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http://www.infoworld.com/d/green-it/research-telecommuters-flex-time-can-handle-50-percent-more-work-866
Study found that parents who have books in their home increase the level of education their children will attain. In fact, they found that having books in the home had a greater effect than the education level of the parents, the country the children were from, the father's occupation, or even the political system of the country. I'm glad that my house is filled with books and that my wife constantly takes my kids to the library...
http://www.unr.edu/news/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450&zoneid=8
Study found a link between having a "beer belly" and an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. The study found that the more a person is overweight, the smaller their brain volume tends to become, and a reduced brain volume is linked with dementia and Alzheimer's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8693947.stm
Study found that both men and women speak with a lower-pitched voice when they talked to people that are more physically attractive. They had expected to find that women would raise their voices to sound more feminine and attractive, but instead they found that the more attractive the person on the other side was, the lower the pitch of the voice became:
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2010/05/21/A-lower-voice-may-indicate-flirting/UPI-39691274500557/
Study found that the Pacific Northwest of the US has a 37% chance of being hit by a magnitude *8* or larger earthquake in the next 50 years, more than double previous estimates of a 10-15% risk:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100531/full/news.2010.270.html
Voters in Iceland are upset with their politicians over their country's financial collapse, so they elected one of their top comedians the mayor of their capital and his political party (Best Party) won a near-majority of city council seats. The Best Party's political platform was to provide free towels in all city swimming pools, a polar bear for the zoo and cleaning up politics...and they won! Their politicians are comics, ex-singers, a housewife and an architect:
http://www.whitsundaytimes.com.au/story/2010/05/31/cheeky-best-party-wins-iceland-poll/
Seattle's new Mayor set up a website to ask residents for their ideas about what their city needs. The top vote getter was to expand their mass transit system and the next 2 most popular suggestions were to legalize pot (and tax it) and to create a nude beach:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/420748_mayorsurvey27.html
Chihuahua (named Buttercup) was heartbroken when she gave birth to a puppy that died 4 hours after birth. When 9 orphaned kittens were brought in to the animal hospital where Buttercup hangs out, Buttercup feeds and cleans them as though they were her own puppies! So, that dog is now the adoptive owner of 9 kittens...I didn't realize that kittens would drink from dogs:
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Grieving+chihuahua+kittens/3084978/story.html
Concerns about puppy mills and kitten factories being fueled by pet store sales have resulted in a growing number of cities banning sales of dogs and cats in pet stores! The cities suggest adopting from a local shelter or buying directly from a reputable breeder
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37359894
Today show news anchor Ann Curry delivered the commencement speech at Wheaton College and named a list of distinguished alumni...trouble is that the people named attended the Wheaton College in Illinois and she was speaking to the Wheaton College in Massachusetts!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gM3ccmFBKANs_C69Q8JTtkWwhKYQD9FTVISO0
German robbers failed badly in their attempt to figure out how much explosives they needed to blow open an ATM machine. They ended up BLOWING UP THE BANK and the doors and facades of other buildings for a 500 yard radius from the ATM machine...but the ATM machine and the bank's safe were not damaged:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281608/Bungling-German-robbers-blow-bank-sky-high-trying-detonate-cash-machine.html