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According to a new study, creative genius and criminality express themselves when men are in their 30s, but both are turned off when a man gets married and has children. Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa says, “Scientists rather quickly desist (from their careers) after their marriage, while unmarried scientists continue to make great scientific contributions later in their lives.”

Criminal behavior peaks around the same time. Juvenile delinquents are overwhelmingly male, and start on the road to crime in their teens. But those with good marriages usually go straight, while unmarried criminals continue their crime careers.
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But Not the Way You Think – Pollution in New York City is affecting trees?it’s making them grow bigger than the same kind of trees growing in the country. Ecologist Jillian Gregg says, “City-grown pollution, and ozone in particular, is tougher on country trees.”

Ground-level ozone is created by the action of sunlight on pollutants created in cities. However, in the city, other chemicals, such as nitric acid from cars, react with the ozone and cause the levels to drop to almost zero at night and in the winter. But this doesn’t happen to pollution that’s blown into rural areas.
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The annual summer wildfires are harmful both to our weather and to our health. Judd Slivka writes in The Arizona Republic that U.S. forests have been considered as possible targets by al-Qaeda terrorists. An al-Qaeda prisoner told the FBI he’d developed a plan to set midsummer forest fires in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. An FBI memo says, “The detainee believed that significant damage to the U.S. economy would result and once it was realized that the fires were terrorist acts, U.S. citizens would put pressure on the U.S. government to change its policies.”
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The reality of the president’s visit to Africa is very different from what is appearing in the American press, now openly controlled by tacit agreement between the big corporations that own it and the government. This letter is from an ordinary Senegalese, who witnessed the president’s visit personally, and reports on what actually happened in his country.

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