My Top 10 Ingredients for a Healthy SNAP DietHuffington Post (blog)This week, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker admirably decided to take the SNAP challenge and live on a typical food stamp budget of $30 for a week. He's most likely hungry, a tad cranky and probably sleepy. Forty-seven million …
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The Drum eBay reports its biggest ever mobile Christmas in the UK as mobile sales jump …The DrumeBay has reported that more than three million Brits logged on to the site on Sunday 2 December, dubbed 'Super Sunday', via their mobile devices. The number of mobile visitors to the site …
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