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Even if you take a placebo, instead of real medicine, you will improve your health and live longer. How can that be?

Robert Roy Britt reports in LiveScience.com that a new study of almost 50,000 people has shown that it’s not just positive thinking that makes a dummy pill (placebo) work. It’s the fact that when you take ANY medicine, you begin paying more attention to your health and start making the changes necessary to live a healthier life. This may be one reason why vitamins seem to make people healthier, despite the fact the most physicians think that taking vitamins doesn’t make any difference in your overall health.

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We may all look in the same direction, but we often see very different things, depending upon our expectations. The question is: How can we learn to see the truth?

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On July 4th, most of us are going to watch fireworks. The Chinese invented fireworks sometime between 200 BC and 900 AD. The US has been using fireworks to celebrate Independence Day since 1777, before we even knew if we would survive as an independent country. But few of us know what’s actually in them.
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You won’t find this in the US press, but the British Independent newspaper has revealed the existence of a new government report, to be released to government agencies on Wednesday, that urges the US to begin getting ready to invade Cuba and create a democracy there. This could be done once Castro is gone, or we might start taking steps to depose him.
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