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Recently, some scientists have been claiming that the Gulf Stream is more stable than thought, but there is now additional evidence that it is weakening. The Gulf Stream’sflow turned south in early May, and continued moving southward through May 15. By May 22, it was beginning to show signs of recovery, however what had been one of the hottest springs on record in the British Isles has been transformed into a cold and wet beginning ofJune. Is this simply normal for the area, or did the changein the stream’s flow cause it?read more

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Passengers on two flights, one from Atlanta to Paris and the other from Prague to Montreal are being urged by the Centers for Disease Control to undergo testing for an “extensively drug-resistant TB, and the passenger diagnosed with the disease has been quarantined. The last time the CDC took such an action was in 1963, when an individual suffering from smallpox was quarantined.
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Some people are luckier than others. Some people rely on lucky charms. One extremely lucky man in the UK told a judge he did not get rich from embezzling?he got his money because he won the lottery 80 times.

In the Independent, Graham Keeley reports that a judge became suspicious about Juan Antonio Roca when the police discovered regular deposits of large amounts of money into his bank account that could not be accounted for by his salary. He was charged with embezzlement, but pleaded not guilty. Keely quotes him as saying, “In the past 15 years, I’ve won about 50 prizes in lotteries. And throughout my whole life I have won about 80 major prizes.”

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Your fingers can tell a lot about you. Now it’s been discovered that the lengths of children’s index and ring fingers can predict how well they will perform on SAT tests.

LiveScience.com reports that kids who have longer ring fingers than index fingers are likely to get higher test scores in the math sections of the test. Kids with the reverse?longer index than ring fingers?are likely to get the highest scores in the verbal parts of the test.

Psychologist Mark Brosnan says that this is because the different levels of the hormones testosterone and estrogen in the womb cause the different finger lengths, and testosterone causes a fetus to have a longer ring finger. Males?and females with higher testosterone levels?tend to do better in math.
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