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Afghanistan hit by disfiguring tropical disease
"The Afghan capital, Kabul, has been hit by a disfiguring tropical skin disease, the World Health Organization says. The WHO warned that the disease, cutaneous leishmaniasis, threatens the health of 13 million Afghans, especially women and girls. Cutaneous...Baked beans sales surge as credit crunch bites
The credit crunch creates lots of losers but winners too and baked bean manufacturers such as Heinz are certainly winners as people look to the relatively cheap but nutricious baked bean to fill the gaps in the...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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437 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Vampire Bats Kill 38 in Venezuela
This one freaked me out when I read it. Venezuelan villagers have been dying from vampire bat bites. The symptoms point to rabies. Health officials are planning to bring mosquito nets to the villages in hopes of...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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903 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
Bed bugs infest New Rochelle cell block, police cruisers
If you need an additional reason to stay out of the backseat of a police car, here you go: bedbugs. It seems that an infestation of the little critters has spread from an upstate NY jail to the police cruisers. " ...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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German woman bites rapist's penis and flees
"A 23-year-old woman in Heidelberg saved herself from a rapist by biting his penis, police said on Thursday.According to police in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, the woman was accosted by the unknown man...
created by phoenixesrose | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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2818 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
Why Mosquitoes Love you more Than Others.
Many times I wonder, "Why do I always get bitten by mosquitos while my friends don't" Especially when I am in Asia, I get billions of mosquitos bites all over while the locals don't. The explanation my mom gives...
created by JeffHuang | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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3821 views | 19 recommendations | 10 comments
Taking a-- Hiss!
This is that last thing you could want when stepping into the bushes to relieve yourself. Avoid doing so in Far North Queensland if at all possible. In this case, a tourist ran afoul of the local fauna during an...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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274 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
Wright when Obama thought it was over
Wow, a lot of thanks Obama is getting for not throwing his pastor under the bus. Now the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is about to go through a round of interviews and speeches, drudging up the controversy over his...
created by Dave Keating | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Dengue breaks out in Java again
"The on-going rainy season in Indonesia is accompanied by the outbreak of the "annual" dengue fever with Java being hit most where tens of patients have died of the aedes aegypti virus since last January. Health...
created by imung satriani | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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316 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Kill the Restaurant...Go Speakeasy...'Good' Bites
Even though my visit to the Whisk and Ladle was related to CoWorking and not Culinary reasons, I thought the idea of Speakeasy eateries interesting. As Ligaya Mishan reminds us via her Stimuli Food Pages in Good Magazine, under the radar food joints exist in Cuba...Fast Food Outlets Are Serving Us Mountains of Salt
Thank God for this piece of information. We need to know what kind of crap we are putting in our mouths. Fast food firms seem to be interested in killing us slowly in the name of bucks."Fast-food chains are lacing... "But I'm Not a Pirate!"
That cash you just dropped on a Vista license, or the larger chunk you spent on a new PC could get your copy of Microsoft Windows XP or Vista flagged as a pirate version, cutting off its interactive capabilities....
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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763 views | 2 recommendations | 5 comments
10 things we can learn from Facebook
Excellent Facebook analysis from Susan Mernit. Very solid read. Worth thinking long and hard about. "Okay, so for the digerati, Facebook, pownce, twitter and many more are the flavors of the moment....
created by Leonard Brody | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1695 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
Man bites dog to death to save pet
"A MAN in Central China's Hubei Province is believed to have saved his pet dog from death in the jaws of a strange dog by biting the attacker to death, according to a local newspaper."Rabid cheetah bites BBC presenter
BBC presenter Simon King, best known for the Big Cat Diary programmes, was attacked by a rabid cheetah while filming in Kenya, it has emerged.Top Members Today
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