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From the page: "Follow me on Twitter" is a phrase journalists and historians will make reference to when examining the later years of the ought decade.

The question, of course, is who to follow and why. Some people follow anyone and everyone who follows them, others pick and choose who they'll follow and some collect followers with no serious interest in following anyone else.

Early this week I published my 650th tweet. I think that provides a body of work on which you can evaluate whether you want to follow me (@Machione) or not. That is, if evaluation is part of your criteria for following.

These highlights, I think, best reflect my activity on Twitter.

more adventures with renrutia

powerful pictures.

From the page: "Long after the painful stomach cramps and bloody diarrhea associated with tainted food are over, many people suffer long-term health effects, mostly unrecognized, that are the result of food-borne pathogens. These lingering effects -- premature death, paralysis, kidney failure and a lifetime of seizures or mental disability -- may cause more disability, lost productivity, doctor visits and hospitalizations than the acute illnesses that follow exposure to a food-borne toxin.

A pair of reports released this week by the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention shed some light on this issue. They also point out that such pathogens hit hardest among the youngest patients. "