Soda Ingredients Linked to Cirrhosis and Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reported that it found a high level of cancer-causing benzene in five of the 100 soft drinks and beverages that it tested. The levels of benzene were more than the recommended 5 parts per billion limit for drinking water.

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Why is Yawning Contagious?

Rather than being a precursor to sleep, yawning is designed to keep us awake, say US researchers. But why does seeing someone else yawn make you to do the same?

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Australian teenagers selling sex for cigarettes

TEENAGE indigenous girls are prostituting themselves to white men for beer and cigarettes in the middle of Darwin. "Cars drive up and down and prey on these women continuously," he said. "We have non-indigenous men that prey on indigenous women." He said Aboriginal women, often drunk teenagers, performed sexual favours for prices as low as a few..

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Aliens exist, but we're not looking right - Scientific Report

Recent discoveries of extremophiles - organisms living in conditions of heat, cold and dark and using chemicals once thought incompatible with life - have changed ideas of where life can survive. Prof Baross said lab experiments also showed water did not necessarily have to be the basis for life. Yet Mars Robots look for evidence of water.

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More Moles (from Best Buy and Target) Confirm PS3 Price Cut

Sony President Ryoji Chubachi may be denying any Playstation 3 price cut, but that's not stopping the retail moles from saying that they're true.

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Could you pass the U.S. Citizenship test?

MSNBC has a quiz with actual questions from the citizenship test. Not as easy as you might think. I got a 95%. The only one I missed was when the Constituion was written. I was thinking of the Declaration of Independence. Oh well... I am sure I did MUCH better then most of America will do. Take the quiz, see how you compare.

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Virginity For Sale - Offers start at £10,000

Baby-faced Carys Copestake, 18, has offered her virginity for the price of £10,000 to help her pay for university tuitions.

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What every gamer in school needs.

Ingenious.

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Man plays with lions [18 amazing pictures]

Kevin Richardson - says he relies on instinct and patience to win the animals' trust

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Dead Airman's Affidavit: Roswell Aliens Were Real

Sixty years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington state, at a height of around 10,000 feet.Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft.Visibility was good, and as pilot Kenneth Arnold scanned the sky to find the source of the light, he saw a group of nine shiny metallic objects

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