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For years, makers of kids' cereals have been upping the ante to get kids interested: hiding a toy surprise inside, adding multicolored marshmallows, setting bear traps in the cereal aisle. Now Post, makers of the classic Flintstones-themed Fruity Pebbles, have created "Poppin' Pebbles," an explosive Pop Rocks-Cereal mashup.

Miles: This is the only cereal on the market that fizzes and foams in your mouth. Well, this and Cinnamon Rabies Crunch.

Ian: The Flintstones weren't entirely unhealthy people. When you think about it, their car was basically like an early treadmill desk.

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Just as Janet L. Yellen was sworn in as the first woman to head the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke announced his next move on Monday.

The former fed chief, who saw the country through a recovery from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, will join Brookings' Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy.

The Washington-based think tank says in a press release:

"In the past few years, Mr. Bernanke has been presiding over an historic experiment in monetary policy — more than five years of zero interest rates (so far) and trillions of dollars in bond-buying, a controversial approach aimed at restoring growth to the American economy.

"Ben Bernanke won't have to sit through any more meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee or deliver the Fed's semi-annual testimony to an occasionally hostile Congress or listen to complaints from emerging-market central bankers when central bankers gather in Basel, Switzerland. He won't have to check the computer screen to see what's been happening in Asian markets when he gets up every morning.

"He will, instead, have time to reflect on what just happened. ' I was kind of like if you're in a car wreck. You're mostly involved in trying to avoid going off the bridge. And then later on you say, "Oh, my God," ' he said here recently."

If you are buying health coverage in the Colorado ski resort towns, the Connecticut suburbs of New York City or a bunch of otherwise low-cost rural regions of Georgia, Mississippi and Nevada, you have the misfortune of living in the most expensive insurance marketplaces under the new health law.

The 10 most expensive regions also include all of Alaska and Vermont and large parts of Wisconsin and Wyoming. The ranking is based on the lowest price "silver" plan, which is the mid-level plan that the majority of consumers are choosing.

These regions, created as part of the health law, range in size from a state to a single county. While many people in these places will receive government subsidies to help pay for premiums, the portion that they pay will still be higher than they would have to foot in many other places.

The cause of the stratospheric premiums varies from region to region, although a recurring theme is that in some areas the limited number of hospitals and specialists allows them to demand high prices from insurers.

In southwestern Georgia, one hospital system dominates the area and beat back an effort by federal antitrust regulators to loosen its grip on the market. High individual insurance rates also reflect the extra costs that come when locals tend to be in poor health and where large numbers of people lack employer-sponsored insurance, leaving providers with more charity cases and lower-reimbursed Medicare patients.

A sicker population doesn't explain the most expensive region in the country: four mountain counties around Aspen and Vail. People here are generally healthy, but medical prices and the use of medical services are both high.

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In parts of the Middle East, people drink camel milk for its nutritional value. It boasts more vitamin C and iron than cow's milk and it's lower in fat.

But in Missouri, some people are starting to rub it on their skin: A Jordanian woman is bringing camel milk to the Midwest in the form of a skin care line.

The milk comes from a farm in Jordan, where seven camels produce about five liters a day. The farmer sends the milk to a biotech company in Amman called MONOJO. The scientists there analyze it, looking for three special antibodies.

Antibodies are proteins that help fight off infections, latching on to foreign pathogens and telling the body's immune system, "Intruder alert." Typically, these antibodies degrade in higher temperatures and acidic environments. But antibodies in camel milk are stronger.

"We found that those proteins are very, very stable against temperature, high temperature and against high acidity," says MONOJO founder Penelope Shihab, the woman behind the startup in Missouri.

"Maybe the reason [is] because the camel can tolerate high temperature in the desert," she says. "Some of the scientists say that, but we couldn't confirm any of those suggestions."

Shihab's research team tested these camel milk antibodies on acne. Immunologist Khaled Al-Qaoud, Shihab's research and development manager, says camel antibodies succeed where others fail because they remain intact longer at the site of inflammation, ultimately helping the body's immune system continue to fight the acne.

Al-Qaoud says the results of the study impressed them so much so that they concocted a camel milk treatment for the skin condition.

"We use skin formulas, like for example, gel or cream or serum — any type of formulation — and we put the whey of the camel that contains the antibodies in this formula," says Al-Qaoud.

The creams look similar to the ones you find at the drug store; milky white and floral scented. Shihab says she's commercializing this formula in the U.S. first because Middle Eastern consumers trust American brands.

A colleague directed her to Missouri, a small market where she could learn the ropes of the U.S. biotech industry.

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