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Movies Lead to Bad Behavior
November 11, 2005Newswise - Children two to six years old are four times as likely to try to smoke later on if they have watched movies and DVDs in which the actors smoked. They are five times as likely to try drinking... continued
Portion Size Makes Us Fat
November 11, 2005Newswise - At unknowncountry.com, we know what it's like to get fat, but we're here to HELP you, by posting a new chapter of Anne Strieber's diet book on this website every Monday. What makes people overeat? Researchers discovered that... continued
Iraq Thefts?Were Valuables Ever Recovered?
November 10, 2005When we invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, there were news reports about the looting of over ten thousand valuable artefacts from the National Museum, and it was rumored that looters even had lists of things to steal, given to... continued
How Australia Prevented Terror Attack
November 10, 2005LA recently foiled terrorists by reading their emails. Now Australia reports that they have also been able to arrest a group of terrorists before they could act. Kathy Marks reports in the Independent that hundreds of Australian police have staged... continued
Why Do We Need to Sleep?
November 10, 2005Newswise - One of the biggest complaints that doctors hear is insomnia. A recent poll by the National Science Foundation found that only 50% of Americans get a good night's sleep a few nights each week. Why do we need... continued
The Real Truth About China
November 9, 2005China has become a big capitalistic success and is one of our largest trading partners, supplying all the vast discount outlets in the US, such as Wal-Mart, with most of their goods. But there are more important things in life... continued
Pollution Drives People to Suicide
November 9, 2005Newswise - A psychiatrist's study of the suicide rate in a North Carolina county has revealed that it may be linked to releases of hydrogen sulfide and other airborne chemicals from a nearby paper mill and other industrial sites. This... continued
WE Use Chemical Weapons in Iraq
November 9, 2005Before we invaded Iraq, we accused Saddam Hussein of having chemical weapons, but none have ever been found. Now it turns out that we used them against Iraqi insurgents. We used large amounts of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city... continued
How to Save a Prehistoric Pine
November 8, 2005From the fossil record, we know that pines were the first trees on Earth and that they're much older than deciduous trees that drop their leaves every year. The Wollemi pine has been on Earth for so long?around 250 million... continued
Why We Don’t Glide Instead of Walk or Run
November 8, 2005Newswise - Horses have a variety of gaits, including walking, trotting, cantering and galloping, so why do human beings only walk or run? We have the bones and muscles to perform a variety of gaits. We could even develop a... continued