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• 'Miracle' -- teen's heart, stopped for 4 days, beats again

This story is incredible to me because a teenage boy collapsed in his PE class because of a congenial heart failure. His heart had stopped beating completely. He was put on a machine and put on the heart transplant waiting list. Four days later, his heart simply started beating again. One thing that the news always seems to do is call everything good that happens a miracle. It only bothers me when they do it for something that goes good in a normal way, because it makes people believe that good things never happen. But this really does sound, in its best description, like a miracle.

• Size zero: The boys

As if our country needed any more unhealthy idols to admire, there has been a trend in the fashion world trying to find male models who are pencil thin. The look they're trying to achieve is more androgynous look. Seriously. I'm not sure why this trend has taken hold, but alas it has. What is even more unfortunate is that it is starting to take the same road that this has led to for female models. Anorexia and bulimia are now starting to become more common in male models throughout the industry.

I never did understand the obsession with dangerously thin people. In my mind, they're just not very attractive. There is nothing about being that unhealthy that looks glamorous to me, or makes me want to look like that. Although, I must admit, I do feel self-conscious when I see guys on magazine covers who also have muscled bodies, so I guess this isn't anything terribly new for men. Gods know it's nothing new for women...

• Country radio still cold to Dixie Chicks
  

So am I the only one who's tired of hearing about this bullshit?!?!? Seriously folks, they said what we now ALL know to be true. Before only a handfull of us seemed to know it with some skeptics and a whole lot of people who had an inkling, but now we ALL know it!! Some conservatives accused the Grammy's of being "out of touch" with the American people. I say look who's calling the kettle black! The Grammy's are not in place to praise our political system or the people in it. The awards show is there to award good music and good music artists.

The Billboard country music correspondent had this to say, "If you're trying to offer an olive branch to country radio, that's not the way to do it," said Ken Tucker, "The Chicks are celebrating being the outlaws."

The fact that the man is surprised seems so rediculous to me. Most of what country music culture is today is a celebration of being outside the mainstream and "redneck". If you take people who disagree with you, but come from that same line of thinking, then guess what? That means you're not the rebels anymore, redneck. You're the one lagging behind!

• The story about the miracle can be reached by clicking here.
• The story about the male models can be reached by clicking here.
• The story about the Dixie Chicks at the Grammy's can be reached by clicking here.