tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71246222082192290692024-03-13T23:43:30.640+05:00Friday NewsNews and Views from here and thereCathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644774841516483790noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124622208219229069.post-21402499984342300812012-08-11T17:30:00.000+05:002012-08-11T17:30:05.815+05:00A Man With an Ear in His Arm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a man with an extra ear -- but it's not on his head.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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says it took him a decade to find a surgeon crazy enough to help him achieve
his dream: the implantation of an ear... in his arm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Specifically,
the inner part of his upper left arm, which is probably the exact place an ear
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Kinetica Art Fair in London. "I have two perfectly good ears, but to
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and hook it up to the Internet so people all over the world can hear what his
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully, it'll have
an off switch. There are some things arms do that we just don't want to hear</span></span><br />
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"YES!" (shortly after stuffing a buck into my g-string), and they
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"My stance has
always been that while I support the pole community's efforts to get pole into
the Olympics, I don't think the general public is ready for the sport yet on
such a mainstream/public scale,"U.S. National Pole Dancing Champion Natasha Wang told
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</div>Cathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644774841516483790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124622208219229069.post-14514524632988763822012-08-06T17:48:00.000+05:002012-08-06T17:49:35.902+05:00Mars Facts: 5 Things About Red Planet You Might Not Know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years ago is believed to have been warm and wet, like early Earth. Here are five other key points:</div>
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_About the color: It's called the red planet because the landscape is stained rusty-red by the iron-rich dust.</div>
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_Quick weight loss: Its gravity is only 38 percent that of Earth. So if you weigh 150 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 57 pounds on Mars.</div>
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_Hot and cold: Mars' temperatures can range from 80 degrees at its equator to -199 degrees at its poles.</div>
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_The air is different: Mars' atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide with traces of nitrogen and argon. Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases.</div>
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_Longer days: They last 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">An unidentified elderly woman was getting fed up with drivers speeding past a crosswalk near her home in China, according to Car News China's interpretation of Chinese-language newspaper <em style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-style: italic !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tiexue</em>. Local cops offered little help, so the resourceful granny tried slowing down drivers with the aid of a strategically positioned inflatable girlfriend.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Why settle for a boring-old stop sign when you have a highly realistic sex doll on hand?<a name='more'></a></span><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal normal 15px/21px Georgia, Century, Times, serif; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
She tied the counterfeit cutie to a tree next to the crosswalk, apparently hoping that rubbernecking motorists would slow down at the sight. Based on the photo, her tactic worked in at least one case.</div>
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Let's just hope the local police force doesn't make the same mistake as officers in China's Shandong Province. Last month, 18 officers spent almost an hour <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;">rescuing a blow-up doll from a river</span>, mistakenly thinking it was a drowning woman.</div>
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Chinese cops aren't the only ones who take sex dolls seriously, though. In 2011, 18-year-old Tyell Morton almost received a prison sentence for a prank that involved<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;">placing a blow-up doll in the girl's bathroom</span></span> at his Indiana high school.</div>
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When people drift through the tortures of starvation, scientists warn that the real reason is given by the appearance of anorexia and not by excessive weight or obesity. In this direction, Russian scientists believe that anorexia is, in fact, a dangerous mental disharmony that, over time, can lead to schizophrenia.</div>
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<a name='more'></a>About 90% of anorexia cases recorded worldwide relates to adolescents between the age of 12 to 24 years. The remaining 10% are old men and women, who, as a result of depression came to be underfeed.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />“Anorexia is always accompanied by a pathological desire to lose weight, as well as an intense fear of obesity. People suffering from this disease presents a wrong perception of their body. They see themselves as overweight, although, in reality, they suffer from a form of dystrophy.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />To lose weight, patients with anorexia torture themselves with demanding diets, exhausting exercise, self-cleaning procedures and induced vomiting after meals “, explains Ruzanna Akopyan, a specialist in anorexic psychoanalysis.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />According to her criteria, Professor Akopyan said that reliable signs of anorexia are:<br style="line-height: inherit;" />1. Patients always feel overweight, being obsessively concerned about certain parts of their body.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />2. Often, they eat standing and portion the food into very small pieces.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />3. Frequently suffer from insomnia.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />4. They isolate themselves from society.<br style="line-height: inherit;" />5. They are terrorized by the thought they may gain weight.<br />
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Specialists around the world don’t have a common view on the causes of anorexia. However, most believe that this disease is triggered by genetic and biological factors, psychological conflicts, social problems and, finally, factors in the environment.</div>
