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The more you spend – During an economic downturn, staying within a budget at the grocery store may be more important than ever for many shoppers, especially those with low incomes. But a new study shows that the harder shoppers try to figure out how much they’re spending, the WORSE they do. Is this some kind of conspiracy?

Marketing expert Koert van Ittersum says, “When shopping in a grocery store, the chaotic, information-rich environment can tax a shopper’s ability to mentally calculate the total basket price. Executing many arithmetic operations with multi-digit pricing is demanding. Our findings show that shoppers tend to be more accurate when they employ short-cut strategies in their calculations.”
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What’s it REALLY all about? – As the face of terrorism changes, one reporter is asking a provocative question: “Who would benefit politically from a major terrorist incident on American soil, ready, willing and able to step into the breach and exploit the catastrophic loss of human life that would follow in its wake?” His answer: the world’s covert agencies, including MI-6 and the CIA. This is reminiscent of charges that the war in Iraq was waged partly (or mainly) to benefit big businesses such as the oil companies and Halliburton. Future wars will not be the same as wars of the past. (They may not even involve human beings).
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But how and who owns it? – If December 21st, 2012, really does bring ominous news, or an asteroid wipes out most of the life on Earth, the human race won’t end if we’ve stored away some DNA. But it would be stored on computers and no one knows how long computer hard drives could last.
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Not with the Earth, but with EACH OTHER – X marks the spot: Asteroid impacts have wreaked havoc on this planet in the distant past (as well as probably bringing life here in the first place), but now that we have modern space telescopes, we can see two asteroids colliding with EACH OTHER. Should this worry us?

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never been seen before.
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