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FOLKS: O, FOR SHAME!
By ISABEL VINCENT
The Secret Service might want to put a new threat on its watch list: the mad-as-hell mama of the 17-year-old Brazilian beauty ogled by President Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit last week.
"If I were there, I would have...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/worldnews/folks__o__for_shame__178798.htm
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THE TAJ MAHARLEM
By STEFANIE COHEN
A dashing but kooky real estate broker has turned his $12 million uptown digs into a spiritual center and B & B dubbed the "Taj Maharlem" that outraged neighbors claim is really an unlicensed nightclub.
Michel Madie, 51, a Realtor who holds...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/regionalnews/the_taj_maharlem_178774.htm
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CITY'S $5.5M PAYOUT TO INJURED CRACKHEAD
By ANGELA MONTEFINISE
Taxpayers forked over $5.5 million to a crackhead rendered a paraplegic while fleeing from police.
Manuel Martinez, now 29, received one of the top city personal-injury payouts this year after being hit by a cop car and left unable to walk...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/regionalnews/citys_5_5m_payout_to_injured_crackhead_178780.htm
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HOSP-ITALITY ABU$E
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS and MELISSA KLEIN
These bums are costing you a fortune.
Ricky Alardo, a homeless alcoholic nicknamed Ricky Ricardo, swigs cheap vodka by day at his favorite corner in Washington Heights, then calls an ambulance to chauffeur him to the hospital for a free meal and...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/regionalnews/hosp_itality_abue_178789.htm
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RIKERS RAP GIG SPARKED A WAR
By REUVEN BLAU, SUSAN EDELMAN and BRAD HAMILTON
City jail officials are investigating a rap concert at Rikers Island -- approved by a hip-hop-loving warden -- that triggered months of bloody gang violence there, The Post has learned.
Correction officials are looking into why supervisors --...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/regionalnews/rikers_rap_gig_sparked_a_war_178802.htm
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RED LIGHT ON KNOCKOFF JEWEL SELLER
By PHILIP MESSING and ANNIE KARNI
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/regionalnews/red_light_on_knockoff_jewel_seller_178778.htm
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WORKER BIAS GRIPES SOARING
By JAMES FANELLI
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/regionalnews/worker_bias_gripes_soaring_178782.htm
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---- National -----
A REAL PRINCE CHARMING
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/nationalnews/a_real_prince_charming_178785.htm
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MJ AT THE END: LOVED BY MEN & $CREWED BY GREEDY HANDLERS
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/nationalnews/mj_at_the_end__loved_by_men__crewed_by_g_178803.htm
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---- International -----
BOXER DEATH SHOCK
By ISABEL VINCENT and TIM PERONE, AP
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/worldnews/boxer_death_shock_178783.htm
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THE VANISHING CLASS
By CATHERINE CURAN
America's middle class is disappearing.
The very Americans the Obama administration is hoping will lift the economy out of recession are facing epic challenges.
NEW YORK CITY'S MIDDLE CLASS IS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET
As a result of a...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/business/the_vanishing_class_178755.htm
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A SUBPAR BIZ CONFAB
By PETER LAURIA - SUN VALLEY CHRONICLES
Another year, and Allen & Co.'s media mogulfest ended on a low note.
The week always holds so much promise, with the collision of money men, media machers and technology trendsetters creating a palpable feeling that something big could happen...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/business/a_subpar_biz_confab_178801.htm
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'PSYCHOPATH' DYKSTRA $TRIKES OUT
By PAUL THARP
Lenny Dykstra's financial count is no balls, two strikes with a 99-mile- per-hour fastball he may never catch up to.
The downfall of ex-baseball star Dykstra ends a long spiral of erratic behavior that some friends label as the battle...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/business/psychopath_dykstra_trikes_out_178794.htm
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BAM: NO NEED FOR A SECOND $TIMULUS
By GINGER ADAMS OTIS with Post Wire Services
President Obama dismissed talk of a second stimulus package yesterday, promising that the nation's anemic economy would soon be beefed up by his initial $787 billion recovery plan.
