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Ha! This is from a newspaper in Edmonton, AB, Canada. My girlfriend and I were cracking up reading this in the paper a few days ago.

Just like all the weird drug slang that anti-drug PSAs have, I'd be massively surprised if they could find someone who knew all of these, and even more surprised if they could find someone who used them.
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The article, including the posted portion, has a very likely and plausible explanation for the feet. Why end the post with, "Could they be victims of a serial killer (dubbed the "Reebok Ripper")?"

Sensationalizing ftl.
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The most important things have already been said by the above posters, though I will add:

Mercutio is right in a sense; DDT alone won't solve the problem... but it would have. Many malarial mosquitoes are now immune to DDT because we stopped spraying. While we were using DDT, malaria was wiped out in America, Europe, the Caribbean, Taiwan and Australia. Malaria was on the brink of extinction in Sri Lanka and India. Then DDT was banned, and since then malaria has come back with a vengeance in places it was nearly wiped out and DDT can't come to our rescue.

20 million children have died because DDT was banned. If I believed in hell I'd have to believe there is a special place there reserved for Carson.
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Someone I went to high school with, when asked by medical personnel what she was doing when her jaw locked, blamed a yawn. What she was really doing was a tad more embarrassing...
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I think this is a positive move. In response to those who don't think it will help the students, it's been shown that chess develops kids' visual memory, attention span, spatial reasoning, and prediction skills and, more importantly, some research has shown that playing chess is one of a handful of activities (which also includes reading out loud) that can significantly alter brain structure and development.

While the scientific consensus is that you can't make kids more intelligent (this is why "Baby Einstein" DVDs are mostly a sham) you can affect their development, outlook and intellectual confidence in a positive way with these kind of programs.
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This happens in Jasper and Banff, Alberta, Canada as well. I don't know how many idiot tourists I have seen almost get themselves injured or killed by elk. People walk right up to them to take pictures and then have to run for their lives when the elk charge. And I just don't understand - I grew up in a city too, but I wouldn't even think of approaching a wild animal like that. What makes them do it?
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I always find it so weird that conservative Americans continually use the word "socialist" as if it's 1950 and the Soviet Union is still the biggest threat to American life.

Every western nation, other than the US, has socialist policies and report after report shows that they are doing better than America in all the metrics that matter (quality of life, life expectancy, infant mortality, education, crime, happiness, etc.).

Maybe it's time to open your eyes and stop worshiping McCarthy.
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The picture here looks pretty good, and it's a neat idea, but most of her photos just look like a girl jumping. Maybe if she kept her legs straight I would think "levitation".
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@Al Harron, he's not saying Tolkien invented fantasy, he's (rightly) saying that without Tolkien we wouldn't have the modern fantasy genre - or it would be greatly diminished. The release of the Lord of the Rings was a major literary event that influenced fantasy writing so much that without it our biggest fantasy series' and authors would not exist.
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Shameful. It's just another attempt at social engineering through children. Maybe the teachers should spend more time teaching children and less time attempting to teach their parents.
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I'm really surprised no one else has mentioned this, but what this guy is talking about at the beginning, that religion is like a gene, is exactly Dawkins' concept of a meme (which he coined in 1976). A gene transmits biological information, memes can be said to transmit idea and belief information.

As for his belief that actual genes are involved in the process of belief, that too is not a new one.

But there is a problem with how he projects that into the future. He says, "studies have shown that, even controlling for income and education, people who are more religious have more children, on average, than people who are secular" which is true, but that doesn't mean religious people will overrun the world. Adherence to religion has been shown to be inversely linked with education.

If education wasn't in the picture then the number of religious adherents might grow, but as access to education increases and the average level of education goes up, the number of religious people will go down.
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