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Oprah has reached the 8220;dreaded 2-0-08221; lbs, 91 kg again. As icebergs melted and landfills became mountains...

8216;How Did I Let This Happen Again?8217;/ O Magazine

Oprah has reached the 8220;dreaded 2-0-08221; lbs, 91 kg again. As icebergs melted and landfills became mountains, the talk show host managed to keep the world riveted with her talent for expanding and contracting with the natural ease of a blowfish. Discussing the cultural phenomenon that is her weight, she confesses, 8220;I8217;m mad at myself8230; I look at my thinner self and think, 8216;How did I let this happen again?8217;8221; In the article, she details her thyroid problem and how she 8220;fell off the wagon8221; while battling her 8220;food addiction8221;. For those who haven8217;t been keeping track of her numerous shows on the subject, Oprah describes how her weight yo-yoed between 108 kg to 73 kg over the years.

Disaster in the Making/ The Globe and Mail

While passengers are treated like walking time bombs, ground crews rarely have to go under the scanner. And this is what makes airport security 8220;as porous as Swiss cheese8221; in Canada, says Colin Kenny, former chair of the country8217;s Senate Committee on National Security and Defence. An investigative project by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has found that 58 organised crime groups operate within airports and that at least 298 current or former airport employees were involved in airport crimes. Asking Canadians to 8220;think long and hard about the recent events in Mumbai8221;, Kenny warns that unless more stringent background checks are instituted, 8220;some day, something is going to blow up at one of these airports8230; impending terrorist incidents aren8217;t about if, but when.8221;

Catalogue of Terror/ The Australian

Forces of evil, writes Mike Coward, 8220;have always represented a significant danger to elite cricketers visiting the Indian subcontinent8221;. There8217;s proof too. Before the England team rushed to safety after 26/11, when David Gower8217;s England team arrived in India in 1984, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated and riots followed. Later, the visit of New Zealander Jeff Crowe8217;s team to Sri Lanka in 1986 was ended after rebels near Kandy sprayed four buses with machine-gun fire.8221; The final point: 8220;While the notion of cricket diplomacy is laudable, countries with a history of unstable government and inured to civil unrest and violence make problematic cricket hosts.8221;

Is Blago8217;s Hair a Sign of Sickness?/ Chicago Sun-Times

That disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich8217;s 8220;chestnut helmet8221; is a fashion abomination is clear, but according to this article, it8217;s an extension of the deviations beneath his scalp. According to psychologists, Blagojevich8217;s locks indicate that he suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

8220;It8217;s part of managing his image of being without a flaw,8221; says psychologist Scott Ambers. With his delusions of grandeur, Blagojevich may have felt so protected by his hair helmet that 8220;he felt a certain kind of immunity8212;8217;they are not going to punish me8230; I will outfox them8217;.8221;

Blog: Congress Matters

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It8217;s a top liberal political blog in the US, and now the DailyKos has launched a new website, Congress Matters, which promises to act as a 8220;community-based political watch8221; for Democrats. 8220;It8217;ll be a place where we8217;ll try to explain Congressional rules and procedure so that the netroots community gets a better handle on it and can become more effective advocates for their priorities,8221; says former Congressional aide David Waldman, who blogs under the name Kagro X.