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According to a major geologist, if you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by one of the biggrest myths about geology.

Eric Cheney says, “The most common question I get is, ‘When are we going to run out of oil?’ The correct response is, ‘Never.’ It might be a heck of a lot more expensive than it is now, but there will always be some oil available at a price, perhaps $10 to $100 a gallon.”
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A year ago, we posted an article about why Asians get so old and wise (their secret? Green tea!) Now we?ve discovered the secret that keeps so many Italians going strong in old age?

Researchers have discovered that drinking more than three glasses of red wine a week significantly reduces the risk of colon cancer. Dr. Joseph C. Anderson compared the drinking habits of 360 red and white wine drinkers with similar lifestyles and found that red wine dramatically reduced the risk of colon cancer by 68%, but white wine did not.
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We recently reported that a pair of eyes posted above a coffee machine kept everybody honest. Now it turns out that store design can help prevent shop lifting, which in 2004 totaled an estimated $10 billion in losses.
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Two years ago, we reported that an 7.9 earthquake in Alaska in 2002 set off 200 smaller earthquakes 2,000 miles away in Yellowstone National Park that changed the schedule of some of Yellowstone’s geysers. Now another swarm of quakes is rattling Yellowstone. A quake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale has just struck off the coast of Sicily, but there are no reports of damage from either quake yet.

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