People in the US are working longer hours and now both partners usually work full time, which means that people eat in restaurants more often than they used to. Besides making us fatter, this is also making us deaf.

Hearing specialist Robert Novak says that some restaurants are so noisy that customers’ and employees’ hearing can be affected over time. Note that this is a SCIENTIFIC assessment by Novak, not just his personal preference for quiet eating places.
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Whitley has written about how he feels about his new novel The Grays. People Magazine calls it “a great read.” It is based not only on Whitley?s own experiences, but also on the experiences of so many other witnesses whose stories we have heard over the years. But for me it’s more than any of those things: it’s a love story.

It’s the love story of Whitley and me. We don’t actually remember being brought together as children by the visitors (whoever and whatever they are) the way Dan and Katelyn are in the book, but we’ve always felt that we were somehow destined to be a couple. Whitley has vivid memories of meeting me when we were children, and the meeting place he describes could well have been my own backyard!
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Join William Henry in Nashville, Tennessee for his extraordinary conference ACTIVATING THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT on Sept. 15-17, 2006, when he presents his all new lecture and slide show. William is fresh from his March-April, 2006 tour of Egypt and he is loaded with new insights and images to share. Explore amazing treasures of Egypt in Nashville with William. The Quest For Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt exhibit is in Nashville from June 6- October 8, 2006. Here’s your chance to personally experience the most amazing collection of Egyptian artifacts outside of Egypt?with William Henry as your guide.

Itinerary:FRIDAY, Sept 15On Friday night you’ll meet at the Flying Saucer bar/restaurant beside Nashville’s Union Station Hotel at 7 pm for an informal get together.read more

Man-made global warming leads to higher ocean surface temperatures, which creates more?and stronger?hurricanes?as well as other so-called “natural” disasters, such as forest fires, droughts and floods.

BBC News reports that climatologists say that global warming will increase the risk of forest fires, droughts and floods over the next 200 years, even if we cut greenhouse gas emissions right now.

Hurricanes are getting stronger AND more frequent: global warming warms up the surface of the ocean, feeding these storms, which then cause devastation when they move inland. But is the warmer ocean surface temperature a result of natural changes or greenhouse gases?or both?
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