We all know that exercise is important, but swimming in a chemically-treated pool may lead to asthma and even bladder cancer. This could be serious, since there are over 400 million swimmers in these pools in the US every year, and negative outcomes can occur when disinfection byproducts form reactions with organic matter in pool water.
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If he (or she) acts like an ape, it’s because he’s at the top of the pecking order (and if you want to keep your job, you’ll "groom" him).

When a subordinate chimpanzee grooms a dominant one, it often does so for a long time and doesn’t wait to be "asked." When it in turn requests to be groomed, it receives only a perfunctory grooming, after having to ask a second time.
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Are museums starting to take UFOs seriously? The National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas has opened an exhibit titled "Area 51: Myth or Reality," which contains what they claim is an "authentic alien artifact" from a 1986 UFO crash in Russia.

A description of the debris reads: "Three Soviet academic centers and 11 research institutes analyzed the objects from this UFO crash. The distance between atoms is different from ordinary iron. Radar cannot be reflected from the material."
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