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How Long Do Viruses Live?

How Long Does a Virus "Live" Outside a Host? Some viruses can "live" undisturbed for years. Others are so fragile that they can only withstand "external" conditions for mere minutes if not seconds. This hub...

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White Slavery among Children in the U.S.

I read a lot of news, I watch a lot of news shows and one story seems unusually silent, suspiciously silent and that story is the epidemic of human trafficking also called white slavery in the United States....

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Obesity epidemic : the ten countries with the fattest people

I got out my calculator, did a little extra research, and here they are! The top ten countries for obesity. I must admit, I was prejudiced. I expected the USA to top the list, and I was absolutely wrong. I also thought England would thud heavily towards the top, but it didn't even make the list (an honourable 12th place only.) The figures are for the percentage of the adult population with a BMI over 30. That will, of course, catch a few rugby players and heavyweight boxers who have high BMIs

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Is Anger Depression Turned Outward?

If you read, you're probably aware that clinical depression is currently at epidemic levels. Right now, about 17.5 million Americans are affected by some form of depression. Women are roughly twice as likely...

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10 Funny Videos About Swine Flu

It's been really interesting to see the response from the media and the Internet to the swine flu issue. It's certainly a very serious issue to those people who have been affected by it and there's a good...

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Can Americans Learn from "French Women Don't Get Fat?"

First of all, is it true? If so, is it simply a selective gene pool, or are there tips we can glean from the French lifestyle to help us manage our weight in like manner? And, most importantly, if there are such tips, are they found in this book?

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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UKRAINE PLAGUE AND SWINE FLU

The most important thing right now is to keep up with the information that is available and to begin to protect yourselves, take responsibility for yourselves and avoid fear and panic of not knowing what is...

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Swine Flu: Daily Diary of a sufferer. July 2009

Saturday July 18th 2009~ Evening: Felt extremely uncomfortable whilst watching a film at the cinema and the cough started ticking my chest.I went home with a very stiff neck and shoulders and a headache...

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Japanese men and train groping.

The groping problem has gotten so bad on the japanese train system, that seperate cars for women only have been put in place. Now there is a call for seperate men only cars. Ever see photo's of how they...

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NEW "SWINE" FLU, what caused it & NATURAL PREVENTION and CURE

From few days ago, world is in the state of global panick because of new Mexican flu. In early April, in Mexico, Veracruz, was noticed numbers of serious respiratory illnesses and some deaths. Mexico...

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