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Sometimes it’s road rage. In one case it was a customer at a fast food restaurant throwing a burger at a cashier when he discovered they’d forgotten to add the pickles. What triggers the proverbial "straw that breaks the camel’s back?"

Why do adults throw tantrums over small provocations? Shouldn’t we have learned from childhood that indulging in a fit of yelling, whether at a customer-service rep or a spouse, never helps? In fact, sometimes these actions hurt OURSELVES, since they alienate the people who are supposed to help us.
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A process that began 50 million years ago– the slow motion breakup of the Indo-Australian tectonic plate into two pieces–isn’t over yet. In fact, they think it caused the two massive April 11 earthquakes beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

The first quake was a magnitude 8.7, 20 times more powerful than California’s long anticipated "big one." It tore a complex network of faults deep in the ocean floor. The violence triggered unusually large aftershocks thousands of miles away, off the US West Coast.
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Quitting smoking makes you healthier AND it makes you nicer. And it turns out that while blacks have a harder time quitting, there is no difference in the quitting ability between the sexes.

Once you DO quit, you’ll not only SMELL nicer, you’ll BE nicer. Researchers have found evidence that shows those who quit smoking show improvements in their overall personality. And who would WANT to smoke, anyway, with all those nasty ingredients in cigarettes?
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