Ms. CINDY ADAMS (Gossip columnist, NBC's The Today Show): I used to lay on the floor and hand-feed them with kosher chickens from La Cirque.

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Also on that short list, it so happens, is spotting one of the aforementioned troops hand-feed an overzealous and noticeably plump squirrel who's anxiously scratching on the door to get in.

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My first big splash on the internet came in 2004 when I was one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, hand-coding my RSS feed and speaking timidly into a microphone, broadcasting intimate thoughts to a global audience.

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Sandberg: Some of the revenue is moving from the right-hand side to the news feed, as planned.

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Nikki Walker and James Hook were on hand to feed Parker and two percussive hand-offs later the Wales centre was over for the first try of the night.

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It was near impossible these days to have a conversation with a doctor, a farmer, a policeman, a teacher, even a politician and not meet that staring look, that thrust into your hand of some missive from health and safety, human resources, risk assessment or 360-degree feed-back review.

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And when scrolling down the News Feed, at least four of those items remain dynamically present in the right-hand column.

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As measured by click-through rates, Sponsored Stories in News Feed perform multiple times better on both desktop and mobile than ads in the right-hand column.

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On the one hand, she argues that nearly the only biological difference between men and women is that men can't breast-feed.

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