Some heavily advertised products actually do you more harm than good. A recent study shows that sunscreens are totally worthless, but using them makes people complacent, so they spend more time in the sun, which can lead to skin cancer. And taking too many antacids can lead to dangerous food allergies.
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Andi Bell, of the U.K., is the 2002 world memory champion. He can memorize the order of 10 shuffled packs of playing cards?520 cards in all?in only 20 minutes. Those of us who can’t remember where we left our car keys have a lot to learn from him.
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NATO recently put up new radio towers in the Denver as a security measure for an upcoming defense ministers’ conference. Suddenly, no one?s automatic garage doors work anymore.
Eileen Kelley writes in the DenverPost.com that the Overhead Door Company of Colorado Springs received hundreds of phone calls on a single day from people who couldn’t get their garage doors to open. People with computer keypad entry systems were even locked out of their homes. Overhead Door employee Tina Oetken says, “With over 600-plus calls, it’s hard to believe that it can be anything but” NATO.
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In the Middle East, Muslim are women are killed for disobedience, becoming too ?westernized? or refusing to marry the men selected for them by their families. But it happens in the West as well. Some countries are so disturbed by this that they?re sending immigrants home who refuse to modernize.
Terri Judd writes in The Independent that a Muslim father living in the U.K. slit his daughter’s throat because he believed she had become too westernized. When Abdalla Yones found out his 16-year-old child Heshu was seeing a Christian teenager, he stabbed her 11 times, after breaking down the door to the bathroom where she was barricaded.
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