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Maybe this new study (via Montreal Gazette) on the increasingly sexualized appearance of female singers on the cover of Rolling Stone explains why it’s no fun listening to the radio anymore.

It’s been a good week for Vancouver’s Dale MacKay. After months of fierce competition on the inaugural season of Top Chef Canada, the 30-year-old chef took home the title of Top Chef on the July 4 season finale.

Hot food trends for 2011; Canadians think they’re healthier than they are; Taylor Swift doesn’t sell magazines; 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas; and British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died.

Sad news: Elizabeth Taylor has died. The New York Times reports that the screen icon died Wednesday morning at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles. The cause of death was apparently congestive heart failure. She was 79 years old.

It takes nine months to carry a baby, but how long does it take new mothers to recover fully from the emotional and physical trial of childbirth? Contrary to the six weeks that celebrity magazines and even some GPs and nurses seem keen on endorsing, a new UK study (via The Daily Mail) suggests it takes far longer for women to back to where they were.