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iWant: Sonogram Cookies
By Susan Pagani, San Antonio Current
The makers of giant fortune cookies bring you their next great development: cookies that bear the image of your unborn child. Sonogram images are transferred onto an edible paper made of cornstarch and sugar, which is then affixed to the reportedly delicious cookies. And though one would expect it to be an ingredient, irony is conspicuously absent. Available in packs of 12. -- Nick Rose
http://www.sacurrent.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16468690

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Kill Your Television -- Today: An interview with author George Saunders
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