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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a child fatally struck at Rockaway Blvd & Woodhaven Blvd in Queens, a pediatric in respiratory arrest at Audubon Ave and 181st St in Manhattan and a pedestrian struck at Leonard St & Greenpoint Ave in Brooklyn.
  • The 86-year-old woman who was slashed by a home invasion robber wants to go back home. Her grandson said Vivian Squires is still in the hospital, "She's a little scared and she's angry. But she's also joyful that she's alive."
  • Two tenants and a building owner are on trial for the deaths of two firefighters. The Bronx DA's office says that subdividing apartments into windowless rooms "created a death trap."
  • The New York Times says that not only have they ads on their front page before, but they've had them for cocaine. Man, the New York Times is so real.
  • CNN's medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta was approached to be Surgeon General under President-elect Obama. Gupta is also a practicing neurosurgeon.
  • The Target in the Atlantic Center gets the undercover treatment from Fucked in Park Slope.
  • The Nobel Prize Committee might have to consider giving poetry its own category once they get a whiff of Alien vs. Predator.
  • One of the forefathers of punk rock, Ron Asheton of The Stooges, died in Ann Arbor today.
  • And Modern Mechanix has a confession from a woman circa 1965: she hates suburbia!

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from http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm...

Burnett's Cocoaine (c. 1880) contained coconut oil not cocaine as its primary ingredient. Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of products containing cocaine and their association with "modern medicine," some manufacturers developed similarly sounding proprietary names. Burnett's Cocoaine bottles are bought and sold by many modern collectors who mistakenly believe the product contained cocaine. They must be similarly confused about the nature of "cocoa" and "coca" products. ("Cocoanut" is also a variant spelling of "coconut," and hence the aptly named product.)

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a child fatally struck at Rockaway Blvd & Woodhaven Blvd in Queens, a pediatric in respiratory arrest at Audubon Ave and 181st St in Manhattan and a pedestrian struck at Leonard St & Greenpoint Ave in Brooklyn.

My, that's a cheerful selection. And how was your day?

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