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August 6, 2010
Crazy Scary Mystery Bat Disease/Drug Conspiracy Scaring Bats, Creatures of the Night Everywhere
Do you know any bats? Any Batmen, Batgirls, or Bat-Children? Tell them to be scared, aware, and on the lookout! As bats everywhere are being persecuted by...
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February 18, 2010
Crazed Raccoon Alert! Rabid Animals Target Central Park
Central Park joggers and dog-walkers: Watch out for rabid raccoons. Infected animals are popping up in and around the park in shockingly high numbers, especially north of 96th Street and along Central Park West. Less than two months into 2010, there have already been more identified cases of animal ... More >>
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October 12, 2009
"Bovine Spinal Columns" Lead Japan to Ban Tyson Beef Shipments
In another big step forward for food safety and international diplomacy, a Tyson meatpacking facility has been banned from shipping beef to Japan after Japanese authorities discovered bovine spinal columns in 732 boxes shipped from the Nebraska plant. Although Tyson claimed the delivery was the resu ... More >>
Columns
May 6, 2009
Ask a Mexican: Special Pandemic Edition
Name this flu after a real swine!
Blogs
April 30, 2009
Swine Flu PANIC Lessens Despite Level 5 Upgrade and Joe Biden
The World Health Organization upgraded the worldwide swine flu panic to Level 5, but out our way people are still walking around as if nothing much were happening, though another local school, Bishop Kearney in Bensonhurst, has been closed. Twitterers are getting sick, not from swine flu but of it: ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
A Week Into the Pandemic... The Swine Flu Cocktail
Photo by Esparta @ Flickr You had to expect this one. Incorporating tequila (a not-so-subtle nod to Mexico), an absinthe wash (for its medicinal qualities), and bacon-infused bourbon (what would a swine flu cocktail be without pork, after all?!), NY Drinks Examiner Robert Haynes-Peterson offers up ... More >>
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April 30, 2009
Bloomberg Foils Biden with Daring Swine Flu Subway Ride
Mayor Bloomberg rode the subway today and said he felt "perfectly safe." Of course he does -- he's surrounded by bodyguards and, if attacked, can shoot deadly streams of money from his sleeves. But he meant from swine flu contamination -- the trip, broadcast on local TV news, was evidently meant to ... More >>
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April 29, 2009
Swine Being Tested for Swine Flu; Former FDA Head Pens Expose on Overeating
A study from the University of California, Irvine has revealed that the oleic acids found in fatty foods are converted into a memory-enhancing agent when digested. Drugs that are said to mimic this action are being tested. [BBC] An Israeli health official has called for swine flu to be renamed "Me ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2009
Swine Flu PANIC! Continues; First U.S. Death; Big Pork Forces Name Change
A poor Mexican child, who travelled with his family from his native land to Brownsville, Texas, has died just short of his second birthday from swine flu. The attendant headlines all read "First U.S. Swine Flu Death," and everyone is panicking even more, as is their patriotic duty. The Times hollers ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2009
Mexican Flu? (But What Would Rabbi Gamaliel Call Baconnaise?)
It's good to know there is still a voice of reason in this swine flu shanda: While high schools bring in Mexican cleaning crews to disinfect their auditoriums, world leaders declare travel bans, and Matt Drudge screams at us through our computer, Israeli authorities have been arguing about what to ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2009
Swine Flu Unrelated to Actual Pigs; Meat Will Still Kill You
The United Nations' food agency sent animal health experts to Mexico to determine if swine flu is really linked to pigs. So far, there is no evidence that humans contracted this strain of flu from our porcine friends. [Reuters] Food Network has launched Food2, a new website aimed at a young, hipper ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2009
Your Morning Dose of Swine Flu Panic
You already know that we're all going to die of swine flu. But! Did you know that the World Health Organization -- sponsored by the U.N., which patriots normally deride and ignore unless they need to be scared -- has upgraded the pandemic threat level from 3 to 4? That means "sustained human to hu ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2009
City Health Big Says "Hundreds" of Swine Flu Cases; CDC Says 45. (UPDATE: 2nd School Closed; Brother Leonard Speaks!)
You know how it is -- one kid gets swine flu, and the next thing you know everybody's got it. New York health commissioner Thomas Frieden says he now suspects "many hundreds" of swine flu cases in the city. CDC still says we have a total of 45, making 64 cases nationally, but they're just trying to ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
Swine Flu in Queens, Elsewhere in U.S.; Mexico Death Toll Over 100
A sickness that people get from having direct contact with pigs has now spread to kids in New York. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control confirmed that eight children at a Queens prep school have contracted swine flu, a strain of flu common in pigs and extremely rare in humans. Only twelve tota ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2009
New York Swine Flu Cases Up to 28; More Mexican Deaths
The CDC now has New York's new swine flu cases at 28. The Mayor confirms the news. The U.S. total is now 40. The outbreak is said to be affecting the stock market. The Times is taking reader questions about the virus, to be answered later by their health reporter Pam Belluck. Michigan may be added ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2009
Incredibly Annoying Food Songs
Our staff at Fork in the Road has been busy the last few weeks evaluating youtubes, seeking to find not the best and most uplifiting, but the very most annoying songs about food. Songs that make you grit your teeth, then make you laugh, turn your computer off, and take a walk outside in the sunshine ... More >>
NYC Life
April 17, 2007
Nature Calls
New Yorkers love cell phones. How about the bees?
News
January 11, 2005
The Crowning of Bush
The lavish inaugural will cost you a lot—as if it's any of your business
News
January 11, 2005
Warning: Mad Cow Crossing
The lavish inaugural will cost you a lot—as if it's any of your business
News
March 27, 2001
Fowl Play
Chicken Giant Behind Hoof, Mouth?
News
March 20, 2001
Nation
Chicken Giant Behind Hoof, Mouth?

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