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  • Actress Zoe Saldana may have bared it all on the new cover of Allure magazine, but it's the headline emblazoned on the magazine's cover announcing the actress' weight that is causing a controversy, and now leading to a backlash among readers, who are questioning the editors' decision.

    The headline next to the "Avatar" beauty reads: "Zoe Saldana: 115 Pounds of Grit and Heartache." While some say it was meant to be positive, many women are now questioning whether a magazine would ever publish a man's weight.

    "This is absolutely ridiculous," Ericka Souter, editor at TheStir.com, told ABC News. "I don't know what they were thinking. It must have been just for the shock value, because stars never reveal their weight."

    Late Wednesday, the controversy rocketed across the Internet. One person tweeted "Zoe Saldana's weight revealed on Allure cover. For every step forward, mags take 3 back!" Another posting on a message board read "I don't think putting the weight on a magazine cover

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  • In the constant battle of the bulge, pizza would seem to be off-limits. But one British professor of nutrition is aiming to change that with a pizza designed to provide all essential nutrients.

    Dr. Mike Lean, professor of nutrition at the University of Glasgow and working physician, designed the Eat Balanced brand pizzas to offer the correct balance of all the nutrients recommended through the day. According to Lean in theory three pizzas a day would give the exact daily recommended amounts of vitamins and minerals based on United Kingdom guidelines.

    Lean was inspired to make the pizzas after even he had difficulty putting together meals that had the right mix of vitamins and nutrients.

    "We want to make nutritionally balanced meals, we want to eat balanced," said Lean. "[But] It's jolly difficult."

    To get the right nutrients in the right amount, Lean worked with the Eat Balanced founder Donnie Maclean and others to figure out how to get the recommended nutrients

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  • Ricardo Cerezo, of Geneva, Ill., got an extremely sweet surprise after looking in his cookie jar recently.

    "I can't believe I had $4.85 million in a cookie jar for over three months," Cerezo told the Geneva Patch, after rediscovering several old Lottery tickets he had kept in the jar for safe keeping.

    Over time, Cerezo had accumulated 11 Lotto tickets that he saved in the cookie jar for a rainy day. But at his wife's suggestion, he eventually took them to be checked for possible winnings, which proved to be excellent advice.

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    Cerezo, 44, owned the winning ticket from the Feb. 2 Lotto drawing, which he hadn't bothered to check until May. And on May 15, at the Aurora, Ill., 7-Eleven where he originally purchased the winning ticket, Cerezo received a check from the Illinois Lottery officials for $4.85 million.

    "I'm awestruck, this is unbelievable," he said.

    When Cerezo had taken the tickets to be checked, the first

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  • Oscar-winning actress Mo'Nique has gotten serious about her health, dropping 80 pounds and documenting her weight loss journey on Twitter.

    The 45-year-old "Precious" actress has been posting snapshots from her grueling workouts, along with motivational messages to her thousands of followers, almost daily on Twitter.

    "Take that fighting spirit inside of you and knock out that quitting spirit. Fight for your life. NO PAIN NO GAIN. :-)," she wrote today.

    "I tweet every morning," she said in an interview earlier this week with New York radio station Hot 97. "Because I want women to see - especially us big women - that you don't have to let them cut you and suck it out. You don't have to let them staple you up. You don't have to let them give you a pill. You don't have to let them put a band around your organs."

    The best supporting actress winner once tipped the scale at 300. She told the radio station her most recent weigh-in showed 218. Her goal is

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  • During a three-hour keynote at its Google I/O conference, Google didn't talk at all about Glass, its glasses that overlay digital information in the physical world.

    However, the company did talk about some features that we have now learned will be coming to the digital glasses.

    At the event, Google announced a number of changes coming to its Google Plus social network and a new messaging app called Hangouts. When asked how Google was planning to integrate more social functionality into Glass, Google's senior vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, told ABC News, "Hangouts is the answer. Our focus is on face-to-face to face communications. The Hangout app we just showed is going to be available for Glass."

    SLIDESHOW: Photos from Google's Big I/O Conference

    Gundotra and Vice President of Engineering for Google Plus David Besbris said their team was working on the Glass app now. When asked by ABC

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  • Fecal Germs in Public Pools: Should You Worry?

