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Fashion to Figure, Facebook Are Plus-Sized Women All the Rage in High Fashion?
While the average American woman is five-foot-four, weighs 164 pounds and wears a size 14 to 16, you’d never know it by looking at magazine covers or shopping in many clothing stores. But that seems to be changing.
jasleen_kaur, Flickr How Does Your County Rank in Overall Health?
This year’s County Health Rankings, which size up the relative health of people in more than 3,000 US counties, was released Tuesday. And although each county was only compared to others within the same state, there are some interesting and revealing general findings.
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FurLined, Flickr Brooklyn Parents Want to Ban the Ice Cream Man
Residents of the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY know that spring is around the corner when ice cream carts start popping up in the area’s Prospect Park.
But according to a number of Park Slope parents, this time-honored tradition is causing them a special kind of ice cream headache.
ArcaMax Real-Life Garfield Is the Fattest Cat in Italy, But Doesn’t Eat Pizza
Think of everything that describes the cartoon cat Garfield. Fat. Orange. Loves pizza. Fat. Lazy. Funny… Fat. Now imagine that there’s a cat in real life that embodies most of these qualities and what you get is Orazio, the fattest cat in Italy.
John and Helen Collins Learning Center/Door County Sheriffs Office 80-Year-Old Woman Miraculously Lands Plane After Dying Pilot Husband Collapses [VIDEO]
It’s one thing to be cool under pressure. It’s quite another to be an inexperienced pilot landing a plane while your husband is in critical condition beside you.
NYPD Disturbing al Qaeda Graphic Sparks FBI Investigation
It seems al Qaeda, the group responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, fancies itself a graphics design powerhouse as well. The creepy image above, which depicts the New York City skyline with the caption “Al Qaeda Coming Soon Again in New York,” was posted on a radical overseas website, and police and the FBI are investigating.
YouTube Baby Rescued From Well Thanks to iPhone
Two-year-old stuck in a well? There’s an app for that.
Rescue workers in Mengzi City, China had the daunting task of freeing a toddler who had fallen into a 40-foot well. While they could hear the boy’s cries, they couldn’t really see him. This posed a problem when he kept slipping out of the adult-sized harness they had sent down the shaft.
