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On Sept. 30, we wrote that “Blondes are Dying Out,”click here. Now it’s been discovered that people with red hair feel more pain, and also need 20% more anesthesia during operations. Doctors think it?s because the genes that cause red hair also help manage pain.

This is especially important when redheads have surgery. Dr. Edwin Liem studied the effects of inhaled anesthesia on women aged 19 to 40. He watched for unconscious arm or leg movements in response to electric shocks and found that women with red hair needed more of the drug to stop these reflex movements compared to those with dark or blond hair. “In a nutshell, redheads are likely to experience more pain from a given stimulus and therefore require more anesthesia to alleviate that pain,” he says.
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Large amounts of soot particles and other pollutants are causing changes in rainfall and temperatures in China. This may be the reason Asia has had so floods and droughts recently. Scientists think soot may be a major cause of global warming, which shifts the responsibility for controlling climate change to developing nations such as China and India, and away from industrialized nations like the U.S., which are usually blamed for it. Soot particles are removed naturally from the atmosphere by rain in weeks or months, while carbon dioxide lingers for hundreds of years, so in the short term, it might be more effective to control soot than CO2 emissions.
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In September, a tiny robot was sent up a narrow shaft of the Great Pyramid in Giza to drill a hole in an ancient door and peek through to see what was inside the hidden room behind it. And it found?another door! So the process has to begin all over again. Art historians think there may be a symbolic reason for this strange design.
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Continuing what seems to be a gradual leak of formerly secret UFO information by Russia (See Sept. 18 news “Will Russians Reveal Data on UFOs?”, click here, Pravda reports on a case of underwater lights seen in 1908 from a Russian ship: “Suddenly, an unusual green-white light broke out under the stern, which soon occupied most of the water’s surface. This luminous surface had an oval shape and moved for some time together with the ship, then gradually separated from it and flew ahead of it. It moved away fast and shone as a strip.”
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