Large boxes of powdered Caesium 137, a powerfully radioactive substance that can be used to make dirty bombs, have been lost in the former Soviet Union. Unlike the solid Strontium-90 used in nuclear power plants that has been misplaced in Russia in the recent past, the Caesium was powdered, so it would be easy to pack into a dirty bomb.
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President Assad of Syria says his country?s intelligence operatives, who are notorious for using torture to get information, are secretly cooperating with American agents in the fight against al-Qaeda. He?s miffed because Syria, which has been our enemy for many years now, is not getting any credit for their efforts. He?s threatening to disclose details of the joint Syrian-U.S. program if we don?t acknowledge it and says that Syria tipped us off three months ago to a al-Qaeda plan that would have killed ?many American soldiers.?
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Viewers are constantly complaining about too much sex and violence on television (even though these shows have the highest ratings). Lots of sex and violence attracts viewers aged 18 to 34, which are the ones advertisers want to reach most.
But it turns out sex doesn?t sell?and neither does violence. Sex and violence-filled TV shows put viewers in the wrong mood to get interested in ads for laundry detergent, according to psychologist Brad Bushman of Iowa State University.
Bushman led a study that revealed that people who watch those types of shows remember less about the products being advertised than people who watch other kinds of programs. Sexual content actually seems to distract viewers from the products being advertised, Bushman says.
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An old gospel lyric goes like this: ?God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water?the fire next time.? These days, it seems as if that time has come.
Firefighters say they?ll have to fight the wildfire in Colorado for the rest of the summer. Now Arizona is burning as well. “This is a monster,” says U.S. Forest Service fire information officer said Jim Paxon.
“We’re at the mercy of Mother Nature right now,? says fire commander Larry Humphrey. ?There’s not a whole lot we can do with it.”
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