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Carb-Barb Redux

1. On the Carb Side

Now that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apologized to the widow of diet guru Robert Atkins, you probably thought you had read the last about that brouhaha.

Not quite.

Yes, we were amused by Mayor Bloomberg's version of the Atkins diet -- namely, take a bite of the food served at a Dr. Atkins party, then spit it out into your napkin when no one's watching.

But we were more amused to see this crack example of content-targeted advertising on the CNN.com Web site. (Thank you, Joan Griffin, for pointing this out.)

After all, what better endorsement of Dr. Atkins' low-carb diet could there be than the New York City mayor's suspicions, rehashed in the story, that the doctor's dietary practices led to his death? ...