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Possible Aggressive Approach from the U.S. towards China |
 ...ssion was the fact that the Chinese yuan is undervalued by about 40% and this fact advantages the Chinese manufacturers over international firms in terms of pricing. Thus two Democrats and two Republicans wanted to force a raise of the Chinese national currency, yuan, against the U.S. dollar.
The bill will need a two thirds support both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, in order it would not be vetoed in t... |
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Compliments and Money Give the Same Satisfaction |
 ...rding to the answers participants had given in the questionnaires and from the videos.
The researchers monitored the brain activity when a person received a compliment or a cash reward. The brain scans showed that both psychological and money reward activated the same area in the brain.
The results of the study may explain some peculiarities of social behavior like altruism and proves that social reward is essentia... |
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Rich People Are Not Always Smart People |
 ...ist went further and studied the relationship between three factors: intelligence, wealth and financial difficulty.
The results of the study were based on the information collected from 7,403 Americans, who took part in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The survey is funded by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and it represents people who are currently in their mid 40s.
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Women Find $70,000 on Junk-Yard |
 ...An interesting case happened in Aguazul, Colombia. A group of women were gathering old paper, glass and cans, when they ran onto a rather impressive sum of money: something equivalent to $70,000.
Jose David Castaneda, the public prosecutor in the Department of Casanare, said that this discovery was a simple accident.
The finding was reported by one of the relatives of the women, thus the police could retain the mone... |
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Fake Products – a Trifle or Economic Crunch? |
 ...3 percent. The department fulfilled more than 14,000 seizures worth approximately $155 million.
As stated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, counterfeiting has resulted in over 750,000 Americans losing their jobs.
As estimated by the World Health Organization, 10 percent of all medications worldwide are fake.
In April 2007 only in Chicago police confiscated about 13,000 pairs of fake Nike shoes - their total ... |
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Inborn Empathy - In Other's Shoes Completely |
 ...a mix of sensations at a time, like seeing sounds or hearing colors. Such condition is found in one out of 23 people.
The recently studied mirror synesthesia was examined with the help of brain scans, registering an activation in certain areas of the brain and tactile response when participants saw the other person being touched.
Experts also performed a test, when the person with mirror synesthesia was touched at... |
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Doctor Removes Gall Bladder through Woman's Mouth |
| ...ough the mouth. Surgery through orifices will allow doctors perform the procedure without general anesthetic.
As gall bladder is one of the most wide-spread surgeries, with more than 500,000 Americans requiring its removal, the new procedure can become a breakthrough in medicine.
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Bad Memories Can Be Suppressed If Only You Really Want It |
 ...r incident. While the pictures were shown, the participants were given a task either to keep in mind the image with the face expressing one of the emotions or not. During the learning process, brain scans of the volunteers showed that two regions of prefrontal cortex were working to block brain areas that are responsible for visual memorizing, memory encoding and emotional response.
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A Jogger Wearing iPod Struck by Lightning |
 ...se the ear buds imply metal wires in one's ears.
According to the report of the National Lightning Safety Institute, lightning is the second weather source of deaths in the US. Four hundred Americans are annually struck, and about 67 are killed by lightning - the death rate is higher than those caused by tornadoes or hurricanes. About three-quarter of people who survive after a lightning strike are left with severe ... |
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Most people would live without sex but not without Internet |
 ...According to a survey most Americans cannot live without going to the net for more than a week, preferring web surfing to friends and sex.
In a survey conducted by JWT advertising agency 1,011 Americans had to answer how long they can do without Internet. As much as 15 percent said that they would feel good no more than a day or less without Internet, 21 percent could do no more than a couple of days, 19 percent of pa... |
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Russia Could Claim Rights for North Pole Territories in 2009 |
 ...ip - "Academic Fedorov" - and an ice-breaker - "Rossia" (Russia) - would run a series of tests to prove that the Lomonosov Ridge is, geographically, part of Russia. Those tests included deep seismic scans, collecting specimen from the sea grounds, measuring gravitational nonuniformities, aero-physical survey and using several drifting stations.
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4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws |
 ...ps that can be distinguished for a person without any medical education. The 4D imagery augment the opinion when the foetus is considered to be conscious around 18 weeks.
Dr. Savell says that new scans can become a powerful tool to take part in the debates referring to the limiting the time of late-term abortions in the US and the UK to 18 weeks instead of 24 . Many doctors consider the foetus to be able to feel pain a... |
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Researchers Suggest: More Happiness Results in More Suffering |
 ...to become less happy.
The study conducted by psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi (University of Virginia) and his colleagues from three other institutions suggests that on average, European-Americans feel happy in general. They feel more happy than Asian-Americans, Japanese or Koreans. However, European-Americans loose their happiness more easily when influenced by negative factors and need more time to recover tha... |
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