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A CI suspension or a dried up sandwich?

Florida wackiness continues. A Hollywood Florida woman sold a half eaten grilled cheese sandwich for $28,000, which happens to be the base price for a CI suspension. The woman believes she sees an image of the Virgin Mary in the toasted bread. The woman put the item up for auction on eBay. The lucky buyer was GoldenPalace.com an online gambling casino. The new owners said they were willing to spend "as much as it took" to buy the ten year old sandwich. Not trusting the mails, they recently flew to South Florida to take possession of the well aged snack.

FLORIDA TODAY

LOW CARB SPUDS

The low-carb potato has arrived. Developed by a Dutch seed company, the smooth yellow tuber has 30% fewer carbohydrates and 25% fewer calories than the aver-age Russet Burbank. It's also moister and better tasting, says Chad Hutchinson, a potato expert and assistant professor of horticultural science at the University of Florida. Each year Hutchinson tests some 400 new varieties of spud for Florida farmers but finds, he says, "only a few we get really excited about This creamy variety, named SunLite, "has risen to the top:' says Hutchinson. SunFresh, a Florida growers cooperative, will market the lower-carb potato as a gourmet product and hopes to have it in stores by January.

LIPOSUCTION

Carrying too much weight particularly around the belly increases your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Shedding the extra pounds will make you healthier - if you shed them the right way. Liposuction, a quick and increasingly popular way to lose weight, may not necessarily do the trick. Researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine described the plight of 15 obese women, each of whom had about 20 lbs. of abdominal fat surgically removed. Three months later, none of the women showed any improvement in insulin sensitivity, cholesterol level, blood pressure or other risk factors for heart disease.