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Some Parents Insist Their Children Wear Clothes (This is News?)

The New York Times, always looking for a story, decided to report on the seemingly GROWING TREND OF 3-to-5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN RUNNING AROUND NAKED.

Apparently, stripping off ones clothes and running around the house before bath time has expanded into more of an “anywhere, anytime” thing, especially in the pre-school set.

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How To News

How To Find Your Lost Wallet

Find? How about “get it returned”?

A study in England dropped 240 wallets around town to see which wallets would get returned.

The wallets didn’t contain any money or other useful items, just receipts or ticket stubs.

However, there was one key difference in each wallet, which is what the study was all about:  DOES THE PHOTO YOU CARRY IN YOUR WALLET INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE WALLET WOULD BE RETURNED?

The answer to that question, apparently, is “yes”.

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Gadgets Internet News

Are You An Extreme Techie? Here’s Proof…

Nielsen recently did a survey that revealed who the “Extreme Techies” are.

ARE YOU AN EXTREME TECHIE?

The study was conducted for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, and as such meant that the focus of the study was going to be all about online video – who watches it, and how.

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Travel

The World’s Best Tourists for 2009


Tourist Trap

Expedia.com has released the results from their 2nd annual survey of the WORLD’S BEST TOURISTS, as voted on by Expedia partners.

27 nationalities were voted on by over 4500 hoteliers, and this is what they found:

  • The Japanese ranked 1st, for the 2nd year in a row.  They also were judged to be the quietest, most polite, cleanest, and least likely to complain
  • In 2nd place were the British
  • 3rd place went to Canadians
  • The French fell to the bottom of the list, mainly due to being perceived as bad tippers and being impolite.
  • Americans, Italians, and Spanish are the loudest tourists
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Women Hate Their Bad Breath More Than Their Mismatched Underwear


Researchers talked with 1000 women and have concluded that when dating, WOMEN ARE MOST CONCERNED WITH HOW BAD THEIR BREATH IS.

78 percent of the women surveyed for Macleans said that they were most concerned about their breath rather than what their partner thought about their clothes.

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At What Age are Women the Happiest?

Researchers have determined that WOMEN ARE MOST HAPPY WITH THEIR LOVE LIFE AND BODY IMAGE AT 28 years of age, all based on a study by Clairol Perfect 10, which surveyed 4,000 women.

The researchers concluded that once women hit 30, they start to worry about their grey hair and wrinkles.

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Want To Look 13 Years Younger? Give Up Smoking.

Scientists in Italy have determined that WOMEN WHO STOP SMOKING CAN LOOK YOUNGER.

How much younger?  Try 13 years younger… and all in just nine months.

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Ugly Babies and the Parents Who Love Them…or not

A new study published in the Public Library of Science by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School entitled GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSING OF BABIES ARE DETERMINED BY THEIR FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS concludes what all new mothers are afraid to hear:  that AN UGLY BABY IS HARDER TO LOVE.

The study set out to clarify an Israeli study that showed 70% of abused or abandoned children had some sort of visible flaw – but no other health or learning issues by determining “why”.