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Like a drug to men – Men: Women love them, but they don’t surprise them and here’s more news that won’t come as a surprise to any thinking female: Just looking at their curves gives a guy a “high” that scientists equate with drinking alcohol or taking drugs!

This is probably the reason that men are so much more interested in pornography than women are. But it’s curves that count, not overall body fat. In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi quotes researcher Steven Platek as saying,”The media portrays women as wholly too skinny.”
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As more people wise up and stop smoking, there is less call for heavily-subsidized tobacco plants, so researchers are looking for new ways to use this plant. Besides biofuel, they may make natural spray-on solar panels.
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The British Ministry of Defense has issued a policy memo stating that all newUFO reports it receives will be destroyed after 30 days. Thedestruction of UFO reports is nothing new. After aninvestigation was initiated by a congressman into theRoswell Incident, the General Accounting Office found thatall trace of any records from the Roswell Army Air Fieldbetween 1947 and 1952 had been mysteriously destroyed.
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Researchers are so excited about the placebo effect that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) has started a special study of it. One of their discoveries is that, although it all takes place inside our brains, for some unknown reason it seems to be working BETTER than it used to. This is a subject that Anne Strieber discusses with Mark Waldman in this week’s Dreamland.

From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after clinical trials where they were first tested against placebo rose by 20%, meaning that the placebos were working better. Half of all potential new drugs fail in late stage trials due to their inability to beat sugar pills.
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