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Study Reveals Drinking Coffee Can Lower Your Chances of Skin Cancer

Shauna Wright — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:04:21 +0000

Want to avoid skin cancer? Have another cup of joe. A new study finds coffee guzzlers are less likely to develop the most common type of the disease. The study of more than 100,000 adults found that those who drank three or more cups of coffee a day had a 20 percent lower risk of [...]

Need an Energy Boost? Skip the Coffee, Take a Nap — Health Check

Shauna Wright — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:33:04 +0000

If you find yourself dragging in the middle of the day, don’t reach for the coffee pot — reach for a pillow instead. Experts say naps may be a good way to make up for the sleep deficit many of us have from not getting enough shut-eye at night.

Starbucks Scared Into Dropping $1.50 Bean Fee After a Massachusetts Fine

Kathy Landin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:57:15 +0000

Starbucks discontinued its $1.50 surcharge for bags of beans weighing less than a pound nationwide, after the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation fined them for it. The state consumer group discovered in August that the coffee chain wasn’t properly notifying customers that it was tacking on a fee of about $1.50 for [...]

Starbucks Pulls the Plug on 'Jonathan's Card' Experiment

Shauna Wright — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:16:41 +0000

Well, you knew someone would ruin it.

Jonathan’s Card, which we told you about last week, was a nifty social experiment that used a shared Starbucks card in a modern version of the “take a penny, leave a penny” tray. People could use the card to buy themselves coffee and/or contribute to the card and earn themselves a little good karma. Now, alas, it’s no more.