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The "Truth" About Second Hand Smoke: Which"Truths" Are More Truthful?. In 1993, the EPA released the findings of a study, in which they proclaimed that the effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS), also commonly referred to as Second Hand Smoke (SHS), upon non-smokers were indeed harmful beyond any shadow of a doubt. Their findings stated that up to 3000 deaths of non-smokers from lung cancer was directly related to ETS from smokers. Immediately, the media, and anti-smoking zealots, embraced this study as the proof that smoking should be restricted in many public areas. However, shortly after the findings were released, a federal court ruled that the first six chapters of this study were, in fact, either non-truthful or sensationalized in their findings and methods. These chapters were ordered to be vacated from the study as a whole. As a result, the EPA is now no longer allowed to use those first six chapters of their findings as staunch facts, but still references them in regards to the dangers of SHS. Many other studies, which are decidedly anti-smoking, use the results from the first six chapters as the basis for their studies, and try to provide more proof of the findings within them. Other studies, however, which are not paid for by anti-smoking lobbyists, seem to find far different results, or results that seem to reduce the sensationalist findings of the anti-smoking studies.
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'Brain Eating Ameoba' Attacks Swimmer. Those of you who remember "flesh eating bacteria" will cringe at this one: UPI is reporting a story about a 12 year-old boy who contracted a fatal 'brain-eating' infection while swimming in a Florida lake. As much as 48% of the lakes and some un-chlorinated pools in Florida host this lethal organism, which enters through the nose or ears, and quickly begins to attack the central nervous system.
3:09:02 PM
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Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry?. New Scientist reports: Whether or not you believe in the paranormal may depend entirely on your brain chemistry. People with high levels of dopamine are more likely to find significance in coincidences, and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none.
2:10:01 PM
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Saving The Project From Hell. Software engineers out there, I implore you, please come and rally to the cry of a fellow engineer in peril.
2:10:00 PM
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"Hottentot Venus" laid to rest 200 years after her abduction. "...Saartjie Baartman was dragged out to squat before the mob at 225 Piccadilly, the show's promoters billed her genitals as resembling the skin that hangs from a turkey's throat. For several years, working-class Londoners crowded in to shout vulgarities at the protruding buttocks and large vulva of the unfortunate woman made famous across Europe as the "Hottentot Venus"...Death in Paris a few years later treated the young woman...little better than life. She was carved up by Napoleon's surgeon, who made a cast of her body, pickled her genitals and brain, and put her skeleton on display in a museum." Chris McGreal, "Coming Home", The Guardian (UK), 21/02/2002 [cite] The story of Sarah Baartman, The Hottentot Venus, concerns the ritual humiliation and violation of a young African woman who was abducted to Europe in 1809 and subjected to vile humiliations and brutality.
1:10:23 PM
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Oscar Wilde. "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
2:09:50 AM
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Quentin Crisp. "Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
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Dan Quayle. "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
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Samuel Goldwyn. "I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
2:09:49 AM
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Back in the woolly olden days of the net (early nineties), I used to dial up a long distant number just to be on a BBS I'd heard about. I'd download some bizaare "Mormons on a killing spree" or Church of the SubGenius hypercard game. And check out what the current internet urban legend was. And while my phone bill is certianly cheaper today, at the expense of my DSL bill, the urban legends continue.
I love it when I get caught up in a bit of a meme. Apparently the boob-licking story is a year old. Nothing ever goes away on the internet, it's just in a different part of the loop. Jenett.radio caught it.
It's another case of blogs referencing blogs referencing other blogs referencing other blogs still. RSS feeds will be the curse of us all.
Google It! 12:36:10 AM
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Ugh. I feel like crap. First I thought it was just an allergy, but this morning I'm now aware of the aching sensation one witnesses with a summer cold.
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