Coffee mugs without handles

Has anyone seen the coffee mugs they sell at starbucks? The don't have handles...must be the recession.

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Go ahead: That cup of joe won't hurt you, the latest research says. It might even help you.
Judy Foreman, Health Sense
May 18, 2009
Coffee drinkers, rejoice! The heavenly brew, once deemed harmful to health, is turning out to be, if not quite a health food, at least a low-risk drink, and in many ways a beneficial one. It could protect against diabetes, liver cancer, cirrhosis and Parkinson's disease.

What happened? Lots of new research, and the recognition that older, negative studies often failed to tease apart the effects of coffee and those of smoking because so many coffee drinkers were also smokers.

"Coffee was seen as very unhealthy," said Rob van Dam, a coffee researcher and epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health. "Now we have a more balanced view. We're not telling people to drink it for health. But it is a good beverage choice."

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Web site sparks random acts of kindness in NH

(NECN: Lauren Collins, Hampstead, NH) - Josee Archer greets visitors to Bean Towne Coffee House with a huge smile, "We just said that the next person that walks in is going to get a good deed. And that's you!"

Smiles these days are just as strong as the brew at Bean Towne Coffee House in Hampstead, New Hampshire. It's where you'll frequently find Archer and her challenge to the community. As she says, "we're doing a thousand good deeds in thirty days."

The Sandown mother of two launched the website UmadeMyDay.com last October as a way to encourage others to commit random acts of kindness. Now's she's teamed up with coffee house owner Ed Goyette for Good Deed Friday - everyone who takes part gets a free cup of coffee.

Goyette says the partnership makes sense because "it was so in line with what we do here at Bean Towne every day, trying to make people's day a little bit better."



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