In black and white noir films from the ?40s, every day seems gray and rainy. It turns out cities make their own weather and yes, it does rain more often in major cities.
NASA researchers used their Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) to study “urban heat-islands” and see if they create more summer rain than normal over major cities. The cities they studied included Atlanta, Dallas, San Antonio and Nashville.
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Until recently, the U.S. thought al-Qaeda was too unsophisticated to attack in cyberspace and figured they would continue trying to attack us with airplanes and dirty bombs. Now they?re changing their minds.
The FBI and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been investigating a suspicious pattern of surveillance of computers that occurred in Silicon Valley last fall.The U.S. Defense Department found “multiple casings of sites” not only in California, but across the U.S.
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Gals: If you decide to go for hormone replacement therapy (HRT), the patch is better than the pill when it comes to your sex life. “HRT, when administered via a patch, allows a woman’s body to better utilize the androgens she already has, resulting in improved libido,” says researcher Subir Roy.
Many post-menopausal women report their interest in sex drops, as their testosterone levels decrease. HRT replaces some of the dwindling estrogen and progesterone, to combat hot flashes and the other physical side-effects of the menopause.
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There?s lots of circumstantial evidence that pets in the home can cause allergies and asthma, but scientists aren?t sure exactly how it works. For instance, a recent study in Finland found that the risk of developing asthma was higher among people who had previously owned pets. But there are also studies suggesting that living with pets can actually protect children from allergies and asthma. “It’s certainly too early to make a firm statement as to what parents should do,” says Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills of the University of Virginia.
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