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<a name='more'></a>In that rhythm, you may want to hurry up and book a ticket, because I don’t know if that marketing strategy will keep the hotel’s doors opened for a long time<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The five-story-high guesthouse has generated a great deal of attention and controversy since its inception, with reactions ranging from criticism and derision to open admiration. The house was dubbed the "Crazy House" by early visitors, a name which Dang soon adopted for the house herself</span></span><br />
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Weighing only 7 kilograms, the two alligators are not albino, but suffer from a genetic mutation called “leucism” in scientific language. In common language, means that the reptiles in question are affected by a reduction in the amount of all pigments in the skin.<br />
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As there would have no chances of survival in the wild and risk being hunted by birds of prey and alligators adults, the two white brothers were captured, and now live in captivity along with 10 other white alligators in the Audubon Zoo.<br />
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Known as the stone columns of Lena, the incredible rock formations are not only charming in appearance, but keep important information within relating the beginning of the world.<br />
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Fossils from different organisms from the Cambrian era can provide extremely valuable perspectives on how life evolved on Earth.<br />
Lena rocky forest offers tourists an unique view. Colossal stone statues rise from the ground toward the sky, like some giant frozen in time.<br />
The pillars are grouped together and extend over distances of tens of kilometers along the river that travels by their hem.<br />
Unfortunately, approaching this place is not an easy thing to do. It’s situated in a region of Siberia still untouched by civilization and tourists need four days to reach the region, leaving from Moscow.<br />
After a long flight, you will meet armed locals more than delighted to transport you to the Lena pillars with their boats, against a payment of $ 500. The boat trip takes about 3 days, but once you get to the destination, you will find that it definitely worth it.<br />
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To mark the relaunch of the Holiday Inn hotel chain, the company that owns 1,200 buildings opened the first hotel made entirely from plastic cards, in Manhattan, New York. It consists of a guest room, a bathroom and a corridor, with all the furniture made from cards.<br />
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Bryan Berg, who set a record with his first house of cards at the age of only 17 years in 1992, asserts that this was his most daring project, as he has never before created a human-scale structure. The Key Card Hotel has been open for visitation from between 17 and 21 December. During the five days event, Bryan Berg has also built a replica of the Empire State Building inside the eccentric hotel.<br />
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The amount will reach the Association “Petits Princes”, which helps seriously ill children to fulfill dreams, announced Pias, who organized the auction for two days at the Salons Hoche, in Paris.<br />
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The buyer, Raphaël Zier, a French entrepreneur, said that it is a beautiful item, but he was more interested in the philanthropic purpose of the auction.<br />
Two other similar bottles, but in worse condition were sold for 17,000 and 15,000 euros. The three bottles were auctioned at a starting price of 2,500 euros.<br />
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</div></div>Cathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644774841516483790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124622208219229069.post-56728651723732738822011-10-23T13:06:00.000+05:002011-10-23T13:06:44.925+05:00House on a rock - Rhode Island<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f4f1e9; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RdWjTupRUcc/TqPKcLE8xfI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/AYuMfJyVnoQ/s1600/The-Rock-House-in-Rhode-Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="129" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RdWjTupRUcc/TqPKcLE8xfI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/AYuMfJyVnoQ/s200/The-Rock-House-in-Rhode-Island.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Clingstone, a 103 years old mansion in Rhode Island, arranged in retro style, is one of the most unusual homes around the world. It sits above the water, over a cliff that serves as foundation.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Henry Wood, the owner, manages the home with dedication and skill, enjoying family and friends help. The Rhode Island port is hosting the family’s boats and floating dock, sheltering them during winter, in exchange of using the house for one week during the summer.</div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Mr Wood, a 79 year old architect from Boston, bought the house, along with his former wife, Joan, in 1961, for 3,600 dollars. It stayed uninhabited for 20 years. Clingston was built by a distant cousin, JS Lovering Warton. He worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a three-story house with 23 rooms, to throne the rock of Narragansett Bay. The total cost of construction, completed in 1905, were $ 36,982. Today, the mansion is valued at 4 million dollars.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the “Clingstone working weekend”. Held each year around Memorial Day, gathers around 70 friends and Clingstone admirers to perform maintenance tasks, like cleaning the 65 windows of the house. Currently Clingstone holds ten bedrooms, each with a spectacular view and the dining room offers 14 seats.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<a name='more'></a>The paint was developed by the University of Tokyo and the first that can block radio frequency in higher spectra where Wi-Fi and other higher-bandwidth communications occur rather than just low-frequency wireless like FM radio.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t37YyuxEVSE/TjUaPiwM83I/AAAAAAAAAkM/VxjicyVQis0/s1600/Wifi-Paint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-t37YyuxEVSE/TjUaPiwM83I/AAAAAAAAAkM/VxjicyVQis0/s400/Wifi-Paint.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Taiji was once the largest center for hunting whales in Japan.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />On the southeast coast of Japan, the dolphin hunting season lasts from September to March. The dolphins that fall in the fishermen’s net are trapped in a small bay near Taiji, from where they are kept from escaping with electrified wire nets.