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Mom’s Guide to Online Espionage

The Wall Street Journal (which, refreshingly for a biz publication, frequently captures the wacky dynamics of modern motherhood) ran a piece last Wednesday chronicling all the ways kids try to outsmart their moms and get onto Facebook and other social media sites that parents have forbidden. I read the article in our kitchen via old-school newsprint while my three kids hovered around me immersed in our familys iPhones, iPads, and Macbooks.

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Lipitor Recall Grows by 19,000 Bottles

The Lipitor recall continues with Pfizer’s recall of 19,000 additional bottles of the popular cholesterol drug. A musty smell has led to four recalls, totaling 345,000 bottles recalled since August 2010. The musty odor comes from TBA, a chemical used to treat the wooden pallets on which the product was stored. Pfizer says the foul-smelling bottles were supplied by a third-party bottle manufacturer, and that the company prohibits use of TBA-treated wood to ship its medicines.

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The Enzymatic Whole Body Cleanse

The enzymatic whole body cleanse is an over-the-counter colon cleansing system that purports to offer relief from such problems as low energy levels, weight gain, fatigue, skin problems and headaches, just to name a few. The colon cleansing trend, popular among proponents of alternative health remedies, can be traced back to ancient Greece. The idea behind these regimens is to improve health by flushing dangerous toxins out of the body through the colon. According to marketers of enzymatic cleansing kits, the sources of these toxins include processed food, pollution, hormones used in the livestock industry and pesticides.