Weekly News Round-up
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– For everyone who eats a lot of bagged salads without washing them: Consumer Reports has some bad news for you. (Pictured: A bowl of salad, originally uploaded to Flickr by Anushruti RK.)
– Janice Min wrote a great piece in the New York Post: Confessions of an Alpha Wife.
– WSJ's The Juggle suggests how to make a better to-do list, as well as how to avoid the time suck that is the Internet. (Oooh, and apparently Frontline just ran a story on whether we're all more distracted in the Internet age. Can't wait to check it out.)
– Inc.com has an interesting story on the tattoo removal business.
– Finally: We've noticed a lot of commenters sharing news of sales and coupons, and we certainly hear of a lot of sales throughout the day — so we've launched a new feature on our sidebar for deals. (It's actually a specialized Twitter stream (corporettedeals) because, well, we're lazy.) Heard of a deal that you'd like to share with the readers? E-mail us at deals@corporette.com.
I’m glad to see the corporettedeals twitter stream. It’s a much better place for the coupons than in comment threads.
my mother always told me to go to med school, become a dermatologist, and specialize in tattoo removal and I’d make a fortune in a couple of years when all the people my age got older and realized the tattoos were not helping their professional careers.
Unfortunately, I went to law school. In retrospect, I should have followed my mother’s plan.
The comments on the Alpha wife article are depressing. I am like Janice. My husband is the primary caretaker of the children, and I’m the breadwinner. I also didn’t wear a ring, and still don’t, after 8 years of marriage. I find it bothers me when I type. Apparently this makes me power-hungry and my husband a loser who hit the lottery. Classy stuff.
I don’t think the problem could be limited to bagged salads, so I don’t know why they limited the testing to bagged salads. Surely the greens destined for bagged salads aren’t the only ones contaminated? And the types of bacteria they’re talking about aren’t greatly diminished by washing, as I understand it, only by cooking. I’m much more alarmed about what’s in our meat supply than I am about my bagged salads.