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Would you like vodka with that Tang?

2:59 PM Fri, Jul 27, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

It looks like astronauts don't drink Tang after all. Or if they do, they might mix it with vodka. A report out this week claims that NASA astronauts have flown twice while intoxicated. And that apparently doesn't include astronaut Lisa......

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Wanted: Skinny friends

11:37 AM Thu, Jul 26, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

Want to lose weight? Dump your chubby friends and surround yourself with beanpoles. That's my take on a new study reporting that obesity is "socially contagious." The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds that people with......

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Cheating is ruining the lawn-care game

11:22 AM Fri, Jul 20, 2007 | | Comments (5)
By Jack Perry    Email

My son Joey visited Fenway Park recently and returned with a question I had trouble answering. After all, how do you explain to an 8-year-old kid the unfair advantages brought about by chemicals and loads of money? Do you risk......

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Quality time with dad: running with the bulls

3:02 PM Tue, Jul 17, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

AP photo This week's Father of the Year nominee comes from Pamplona, Spain. Some guys are content to take their kids fishing or to play catch with them in the back yard. But in Spain, a father named Luis......

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Faster than a Prius, slow enough to run with the cows

7:41 AM Wed, Jul 11, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

-- I wonder if bicycle racing fans explain away the Tour De France's doping problem the way some baseball fans dismiss Major League Baseball's steroid problem. In baseball, apologists say steroids don't help batters hit 95-mph fastballs. Steroids just make......

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Marching to the beat of the same drummer

2:49 PM Thu, Jul 05, 2007 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

My favorite marcher in the Fourth of July parade isn't the Uncle Sam on stilts, the Elmo character who throws candy to my kids or the World War II veteran wearing his uniform and waving from the jeep. It's the......

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First road rage, now bike path rage

11:43 AM Tue, Jul 03, 2007 | | Comments (1)
By Jack Perry    Email

We've all heard of road rage, but now the police in Arlington, Mass., are dealing with "bikeway rage." The 11-mile Minuteman Bikeway, which runs through Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington and Bedford, has become a stage for all sorts of bad behavior,......

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