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href="http://londonist.com/2008/01/6_years_on_amne.php">Amnesty International bringing Guantanamo Bay to the American embassy to raise the profile of the continuing campaign to close the detention center.

  • Seattlest reviewed J.J. Abrams' new camcorder monster movie.
  • DCist was relieved to hear that Stephen Colbert's portrait is finally hanging up in the National Portrait Gallery.
  • Austin was in shock after hearing about an Arlington stepfather who sodomized his stepson who sodomized his daughter.
  • Chicagoist healthily reported on week three of the smoking ban.
  • Houstonist saw a recent Rice University scientific creation, touted as "the darkest substance known to man."
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    Courtney Hall, Ninth Grade Teacher

    Our little Twinkie is all grown up -- this cream-filled snack cake is turning 75 this month. Despite the rumors that Twinkies are so chemical-filled that they never go bad, in reality, the shelf like of a Twinkie is actually around 25 days, according to Theresa Cogswell, vice president for research and development at Interstate Bakeries Corporation, Hostess' parent company. The Washington Post notes that

    a 25-day shelf life is pretty long. That's because Twinkies contain no dairy-based ingredients that could quickly go bad. Twinkies are basically flour, sugar (three kinds of it), oil, eggs and chemicals (mainly preservatives and stabilizers).

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