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Young females are then separated from the group to be sold to water parks and the rest captured mammals are killed for meat. The blood of thousands of dolphins killed annually reddens the water of the bay.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The entire massacre was surprised by Ric O’Barry, aged 70 years, who has investigated years before could surprise on film the whole atrocity. The documentary made by him is entitled “The Cove” and has already won several awards at the Sundance Film Festival.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m6WK3WTFkgQ/TjUSjuILeBI/AAAAAAAAAjY/n6AvOlf9AWs/s1600/china_air_pollution01438.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-m6WK3WTFkgQ/TjUSjuILeBI/AAAAAAAAAjY/n6AvOlf9AWs/s200/china_air_pollution01438.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Blacksmith Institute, an organization based in New York that supports environmental projects against pollution, recently conducted a study of the most polluted cities in the world.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Research reveals that Linfen, located in the Chinese province of Shanxi, is the most polluted city in the world.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />According to the authors, the conclusion is due to accumulation of large amounts of coal dust in the atmosphere and the presence of other harmful particles from industrial emissions and from the use of motor vehicles.</div><a name='more'></a>The situation is reflected, say researchers in the health of the 3 million inhabitants.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Natalie Bak, the organizer of the unusual “lunch” said that the idea came in a warm evening in April, when she realized that she would enjoy it even more if she were completely naked.<br />
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</span></div>Cathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644774841516483790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124622208219229069.post-30859681068089705892011-07-29T23:56:00.000+05:002011-07-29T23:56:59.858+05:00Nude PETA protest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TBEgFW3dJzk/TjMCWXSq2BI/AAAAAAAAAis/ESA1JpRNzXw/s1600/peta3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TBEgFW3dJzk/TjMCWXSq2BI/AAAAAAAAAis/ESA1JpRNzXw/s200/peta3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">More women, members of PETA (the organization that fights for animal rights), protested today in London, against killing snakes.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The protesters, almost naked, painted their skin as snake skin to attract attention about exotic animals killings. They were banners that said “<b>Do not kill us for our skin</b>”.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a>According to PETA, the skinning of snakes is an unimaginable cruelty. The reptiles are left alive and sprayed with water to be able to take the skin more easily. Sometimes snakes remain in agony even days after they are skinned.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>A sinister incident took place in 1995, when a huge flock of geese landed on the lake’s water. Absolutely all the birds died, the researchers managing to bring out “only” 342 partially dissolved in acid skeletons. After all, the lake is nothing but another “artwork” of man.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>No more details are known, if the mother came out of the coma or if the child was born naturally or by Cesarean.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>The work on the first phase of the project will start in the last quarter of this year, aiming to build an airport, in combination with Fraport, which operates Frankfurt airport.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In approximately 10 years, the future paradise of gambling, called Oz, would receive between 15 and 20 million visitors per year and host 800,000 inhabitants’ after the model of Astana, the young capital appeared on the map just a decade ago.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The complex would be built on an area of 11,500 hectares in the desert, at 70 km north of Almaty, the former capital of the country. Oz will have 25 casinos, 1,000 restaurants, hotels with a capacity of 42,000 rooms and 275,000 residences, according to the promoter.<br />
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</span></div>Cathy Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17644774841516483790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124622208219229069.post-83017237243314843482011-07-29T23:07:00.000+05:002011-07-29T23:07:35.297+05:00Anti-Rape lip gloss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GivMcDJ-njc/TjL2dFU05iI/AAAAAAAAAh8/9ofwxfKqKjU/s1600/lips.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GivMcDJ-njc/TjL2dFU05iI/AAAAAAAAAh8/9ofwxfKqKjU/s200/lips.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">To end the many cases of rape in the world, researchers came to the women’s aid inventing the anti-rape lip gloss.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Most women become victims of rapists after drinking in bars and clubs after drugs have been squeezed into their drinks. The purpose of this lip gloss is that once applied to identify drugs like GHB and ketamine.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In the event that the drink contains narcotics, the gloss will stain blue. This “miracle” detector was called “2 Love My Lips”, and the price is 10 pounds.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a>The anti-rape gloss is already on market in England, and will also appear elsewhere in Europe, Asia and Australia.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">The scan can reveal instantly the presence of hidden weapons or explosives, and it eliminates the need for body searches <a name='more'></a>– also unwanted by the passengers – and removal of jackets, belts and footwear, the system enabling so to “process” more passengers per hour.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />But the scans also reveal breast implants, piercing and shows clearly the naked body image of a person, which arouse discussion on the infringement of privacy.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Authorities insisted that the images are not pornographic and that they are destroyed as soon as the control ends.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RcsoPrBE4pU/TjL1J43NF5I/AAAAAAAAAhw/NDMGa4SKJMc/s1600/airportbodyscannerharmfulradiationterahertzscanll_468x3991.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="340" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RcsoPrBE4pU/TjL1J43NF5I/AAAAAAAAAhw/NDMGa4SKJMc/s400/airportbodyscannerharmfulradiationterahertzscanll_468x3991.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<a name='more'></a> He lived until the age of 5 years, passing away suddenly in February of 2004. At death he reached a length of 2.5 meters and was armed with a pair of fangs of 14,4 cm.<br />
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