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Babies boost mothers' intelligence
Contrary to previous studies pregnant women gets their brains rewired to cope with motherhood — and their intelligence soars when the tots are born. Tests on rats showed mums become braver and faster at finding food. And the increased ability could curb...Web audience for Olympics hits record high
Not surprisingly, the Beijing Games had the biggest online presence of any Olympics. Yahoo's Olympic site, for example, tripled its traffic compared with Turin in 2006.As this New York Times piece discusses, NBC...
These homes for sale stink
"Why Fannie and Freddie matterMore Videos This boarded-up, bank-owned home is on the market in Milwaukee. On the inside, that Milwaukee home has been picked clean. Never before have there been so many squalid, dilapidated homes... Shame of binge drink Britons abroad as number arrested on holiday soars 15%
A shocking Foreign Office report reveals a huge rise in the number of arrests of Britons overseas. There were 4.603 arrests of Britons at 15 holiday destinations last year. Many arrests are due to behaviour caused...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Kenya's Safaricom soars on debut
In the unsaturated mobile phone market of Kenya, the IPO launch of the mobile phone firm Safaricom saw great success."The stock rose as high as 8 Kenyan shillings ($0.13; £0.06) from a sale price of 5 shillings...Oil price soars as US woes mount
"The price of oil has made a record jump to nearly $139 a barrel, amid reports it could reach $150 by July because of rising demand and political tension."Correspondents say oil prices were also pushed up by... Kenya Burns, Death Toll Soars
Protests turned to violence between political and ethnic groups in Kenya on monday after scores of people were killed. In just one town, at least 64 bodies were found after four days of fighting.Gangs 400 and... Internet 'brownouts' feared by 2010 as user traffic soars
While I was under the impression the infrastructure existed to actually improve our net speed and quality of access, this study suggests the opposite. I think it's much more likely that power will become an issue...I've got a souring loonie in my pocket.
Thank you stock market... Dan Rather Investigates Voting Machines -- Uncovers New Surprises About ES&S ...
By Kim Zetter"Who would have thought that Manila sweatshops would figure prominently in the manufacture of U.S. voting machines?
It turns out that Election Systems & Software, one of the top voting machine...
created by jayr_patron | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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458 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
Number of People Stopped by Police Soars in New York
Personally I find it impossible to believe that twice as many people in NYC today are acting suspiciously as in 2003."The New York Police Department released new information yesterday showing that police officers stopped 508,540 individuals on New York City streets last year...The Modeling Year In Review Pt 1. - Posted by Michael Fomkin
"January 2nd, 2007, by wayne Another model year has come to a close and by sifting through the database that was Of The Minute, MDC was able to do a bit of trend tracking. Here were some of the highlights of 2006. Still leading the pack is the unsinkable Kate Moss. Here...Spending on TV Political Ads Soars
Two billion dollars.That's what the political parties, the PACs, and everyone else will spend to get you to the polls, pull the right levers, mark the right boxes, punch the right keys, and, o yes, punch out the...
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