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LIGHT MY FIRE
5/31/2012 5:57:07 PM
THE PERSISTANCE OF THE PAST IN THE PRESENT


Centralia, Pennsylvania Fire Still Burns Underneath Town, 50 Years On 

Fifty years ago on Sunday, a fire at the town dump ignited an exposed coal seam, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the demolition of nearly every building in Centralia — a whole community of 1,400 simply gone.

All these decades later ...
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/centralia-pennsylvania-fire_n_1546552.html


LIGHT, MORE LIGHT
5/30/2012 3:29:19 PM
WHY DON'T THEY BUILD EVERYTHING TO LAST LIKE THIS?


Neon light left on for 77 years discovered during restaurant renovation
Clifton’s Cafeteria in Los Angeles has been in business since 1935, although the site had a cafeteria even before that. During the Great Depression, Clifton’s displayed forest scenes on the walls, illuminated from behind by neon lights. In 1949, a basement restroom was partitioned to convert it into a storage area, and one of the neon lights was covered over -but it wasn’t turned off first ... 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151843/Clifton-Cafeteria-Neon-light-left-77-years-discovered-Los-Angeles-restaurant-renovation.html#ixzz1wwBsGrrO
THE PILL PUSHERS
5/28/2012 6:33:38 AM
PSYCHIATRY HAS DEVOLVED FROM TALK THERAPY TO DRUG DEALING

Critics Blast Big Psychiatry for Invented and Redefined Mental Illnesses

Unlike in conventional medicine where objective diagnoses and treatments are made based on observable biological evidence, psychiatrists get together every so often to decide what should or should not be considered a “mental illness.” And they do not always agree, as evidenced by the more than 13,000 professionals from around the world who recently signed an open letter demanding that ...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/11370-critics-blast-big-psychiatry-for-invented-and-redefined-mental-illnesses

Another related story:http://www.naturalnews.com/034997_mental_illness_grieving_psychiatry.html
SEE YOU LATER
5/27/2012 2:08:32 PM
AN AIRMAN RETURNS
5/26/2012 4:52:28 AM
AFTER 62 YEARS

Remains of Lost Cold War Era Airman to be Buried

A Cold War mystery will drift through the cypress trees of the Presidio on Friday when an Air Force gunner is laid to rest, 62 years after he was last seen bailing out of a crippled plane carrying an atomic bomb toward a mock attack on San Francisco.

Staff Sgt. Elbert W. Pollard and four other men were lost ...
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/24/BAG11OMGST.DTL#ixzz1vxovDr9I

Another article: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Remains-of-lost-Cold-War-era-airman-to-be-buried-3585867.php#ixzz1vxoGgH00
REFORM DIET
5/24/2012 3:58:04 AM
AFTER ALL, THERE'S HOPE FOR EVERYONE


World's First Vegetarian Shark Prefers Heads of Lettuce

Sharks have garnered a well-deserved reputation as the ocean's most ferocious killers, capable of sniffing out a single drop of blood in the water from miles away -- but for one nurse shark at an aquatic center in the UK, the taste of meat seems to have lost its luster ...
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/worlds-first-vegetarian-shark-prefers-lettuce.html
LIKE US
5/23/2012 2:29:53 PM
THIS IS JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE. VIRTUALLY ALL ANIMALS HAVE DISTINCT PERSONALITIES AND EVERY PET OWNER MUST KNOW IT


Chimps' personalities are like people's, study says


Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people", researchers say.

For years experts have debated whether great apes truly display human-like personalities - or if ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18146336
MEDITERRANEAN DIET
5/21/2012 2:58:24 AM
THESE LATEST FINDINGS, COMBINED WITH THE FACT THAT THE LYCOPHENE IN TOMATO SAUCE IS ALSO A CANCER PREVENTIVE, MAKE PIZZA A HEALTH POWERHOUSE

RESEARCH SHOWS OREGANO EFFECTIVELY DESTROYS CANCER CELLS 

Oregano has long since been a popular seasonal herb for various pizza and pasta dishes, as well as a powerful antioxidant.  But its benefits may extend beyond just enhancing flavor and fighting bacteria.
A new study published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology highlights the cancer fighting effects ...
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/04/24/oregano-shown-to-effectively-destroy-prostate-cancer-cells/#ixzz1viibi1kT

Another article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2134602/Prostate-cancer-treatment-Oregano-seasoning-powerful-weapon-disease.html#ixzz1vihbOJKZ
GOOD NEWS
5/19/2012 8:24:43 AM
PEOPLE WHO MAKE NO EXCUSES FOR THEMSELVES CAN ACHIEVE

40-YEAR-OLD HOMELESS WOMAN GRADUATES FROM UNIVERSITY

College graduation is a routine rite of passage for many students.  For Shawna Machado, it's the next step in a long, challenging road ...
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-10/news/31648812_1_retail-jobs-business-insider-mentored
BAD, BUT NOT EVIL
5/14/2012 5:32:17 PM

BAD BOYS ARE MORE MASCULINE, THUS BETTER PROTECTORS OF OFFSPRING

NEW STUDY: WHY WOMEN CHOOSE BAD BOYS
Women choose bad boys because their hormones make them, new research suggests. When ovulating a woman's hormones influence who she sees as good potential fathers, and they specifically pick ...
http://www.livescience.com/20294-women-choose-bad-boys.html

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