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We all know that we should wash our hands often, and here’s a new reason WHY.

Don’t you wish everyone washed their hands after going to the bathroom? (YOU do, don’t you?) BBC News found that more than one in four subway and bus commuters has bacteria from feces on their hands. Researchers discovered this when they swabbed over 400 people at bus and train stations in five major cities in England and Wales. For some reason, people who rode the bus had higher rates of hand contamination than subway riders. Surprisingly, manual workers had cleaner hands than students, retired people or the unemployed (or maybe it’s not surprising?these people have to wash their hands frequently).
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When you talk to people who are against immigration, do you ever hear this? “My great, great grandparents came to America and quickly learned English to survive. Why can’t today?s immigrants do the same?” It turns out this isn’t true.

Researcher Joseph Salmons, who has studied European immigrant languages in the Midwest, discovered that little research had been done about how quickly past immigrants learned their adopted country?s language.
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New research finds that a national campaign’s anti-drug TV ads failed to convince young children and teenagers to stay away from marijuana and actually might have ENCOURAGED some of them to try smoking pot.

Researcher Robert Hornik says that the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign?s TV ads from 1999 to 2004 “either had no effects on kids or possibly had a boomerang effect.” The US Congress created the anti-drug campaign in the late 1990s and gave almost $1 billion to it through 2004. The taxpayer-funded campaign continues to create anti-drug advertising today.
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Every January, Dreamland?­s resident prophet John Hogue comes on the show and prophesies for the new year, and every July??usually??we have him back on and hold his feet to the fire. This year we waited, because so many of his prophecies appeared to be coming true??and, indeed, it was worth the wait. So get set for one incredible, totally amazing Dreamland as we listen to his ACTUAL WORDS as recorded last January, and then to the way events have unfolded since. As for the future, he CALLS THE MARKET BOTTOM! Then Linda Howe has an update with Trends Journal prognosticator Gerald Celente, who NAILED the present economic catastrophe on Dreamland last year.
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