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Smile! Crow’s Feet Make You Look Clever and More Attractive

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smiling at middle ageCrow’s feet – often regarded as an unwelcome sign of ageing – could actually be something to smile about.

People are judged more attractive and more intelligent if their eyes wrinkle around the corners when they smile, research shows.

Psychologists asked a group of men and women about their impressions of a set of photographs showing people smiling.

When crow’s feet were present in the faces on photographs, the people were thought to be more intelligent and more attractive.

 

(READ the story in the Daily Mail)

How To Save A Public Library: Make It A Seed Bank

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seed librarySome signs of spring are starting to break through in Colorado. The public library in the small town of Basalt is trying an experiment: In addition to borrowing books, residents can now check out seeds.

After you borrow the packet of seeds, you grow the crop and harvest new seeds from your best produce. You return them so the library can lend your seeds out to others.

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Mini Cooper Sends Spam Apology, Care Package To Customers After Email Glitch

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spam apology from Mini CooperTo fix an email spam catastrophe, the car company Mini Cooper sent a humorous and lovely package to those customers whose inboxes were inundated by hundreds of messages. On Wednesday, a Reddit user posted a photo of the way the car company apologized for their server glitch.

The company sent chocolate and other items along with a note that read:

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France to Turn Off Office and Shop Lights at Night

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night Europe satellite-NASAFrench shops and office buildings will have to turn off their lights at night to save energy and reduce light pollution, the French environment ministry said on Wednesday.

From July 1, all non-residential buildings will have to switch off interior lights one hour after the last worker leaves the premises. All exterior and shop window lighting will have to be turned off by 1 am.

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Prison Inmates Jump in to Rescue 3 Boys From Raging Creek

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river reflecting sunPrisoners working in a nearby park jumped into strong moving current to help save three boys floating downstream after their kayak overturned in a Washington state creek.

Ten prison inmates from the Larch Corrections Center near Yacolt, Wash., were doing park maintenance when they heard screams for help and responded quickly, fire officials told The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Wash.

 

(READ the story from NBC News)

Study Finds Beer Ingredient Could Help Brew New Medicine

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hops photo from freshops.comA recent discovery by scientists at the University of Washington means that a main beer ingredient – hops – could be used to treat a number of health issues.

The authors point out that while “excessive beer consumption cannot be recommended to propagate good health, isolated humulones and their derivatives can be prescribed with documented health benefits.”

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War Amputee Flashes New Limbs After Historic Double Arm Transplant

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wheelchair amputee with doctors - Johns Hopkins photo by Keith WellerA quadruple-amputee GI from Staten Island proudly showed off his two newly transplanted arms yesterday by using them to push his wheelchair into a press conference — then vowed to drive a car again.

“The arms feel great!” said beaming Iraq War vet Brendan Marrocco, as he displayed his new limbs at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he underwent the extraordinary double transplant Dec. 18.

The 26-year-old U.S. soldier who lost all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack is now celebrated as the Baltimore hospital’s first bilateral arm transplant patient. The innovative treatment, which entails an infusion of the deceased donor’s bone marrow cells, was designed to prevent rejection of the new limbs.

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War Amputee Flashes New Limbs After Historic Double Arm Transplant

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wheelchair amputee with doctors - Johns Hopkins photo by Keith WellerA quadruple-amputee GI from Staten Island proudly showed off his two newly transplanted arms yesterday by using them to push his wheelchair into a press conference — then vowed to drive a car again.

“The arms feel great!” said beaming Iraq War vet Brendan Marrocco, as he displayed his new limbs at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he underwent the extraordinary double transplant Dec. 18.

The 26-year-old U.S. soldier who lost all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack is now celebrated as the Baltimore hospital’s first bilateral arm transplant patient. The innovative treatment, which entails an infusion of the deceased donor’s bone marrow cells, was designed to prevent rejection of the new limbs.

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Cops Do Their Routine Paperwork at Schools, a Cheap Way to Add Security

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deputy sits at school lunchtable - ABC VideoInspired to bolster school security by the December shooting inside Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, deputies in Douglas County are voluntarily doing their paperwork in parking lots outside their district’s 40-plus elementary schools. The result, they say, is more security without additional resources.

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First Black South African Billionaire Donates Fortune to Poor

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African billionaire Patrice MotsepeSouth Africa’s first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, on Wednesday said he has signed up for the Giving Pledge, becoming the first African to join some of the world’s wealthiest people in donating vast sums of personal wealth to the poor.

The Giving Pledge is a philanthropic initiative started by US billionaire Warren Buffet along with Bill and Melinda Gates that has recruited nearly 100 billionaires, mostly Americans, who have pledged to donate the majority of their wealth to charity.

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George Clooney Picks Up Stranger’s Tab at Restaurant

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Clooney photo from the UNGeorge Clooney has once again shown himself to be the perfect gentleman.