"We must let it work the way it's supposed to, with the...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/business/bam__no_need_for_a_second_timulus_178765.htm
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NEW YORK CITY'S MIDDLE CLASS IS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET
By MICHAEL GRAY
New York City's 700,000 middle class families are being squeezed as never before, and they are leaving.
Although their earnings are far higher than the US middle-class average, their cost of living expenses far exceed the national average.
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full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/business/new_york_citys_middle_class_is_voting_wi_178756.htm
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BODY & SOLD
By SALLY SATEL
Did Steve Jobs' wealth buy him a faster liver transplant It certainly helped -- and the Apple CEO's odyssey showcases some of the problems with organ donations in America.
The 54-year-old Jobs lives in California, where precious livers are...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/body__sold_178850.htm
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WHY SAVE JACKO'S BRAIN
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
High among the creepy questions lingering after Michael Jackson's death: What is happening with his brain
As reported, it was removed from the body for further examination -- a standard practice whenever an autopsy is conducted. (A fresh brain...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/why_save_jackos_brain__178849.htm
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SOTOMAYOR'S FULL COURT PRESS
By ROBERT ALT
Tomorrow, the Senate begins confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Lawmakers have a duty to ask tough questions and to seek real answers before confirming her to the highest court in the land.
Throughout...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/sotomayors_full_court_press_178848.htm
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WAR.COM
By SHARON WEINBERGER
It's a scenario so far-fetched, it sounds like something out of "South Park": Somewhere in the heart of North Korea, an elite unit of computer geeks hacks into the Pentagon's computer network, stealing the US military's most prized...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/war_com_178847.htm
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HAMILTON HEIGHTS
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 800 Maintenance: $866 -- "Less than 10 steps" from several subway lines and the crosstown bus, this "gut-renovated" co-op on West 145th Street offers great park and city views, along with high ceilings, new...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092009/realestate/hamilton_heights_178255.htm
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MURRAY HILL
Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 800 Maintenance: $1,060 -- The "warmth" of this prewar "masterpiece" on lower Park Avenue has been maintained, but just about everything else has been updated for the 21st century. This includes an expanded...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092009/realestate/murray_hill_178256.htm
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WESTHAMPTON BEACH, LI
By VICTOR WISHNA
At just a hair under $3 million, this could be your "quintessential" Hamptons dream home at a pretty dreamy price (for the Hamptons, anyway). "Immaculately" renovatedand appointed, the Dune Road house offers "unobstructed" views of the ocean and...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092009/realestate/westhampton_beach__li_178250.htm
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
Bedrooms: 0 Bathrooms: 1 Square feet: 650 Maintenance: $794 -- Though it "needs TLC," once you see this "spacious" co-op studio on Livingston Street, we presume you will consider it a good deal. There's "great" closet space and views through a...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092009/realestate/brooklyn_heights_178254.htm
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Weird But True
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By KATHIANNE BONIELLO, POST WIRES
This heavy-metal family has issues.
A Pennsylvania teen who removed her belly ring after her skin became infected was attacked by relatives who held her down and tried to reinsert the piece, police in Mechanicsburg said.
The two adults were...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/weirdbuttrue/weirdbuttrue.htm
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By JOHN DOYLE
Queens
* An Israeli man threatened to blow up a plane at Kennedy Airport, authorities said.
Nissim Amano, 24, was boarding a Delta Airlines flight for Tel Aviv Tuesday when he shouted, "I have a bomb in my pocket! I'm going to blow up this...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/news/nypdblotter/nypdblotter.htm
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MATT TRYNAUER: VALENTINO 'DIFFICULT'
MATT Tyrnauer, who dedicated the last few years to making and promoting "Valentino: The Last Emperor," called the fashion designer (above) "the most difficult man to ever walk the world" the other night in Toronto. But Tyrnauer said Valentino...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/gossip/pagesix/matt_trynauer__valentino_difficult_178777.htm
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GUIDE TRANSLATES INTO TROUBLE
IN a jaw-dropper that could be straight out of the movie "Bruno," the best-selling book "Gay Travels in the Muslim World" has been translated into Arabic -- but with the title equating gays to perverts.
