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Links: How to recycle gadgets, Junk Food=Crack, H1N1 Vaccination Clinics Open, Baby Gift Ideas

Nov 6 2009
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Links: How to recycle gadgets, Junk Food=Crack, H1N1 Vaccination Clinics Open, Baby Gift Ideas

Some hopefully helpful and interesting links going into your weekend: Find out about the vaccination clinics opening this weekend for middle and high schoolers, the definitive resource on how to recycle your gadgets, great ideas for baby gifts for people that have no space, and our own contributor, Bess, was shown on Good Morning America this week in her "real" job.

How-to: recycle your old gadgets—a guide to individual companies' recycling programs (if they have them), and a list of general and governmental resources that are well-respected and reputed within the industry. [engadget]

Junk food 'as addictive as drugs'—A British neuroscientist has found that a diet of foods that are high in sugar, salt and fat will program your brain into craving even more of the same. [UK Telegraph]

Yoga for Cancer Patients—Yoga is being used to treat Cancer, ADD and other ailments in children. Mommy Poppins conributor, Bess Abrahams, is featured on Good Morning America helping children with cancer at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx practice yoga to deal with their disease.

Weekend Vaccination Clinics Start for Middle and High Schoolers—Beginning Saturday, middle and high school students can receive free swine flu vaccinations at weekend clinics throughout the city. [NY Times]

Small Space Baby Gifts—What to buy for apartment dwellers for whom every square inch counts. [CoolMomPicks]

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