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A La Carte (11/29)

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Women: The ladies over at GirlTalk provide links to several good articles from the latest issue of the “Journal of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.”

Du Jour: A new book tells us something we already know: women talk three times as much as men. “Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat – and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests.”

Weird: Want to make a sandwich? You may not be able to call it that for long as McDonald’s is attempting to patent the name, claiming the “method and apparatus for making a sandwich as its intellectual property.”


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