And Michael Luongo, who penned the...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/gossip/pagesix/guide_translates_into_trouble_178786.htm
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CELEBRITIES IN OUR SIGHTS
ROBERT Verdi being thronged by women at the Warren Tricomi Salon in The Plaza as he filmed his reality show, "She's Got the Look" . . . MAYA Rudolph "chatting with every fan that approached her" at the Public Theater on La fayette Street during...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/gossip/pagesix/celebrities_in_our_sights_178787.htm
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SURPRISE SMOOCH
VANITY Fair writer Vicky Ward was taken aback when a waiter at La Grenouille planted a long kiss as he delivered her 40th birthday cake -- until she realized it was her husband, Matthew Doull. Pushy publicist Peggy Siegal toasted the scribe as 20...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/gossip/pagesix/surprise_smooch_178784.htm
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A SUMMER COUNTRY GAL I'M NOT!
By CINDY ADAMS
GARAGE sales and the Hamptons go to gether like funerals and Al Sharpton. I owned a Bridge hampton house for my mother. Ten years ago when she left me, I left there. In the last four years, I have only been in any Hampton once.
At the risk of...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/gossip/cindy/a_summer_country_gal_im_not__178759.htm
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-- POPWRAP --
* 'True Blood' Throws One Hell of A Party
http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/archives/2009/07/true_blood_thro.html
* Jen Aniston's Costly Good Deed!
http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/archives/2009/07/jen_anistons_costly_good_deed.html
* Elle MacPherson: Still 'The Body'
http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/archives/2009/07/elle_macpherson.html
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INJURIES ALWAYS TURN OUT WORSE THAN METS EXPECT
By BRIAN COSTELLO
The way the first half of the season has gone for the Mets it would not be surprising to see Mr. Met on crutches today at Citi Field.
METS BLOG
HUBBUCH ON TWITTER
One by one, the Mets have lost players to the disabled list this season raising...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/mets/injuries_always_turn_out_worse_than_mets_178856.htm
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PETTITTE GETS ROCKED AS HALOS BEDEVIL 'EM AGAIN
By GEORGE A. KING III
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- If, as the Yankees want you to believe, Joba Chamberlain is young and learning to be a starter, does that mean age has wrapped a blanket around Andy Pettitte
BOX SCORE
YANKEES BLOG
One game after Chamberlain's third...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/yankees/pettitte_gets_rocked_as_halos_bedevil_em_178823.htm
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IF ONLY MUNSON WERE HERE TO FEEL LOVE OF YANK FANS
By MIKE VACCARO
HERE is the thing that makes me saddest whenever I think of Thurman Munson: He should be the star next week when the Yankees conduct what remains one of the greatest traditions in sports, Old-Timers' Day. He should be the featured attraction...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/moresports/if_only_munson_were_here_to_feel_love_of_178859.htm
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HBO'S 'TED WILLIAMS' IS RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE
By PHIL MUSHNICK
HBO's Ted Williams documentary shouldn't be missed for two entirely related reasons: It's superb, and it doesn't mess around with wishful notions drawn from a wishing well.
