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Since Ash Wednesday, J. Wilson of Iowa has consumed only water and beer — a specially brewed, high-calorie Doppelbock. German monks practiced a similar fast centuries ago known as a liquid bread diet. Wilson has finished two kegs so far — and lost 15 pounds. He said his aim is not to get drunk during his beer fast, but added, "If you walk in the rain, you get wet."

It's time to start worrying about what to wear to the prom, and website Fashism.com may have solved one source of teenage anxiety. It's offering a dibs system for prom dresses. A teenager can lay claim to her perfect gown on the site, which links to users' Facebook accounts. One of its founders told the Boston Herald she was inspired by personal experience. She was "absolutely mortified" at her own prom, when another girl wore the same dress.

Addiction is the problem of our time, according to Dr. Drew Pinsky. It's certainly been big business for him. He's built a TV empire around shows such as VH1's Celebrity Rehab and Sober House. He's starting a new series tonight on HLN (the network once known as CNN Headline News). Also tonight, A&E debuts Relapse, a spin off from one of its popular addiction series, Intervention.

Google is getting a new CEO: Larry Page — who who co-founded Google as a young Stanford postgraduate and was briefly CEO before handing the position to the more experienced manager, Eric Schmidt — is now taking the reins. Although Page has remained a key decision-maker, he is taking the lead of a company that is very different from the one he helped found 13 years ago.

Page once said: "Google is not a conventional company, and we do not intend to become one." But it's now a public company with more than 20,000 employees, making tens of billions of dollars.

Suicide is a difficult topic to discuss. That’s exactly why KUNC commentator Dr. Marc Ringel is talking about it.

In 35 years of family practice only two of my active patients committed suicide:  a young man in his thirties who’d suffered brain damage in a motorcycle wreck and lost his health, job, family and self-respect; and a woman in her forties who had a severe personality disorder and endless complications, some real and some imagined, of a major surgery.