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For the past year, Food52.com readers have been voting in weekly showdowns of reader-submitted recipes on a given theme. The winning recipes of each week will end up in Food52's upcoming cookbook, along with bios of the people who submitted them (Food52 explains the process in simple detail here).Food52 and its co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs have invited you, fun-loving HuffPost Food readers, to vote on Week 1's (we're restarting!) contest.

Food52's Best Fresh Mozzarella Recipes Showdown: Vote For The Best Dish

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While the UN says that the world is on track to reach the first Millennium Development Goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015, progress toward goal #5, to reduce maternal mortality by 75% by 2015, remains the target for which progress has been most disappointing. While there is progress, as highlighted by the Lancet's recent estimates of falling maternal mortality rate, which is worth celebrating, the sense of urgency has not, and should not, abate.According to Karl Hofmann's recent article in the Huffington Post, with an additional $10 billion annually by 2010 and $20 billion by 2015 -- there is just enough time to achieve MDG 5. The G8 summit gets underway today in Muskoka, Canada, is timely in that a focus of the summit is a new G8 initiative -- conceived and led by Canada -- to improve maternal, newborn, and child health in poor countries. With almost $3 billion already pledged by the Canadian government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, more commitments are expected from G8 partners for what is now being called the Muskoka Initiative.More...

Making Preventing Maternal Mortality Within Reach

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As the lessons of the mortgage crisis are studied by historians in the coming years, a significant and widely overlooked consequence that will no doubt emerge is how it's set back the economic mobility of minorities in this country by at least 20 years.The statistics are astonishing. A recent study found that 20 percent of Latino homeowners and 11 percent of African-American homeowners have either already lost their homes or are at high risk of doing so. Add it all up, and Latinos and African Americans are expected to lose an estimated $273 billion in wealth because of foreclosures.More...

The Color of the Mortgage Crisis

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My critical review of CNN's first "Gay In America" episode, Gary & Tony Have a Baby, sparked a firestorm of controversy. Fellow contributor Cathy Renna also weighed in with a post entitled, "Gary and Tony have a baby, Bil Browning has a cow and I have some things to say." What else was everyone talking about? Here's the best from the past week:SundayMore...

Weekly Reader: Home Depot, Surrogacy, & Gay Republicans

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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- Luis Suarez scored twice as Uruguay beat South Korea 2-1 on Saturday and advanced to the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in 40 years.Playing in swirling wind and rain, Suarez scored the winner in the 80th minute - sidestepping two defenders and curling a right-footed shot off the post from the edge of the area.More...

Uruguay Eliminates South Korea From World Cup With Late Goal (VIDEO)

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 Okay, people are supporting the troops in ways that are deeply important, in ways that as a country, we got a lot of work to do. There are physical injuries that even I can understand, but beyond that, there's traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the invisible damage to troops, like post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD.)More...

"Healing combat trauma" and "The Brain at War"

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One of the gems buried in Michael Hastings' now ubiquitous Rolling Stone article is a senior adviser to General McChrystal thanking his lucky stars for public ignorance of the state of the war:More...

Love the Afghanistan War in Public at Your Peril

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Katy Perry is raising awareness for her new album by posing topless, modesty in tact, in the UK edition of Esquire.She and fiance Russell Brand share a love of chest flaunting.

Katy Perry Topless: Strips For Esquire UK (PHOTO)

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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa — Germany's latest World Cup victory over England will be remembered not for any of the brilliant goals, but for the one that didn't count.Ask anyone – players, coaches, thousands of fans in the stadium and millions more watching on television – and there's little question that Frank Lampard put a shot in the net late in the first half that would have tied the score.More...

World Cup 2010: Germany Beats England 4-1

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That's how former Texas Governor and Attorney General Mark White described our SueWallStreet.com lawsuit and briefing.Prominent attorneys and legal scholars including the Dean of the Law School at the University of California, Irvine and the former President of the State Bar of Texas have voiced their support. And, hundreds have signed our petition at SueWallStreet.com

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