HBO Sports has produced or presented two kinds of...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/moresports/hbos_ted_williams_is_right_down_the_midd_178858.htm
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A-ROD HITS TOP 10 WITH PAIR OF HRS
By GEORGE A. KING III
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/yankees/a_rod_hits_top_10_with_pair_of_hrs_178821.htm
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SNEAK PEAK AT NY STARS OF FUTURE
By KEVIN KERNAN
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/yankees/sneak_peak_at_ny_stars_of_future_178809.htm
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---- Mets -----
AMAZIN'S GET BOOST FROM FRENCHY'S DEBUT
By BART HUBBUCH
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/mets/amazins_get_boost_from_frenchys_debut_178828.htm
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METS WASTING NO TIME SIGNING PICKS
By TIM BONTEMPS
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/mets/mets_wasting_no_time_signing_picks_178807.htm
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CAN'T LURE 2010 STAR WITHOUT SIDEKICK
By MARC BERMAN
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/knicks/cant_lure_2010_star_without_sidekick_178827.htm
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---- Liberty -----
CARSON, LIBERTY RALLY FOR LATE VICTORY
By BRIAN LEWIS
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/liberty/carson__liberty_rally_for_late_victory_178824.htm
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GABORIK SETTING HIS GOALS HIGH
By LARRY BROOKS
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/sports/rangers/gaborik_setting_his_goals_high_178808.htm
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Horoscope - http://www.nypost.com/horoscope/horoscope.htm
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---- Aries -----
It will pay you to be more open emotionally this week, especially if you are the sort of Aries who finds talking about your feelings a bit embarrassing. Let partners and loved know what is in your heart as well as in your head...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/aries.htm
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---- Libra -----
You don't lack for ideas. Your head is bursting with them. But do you have what it takes to turn those ideas into realities, and make money from them in the process The Sun in Cancer says you do, so get your act together over the next few days...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/libra.htm
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---- Taurus -----
You may not want to hurt someone's feelings but you have to be honest with them this week. Tuesday's Sun-Mercury link will help you to find the words to explain why you need more emotional freedom -- and why it will be good for them too...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/taurus.htm
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---- Scorpio -----
You will enjoy a surge of energy and enthusiasm over the next few days. Most noticeably your thinking skills will improve in leaps and bounds and some of your ideas will be revolutionary. But be quick. Your rivals are thinking along the same lines...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/scorpio.htm
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---- Gemini -----
Good news concerning your money situation is coming your way and should arrive in your inbox or mailbox by midweek at the latest. However, resist the urge to go on a spree until you have that extra cash in your hand. Even then, spend it wisely...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/gemini.htm
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---- Sagittarius -----
Cosmic activity in your opposite sign of Gemini suggests it is time for a change, especially if you have been putting a lot of effort into a relationship for so little in return. It can still be saved, but can you be...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/sagittarius.htm
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---- Cancer -----
As mind planet Mercury joins forces with the Sun in your birth sign this week you will at long last be able to think clearly and let others know what it is you need and desire. Too often in the past your wants have been vague, but not any more...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/cancer.htm
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---- Capricorn -----
You know what needs doing but you still need others' permission before you embark on a course of action that will affect family and friends as well as yourself. Explain what it is you hope to achieve -- they'll understand and approve...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/capricorn.htm
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---- Leo -----
Take care not to annoy people on whom your professional and financial well-being is likely to depend. You have a tendency to speak first and worry about what you have said afterwards, but now you must use your head...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/leo.htm
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---- Aquarius -----
As an Aquarius you like to be at the cutting edge of change, be it social or technological, but not everyone shares your passion for the future. You will have your work cut out this week persuading others to be more forward looking. But try anyway...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/aquarius.htm
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---- Virgo -----
A work colleague will praise you to the skies this week and you will beam with pride. Quite right too. You have lots to be proud of, not least that you always do a first rate job, no matter how big or how small it may be...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/virgo.htm
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---- Pisces -----
The clouds will part and you will see nothing but blue skies this week. Your attitude to life in general will improve in leaps and bounds and you'll know without a shadow of doubt that the future is bright -- your future especially...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07122009/horoscope/pisces.htm
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Pulse - Fashion, Food, Movies, Music, Theater & Health http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/entertainment.htm
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ASIAN-AMERICAN COMICS DRAW ATTENTION
By ALISA WOLFSON
IF you think ComiCon is cool, imagine sitting in a classroom with the creators of your favorite comics and talking to them one-on-one. That's what will be happening at the Asian-American ComiCon, a smaller, more intimate kind of comics...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/entertainment/asian_american_comics_draw_attention_178665.htm
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RETURN TO RADIO DAYS
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
AS a medium, radio means as much to the i-Everything generation as telegrams.
That's why it takes an unconventional -- if not somewhat sentimental -- ensemble to pull together what Greenwich Village performance space Le Poisson Rouge is doing...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/entertainment/music/return_to_radio_days_178664.htm
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SHAKE IT!
By CARLA SPARTOS
IT'S party time, people. And nothing will put you at the center of attention faster than some booze, some ice and a blender -- especially if you happen to be at the beach, the park or pretty much anywhere outdoors. Team Pulse put three portable...
full story: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112009/entertainment/food/shake_it__178663.htm
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