Fearing that he and his party had been too loud while dining at the Grill Royal restaurant in Berlin, the actor picked up the $120 tab for a nearby table, Oliver Hermann, told the newspaper Bild.

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Super Bowl: Real Life ‘Blind Side’ Players are Survivors in Life and On Field

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football player Blind Side player2-ABCvidBaltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Ohre, who was made famous by the movie “Blind Side”, will be facing a player on the opposing team Sunday, who also was blessed in the same way with a happy ending.

The two, who aren’t brothers by birth, are brothers in survival — both having been adopted by white families showing what love really is.

San Francisco 49er linebacker Patrick Willis (in photo, with his adoptive mom) was Oher’s teammate in college and travelled the same difficult road to Sunday’s game.

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Super Bowl: Real Life ‘Blind Side’ Players are Survivors in Life and On Field

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football player Blind Side player2-ABCvidBaltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Ohre, who was made famous by the movie “Blind Side”, will be facing a player on the opposing team Sunday, who also was blessed in the same way with a happy ending.

The two, who aren’t brothers by birth, are brothers in survival — both having been adopted by white families showing what love really is.

San Francisco 49er linebacker Patrick Willis (in photo, with his adoptive mom) was Oher’s teammate in college and travelled the same difficult road to Sunday’s game.

(WATCH the video below – with ad – from ABC)

Group of Men Played Game of Tag for 23 Years

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golfing friends play tag for 23 yrsMr. Dennehy and nine of his friends have spent the past 23 years locked in a game of “Tag.”

It started in high school when they spent their morning break darting around the campus of Gonzaga Prep School in Spokane, Wash. Then they moved on—to college, careers, families and new cities. But because of a reunion, a contract and someone’s unusual idea to stay in touch, tag keeps pulling them closer, flying around the country surprising each other.

That means players get tagged at work and in bed. Wives are enlisted as spies and assistants are ordered to keep a lookout so they can avoid being caught by other players.

(READ the story from the Wall Street Journal)

Thanks to Chris Cloud for sending the link!

Teen Convinces Gatorade to Remove Additive

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GatoradeA 16-year-old from Mississippi fought one of the largest beverage companies — and won.

The young vegan researched an ingredient in Gatorade to see if it was healthy. Brominated vegetable oil, she learned, had already been banned in Europe and elsewhere after animal studies found it to be dangerous in high doses.

Sarah Kavanagh started an online petition that received 200,000 signatures. PepsiCo, the drink’s manufacturer relented to the social pressure and announced it would be removing the additive from the sports drink.

(WATCH the video below from TODAY or READ the Reuters story in the Denver Post)

Amazing Pep Talk From Little Kid: Never Give Up!

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Kid President gives pep talk-SoulPancakeWe all need a little encouragement every now and then.

A little boy who wears a suit and calls himself “Kid President” knows this, and has put together a video you can play each morning as you wake up or share with your friend who needs a kick in the right direction.

“It’s everybody’s duty to give the world a reason to dance.”

 

Watch the video below…

Sperm Whales Take in Outcast Bottlenose Dolphin

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dolphin adopted by whale-Alexander DM Wilson Aquatic MammalsA group of sperm whales appear to have taken in a deformed bottlenose dolphin, marine researchers have discovered.

In the heartwarming scene near the Azores in the North Atlantic, the scientists watched the dolphin six times while it nuzzled and rubbed members of the group, reports the journal Science.

Sperm whales have good reasons not to like bottlenose dolphins, so this has puzzled researchers.

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Mystery Bible From Baseball History Found Among Pile of Donated Books

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old bookJoanne Murphy didn’t see much in the old Bible that someone donated with a pile of books to the Sacramento Public Library.

The only interesting thing about it was the inscription page. “Pirates,” it said, “1953,” followed by a long list of signatures.

The Bible, it turned out, had been a gift to baseball legend Branch Rickey, the baseball executive who broke the sport’s color barrier in 1947 by hiring Jackie Robinson to be the first African-American player.

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French, Mali Troops Retake Timbuktu From Extremists as City Cheers

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Troops enter Timbuktu -French Army Communications Audiovisual OfficeResidents of the ancient city of Timbuktu erupted in joy as French and Malian troops drove in on Monday after Islamist rebels fled to their last stronghold in the North.

For centuries a cosmopolitan city and a center of Islamic learning, Timbuktu was seized in April 2012 by radical Islamists who outlawed secular music, forced women to wear veils, and stoned in public those who broke their laws. The militants had destroyed ancient Muslim shrines and also burned manuscripts before fleeing.

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Mali Locals Saved Some Ancient Manuscripts from Islamists

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pastarchivesThe preservationists of Timbuktu’s centuries-old artifacts have been holding their breath for weeks.

In interviews with TIME on Monday, preservationists said that in a large-scale rescue operation early last year, shortly before the militants seized control of Timbuktu, thousands of manuscripts were hauled out of the Ahmed Baba Institute to a safe house elsewhere.

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