Unknowncountry.com has run numerous stories on the continuing threat from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant near Tokyo. The most recent was about Senator Ron Wyden’s visit to the plant, after which he said that the situation was much worse than the Japanese were saying, and gave as his primary reason the fact that the failure of spent fuel pools on the site is inevitable should there be another even fairly minor earthquake in this earthquake prone area.read more

Think you’re arguing over money? Nope, you’re fighting because you ate too much fatty food for supper.

Today’s busy families often rely on fast food and take-out to keep everyone fed and on schedule. Researchers suspect that those types of food, which are often high in saturated fat, impact the body’s reaction to stress, leading to bouts of marital discord.
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