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Posted on: Wednesday, March 5, 2003

THE LEFT LANE
Factoring your flab

Advertiser Staff and News Services

More guilt through technology? As the old Ab Roller gathers dust under your bed, you can go online for nutritional information. (Our favorite Web site: Chowbaby.com, with a Fast Food Finder listing calorie and fat counts for many chains, including the soon-to-arrive Krispy Kreme.) That way, we know our Starbucks' venti caramel macchiato (11 grams of fat, 313 calories) has put us way over our daily intake, especially if we were eyeing a yeasty, glazed Krispy Kreme, hot off the assembly line (just 200 calories).

To alleviate the guilt, hop on www.caloriesperhour.com to calculate that it may take you more than an hour and a half of hula to work off that coffee and doughnut. The site also lists calories per hour for accordion playing to trampoline jumping and every activity you can think of in between — including sex. As if you need anything else to feel guilty about.

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Mugs for homeless

Talk about Muggles! Harry Potter's gravity-bound friends would be proud of the magic that took place recently at Mililani Town Centre.

Central O'ahu Girl Scouts from Troop 582 had been at the Institute for Human Service, helping a Baptist church feed the homeless, when they noticed that a lot of the coffee mugs were chipped and dangerous. The 9- and 10-year-olds decided to do a mug drive, and on Feb. 23 collected nearly 300, said mom Debbie Watanabe.

Many were left at the center and others were collected by other troops around town. They'll be delivered to the homeless shelter on March 12, for a fresh batch of brew. But not witch's, of course.

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