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/3/2013 8:41:10 AM
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Spain´s Princess Cristina has been summoned to appear in court over allegations that her husband misused millions of euros of public money. It is reported to be the first court summons for a direct descendant of the Spanish king. She is King Juan Carlos´s youngest daughter. Her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. He is suspected of having massively overcharged local authorities for organising sporting events.
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Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns
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New York Times, by Henry Hitchings
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/2/2013 9:51:38 AM
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“Do you have a solve for this problem?” “Let’s all focus on the build.” “That’s the take-away from today’s seminar.” Or, to quote a song that was recently a No. 1 hit in Britain, “Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?” If you find these sentences annoying, you are not alone. Each contains an example of nominalization: a word we are used to encountering as a verb or adjective that has been transmuted into a noun. (Snip) Writing packed with nominalizations is commonly regarded as slovenly, obfuscatory, pretentious or merely ugly.
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Susan Patton Told the Truth
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Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
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Posted By: earlybird- 4/1/2013 1:43:26 PM
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Oops, we forgot all about Women´s History Month. To make amends to the fairer sex, today we introduce our readers to a feminist pioneer. This is Susan Patton. In 1973 she was admitted to Princeton University as part of only the fifth coeducational class in the school´s history. (Snip) On Friday this feminist pioneer found herself transformed into a feminist hate object after the Daily Princetonian student newspaper published her letter to the editor. The paper´s website has been overwhelmed by traffic, so with Patton´s permission we´re reprinting the letter in full:
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For Westmont College women,
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Los Angeles Times, by Bill Plaschke
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MONTECITO — Her final pep talk wasn´t a pep talk at all. Kirsten Moore was beyond pep. Her final pep talk, given while surrounded by her Westmont College women´s basketball team before the NAIA national championship game, was her chance to say thanks. Moore thanked her team for keeping her soul alive. She thanked them for sitting in the third row for her husband´s funeral, for playing with her infant daughter in the third row of the team bus, for sharing her pain and embellishing her joy. She thanked them for their patience when she was weeping at an unseen
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The Modern King in
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The Atlantic, by Jeffrey Goldberg
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Posted By: earlybird- 3/29/2013 1:45:13 PM
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It is still, on occasion, good to be the king. It is not necessarily good to be the king of a Middle Eastern country that is bereft of oil; nor is it necessarily so wonderful to be the king during the turmoil and uncertainty of the Arab Spring. (Snip) the king had explained to me the reason for the trip to Karak: he was trying, in advance of parliamentary elections in January, to instruct these tribal leaders on the importance of representative democracy. He wanted, he said, to see Jordanians build political parties that would not simply function
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LAPD’s New ‘Lieutenants
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Some years ago, on a warm afternoon in South-Central Los Angeles, I responded to the scene of a drive-by shooting in which a man had been killed. Such crimes were — and remain today — sadly common in that part of town, so much so that my coworkers and I were well-practiced in the routine of preserving evidence, identifying witnesses, and all the other chores uniformed officers are expected to perform (Snip)We had completed those chores and transitioned into the standing-around phase when our watch commander arrived at the scene. He was a newly minted lieutenant,
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McCain: ´I don´t understand´
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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"
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´My bangs are getting
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Christians, here´s why we´re
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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/7/2013 5:13:55 PM
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Broadcasters worry
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
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Korea Broadcast Service, by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Former British prime minister
Baroness Thatcher dies peacefully at the age
of 87 after suffering a massive stroke
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Daily Mail [UK], by James Nye
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/8/2013 8:55:39 AM
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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Mother Of Slain Benghazi
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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/7/2013 5:00:16 AM
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/6/2013 12:18:19 PM
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Is going gluten-free
healthier for everybody?
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The Week, by Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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