maricor's Favorite Quote: if people are tryin to pull you down just be proud of it,it only means theie is one thing you are above them and one sure reason why they would hate you coz they just wanted to become just like you.

Top 10 Most Annoying Pop Songs of 2009
These are the songs that made our ears bleed this year. A special award goes to Whitney Houston for making a comeback in order to provide us with music to be annoyed to.
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2009's Best Rock Albums So Far
The interesting thing about this list to me is how many of the albums on it were made by fairly venerable bands. (I'm looking at you, U2. Bono's wrinkle-hiding sunglasses aren't fooling anyone.)
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10 Great 2009 Debut Albums
This is the definition of an alternative band: The Very Best originally got attention for offering a free mix tape online. I don't even care if their album is any good, after that. They still win.
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5 Rules for Cooking a Perfect Turkey
The trouble is that turkey, while delicious when cooked properly, is pretty easy to mess up. Anyone who's ever bitten into a bird-shaped hunk of shoe leather can attest to how badly things can go wrong.
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Will Roast Turkey Always Be Dry?
There's also a school of thought that believes the whole problem is roasting the turkey in the first place. I'm willing to listen to arguments, although this whole discussion is making me hungry.
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How to Handle Poultry Safely
Step one in turkey prep should always be ensuring that your turkey prep doesn't make you (or someone you love) sick during the holidays.
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Walking for Weight Loss
Part of the problem is that I really just don't like to exercise. If the choice is take a nap or go to the gym, the nap wins every time. But unless I have very vivid dreams about exercising, I need to find something to do to get my heart rate up. My current vote is for walking, because it involves fresh air and spying on my neighbors.
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How I Walked off the Weight
One of my favorite stories in this bunch is Jheveran's, who has lost 25 pounds by walking and eating more fruits and veggies, among other modifications.
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Submit Your Weight-Loss Story
Have a walking weight-loss success story of your own? Write in and help me - er, our readers. Yes. Help our readers.
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Top 5 Gifts for Dogs
Luke is pretty easy to shop for. If he can eat it or wrestle it, he likes it. I'm thinking about getting him the Slobber-Wick Squeak Buddy from this list - mostly because I want an excuse to say "Slobber-Wick" a lot on Christmas this year.
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