    A new study, which found genetic fragments from the fecal germ E. coli in 58 percent of public pools, might have you thinking twice about taking a dip this summer.

    But experts say there's no cause for alarm.

    "The study did not test for living bacteria," said ABC News' chief health and medical editor Dr. Richard Besser. "It's possible and likely that many of these germs were dead. That's why we put disinfectants in swimming pools in the first place. Our bodies are covered with bacteria, some harmful and some not."

    Protecting Yourself From Community Pool Health Hazards

    For the study, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention performed genetic testing on samples scraped from the filters of 161 Atlanta-area public pools. Ninety-three of the samples came back positive for E. coli genetic fragments, which could have come from living germs or germs killed off by chlorine and other disinfecting

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  • Miley Cyrus: Her Engagement Ring Is On Again!

    A few weeks ago, Miley Cyrus blasted rumors that her relationship with Liam Hemsworth was on the rocks-and now, she's taking things one step further: She's wearing her engagement ring again.

    On Wednesday night, the 20-year-old singer walked the red carpet at Maxim's 2013 Hot 100 party at Create Nightclub in Hollywood wearing a Valentino jumpsuit and her Neil Lane sparkler. (Cyrus graces the magazine's cover.)

    Last year, Cyrus and Hemsworth, 23, announced their engagement, but things haven't been smooth sailing since then. Amid rumors of a split in March, Hemsworth spent time with his family in Australia without Cyrus, and last month, Cyrus's father, Billy Ray Cyrus, told ABC News that he wasn't sure if the couple would make it down the aisle.

    "I'm not home with my boyfriend all the time," the "Can't Be Tamed" singer explained to V Magazine in its May issue. "We work. Every week it's 'Are they broken up? Because we don't see a

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  • Lindsay Vonn Aboard Boat With Tiger Woods and Kids

    Maybe they're getting serious?

    Just days after Tiger Woods and Lindsay Vonn made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala in New York City, they were spotted relaxing on the golfer's yacht in Florida on Tuesday-with his kids!

    The happy couple looked relaxed as they took photos and fished off the back of the boat with Woods's children (not pictured here) from his marriage to Elin Nordegren, daughter Sam, 6, and son Charlie, 4.

    Woods and Vonn announced they were dating in March, and a month later, she cheered him on at the Masters.

    "Not only are they a couple, but they are a very sweet and loving couple," said Michael Strahan, who spent time with Vonn and Woods at the Met Gala. "Really, a lovely couple."

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  • Keith Urban: I Want To Stay On 'Idol'

    There have been a lot of shake-ups at "American Idol" lately, but Keith Urban doesn't want any part of it.

    "I would [love to return]," the judge told People magazine on Wednesday. "I mean, I literally enjoy coming to work every day and that's a rarity."

    These days, question is, who will his colleagues be? Last week, Randy Jackson announced that this season will be his last and Nicki Minaj's time on the show may be winding down as well. But, as season 12 comes to a close, Urban, 45, had nothing but nice things to say about his time on the panel.

    "I joined an ensemble like this in the same way I joined a band," he said. "I like being in a team and I felt that immediately, with [host Ryan Seacrest] and Randy, particularly."

    Tonight will be the last time this particular panel will be together, as they prepare to crown either Kree Harrison or Candice Glover the winner.

    "It's funny, I think everybody is judging," said Urban, who will perform "A Little Bit of

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  • A police officer in Oregon pursuing a speeding driver was stopped in his tracks by a mother duck and her ducklings.

    The officer, Mark James, with the Portland Police Department, caught a vehicle going 52 mph in a 35 mph zone.

    Dashcam video on Officer James' police cruiser shows him pulling around the corner to go after the traffic violator. After a short ride down the road on a rainy day, however, a mother duck and her two ducklings thwarted his plans by walking right into the path of his cruiser.

    Instead of driving around the ducks to keep after the speeding driver, Officer James stopped his car, walked out in the rain and followed behind the ducks until he was sure they had made it safely to the side of the road and away from traffic.

    "The duck family was safely escorted to water in a ditch and swam away," the police department states in a video of the incident posted to YouTube.

    Officer James, who could not be reached today by ABCNews.com, can be seen giving a shoulder shrug as he

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