Plus-size model Crystal Renn fits in her own skin

Crystal Renn was miserable as a super-thin model who had heart palpitations when she'd worry that there might be calories in Diet Coke.

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Web Video Shows World How to Make Geysers

Americans have a new way to celebrate the Fourth of July: Drop Mentos candies into 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke and watch as the soda shoots skyward. For the messy technique, thank Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz.

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Study finds Soda Machines DIRTY, will you still buy?

After an intense discussion with my roommates, I decided to put this question out to my Newsvine community. We read a few articles and watched a video about a study that found that soda machines could be squirting out fecal bacteria into your favorite carbonated beverage!

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Glad to see this article which I posted has prompted so much dialogue. Aspartame turns into among other things FORMALDEHYDE. Only a total idiot, or a stooge/hack working for Ajinomoto/Coke/Pepsi/Wrigley's or Monsanto, would argue that that chemical metabolite is "HARMLESS."

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"It's a five-can day today," my friend Naomi Stern tells me over the phone. We both know what she means — in fact I can almost hear the click-hiss of her first Diet Coke of the morning. blockquote>

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Coke Zero has been successful around the world – but the drink's name has turned out to be a prediction of its commercial prospects in Venezuela.

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You have to give it to our president: he knew what he was doing when he picked Sonia Sotomayor. The formula was simple and utterly predictable:

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ajinomoto is becoming the new Monsanto in 21st Century Get used to new corporate monster!

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The Bush Justice Department continuously tells us it is beleaguered, under-resourced, and having a hard time battling crime. But sometimes its enthusiasm for a prosecution is just effervescent.

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Read one blogger's personal account of giving up Diet Coke for food tshuvah during Elul. This article does a great job of presenting the link between American habits of consumption, sustainablity, sin and tshuvah.

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The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, finally has a scientific explanation.

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When it comes to passing even a non-binding Resolution politely asking the head of the FDA to rescind approval for the neurotoxic artificial sweetener, weak legislators sometimes capitulate to their addictions to Diet Cokes, Equal, Orbit and Eclipse Gum, and sometimes capitulate  …

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Rock stars are like newborn babies: they have to be kept to a strict schedule. Before he goes on stage, heavy-metal legend Alice Cooper takes a one-and-a-half-hour nap. Then an assistant wakes him up and gives him a chocolate-chip cookie followed by a Diet Coke.

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Can adding Vitamins & Minerals help sell more Coke?

Wellness is one of the new and emerging trends. Everyone is going natural and organic and adding Vitamins to just about everything that you can add Vitamins to - including Shampoo and Skin Cream and Deodorants.

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We examine common tech beliefs and do some digging to find out what's true--and what's trumped up.

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Dunedin worker Jackie Lang was fired from her fulltime job at fast-food franchise Subway after she shared a drink with a friend while consoling her during a break.

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Coke is introducing a "healthy" soda--Diet Coke Plus--that will be fortified with vitamins and minerals. Now I can finally stop eating all those veggies!

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Healthful soda? That may strike some as an oxymoron. But for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, it's a marketing opportunity.

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Girly Habits? If the Stiletto Fits...

So I'm reading an article today on Newsvine regarding men's opinion on what their girliest habit is. I'm intrigued, yet already aggravated about the comments I'm going to get from "friends" as they attempt to identify my own habits.

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In 2004, everyone went on and on about product placement and branded entertainment. Now, the next big thing is user-generated content.

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What happens you take 101 Diet Coke, 523 Mentos, and two guys with a little to much time on their hands...........well click and find out.

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I had no idea that Diet Coke and Mentos could be so volatile together. This video is quite entertaining if you have a moment to spare.

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