Not only does it soothe the savage beast, but music also makes unruly children calmer while at the same time honing their facilities for cognitive skills and physical coordination, according to a leading expert. A mother's soft lullaby, granddad's wh

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Dear Annie: Each year, the company my wife works for hosts a Christmas dinner party at a local restaurant. What used to be an enjoyable meal with a handful of employees has become a large, drunken event lasting late into the night. One year, two empl

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What's in store for tech fans in 2008? Plenty. Technology buffs can look forward to products that are better, faster and less expensive than those we rely upon today. The iPhone may have been the biggest tech product rollout of 2007, but that doesn't

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The mathematical marriage predictor. You might not think that mathematicians have anything particularly relevant to say about your love life. But you'd be wrong--if we're talking about James Murray, a mathematician at the University of Washington in

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In this Moment of Science Don and Yael discuss a scientific way to choose the perfect date movie. Don: Okay, Yael, if you were me, would you take your date to a violent action flick or a romantic movie? Yael: A romance, of course. D: Well, there migh

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Amanda: Hi, Mike. What are you reading? Mike: Oh, these are just some books I picked up at a local poetryfestival that took place a couple of weeks ago. Even though a lot of what the featured poets read wasn't in English, it was still neat to see tha

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A Boy, A Dog, A Frog and A Friend by Mercer and Marianna Mayer 1 One day a boy went fishing with his dog and his frog.He sat by the side of a pond and patiently waited for a fish to bite. 2 All of a sudden he felt a bite! 3 It had to be a big fish be

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you shouldnt quit drinking milk. It is a good source of calcium after all.what you should do is stop consuming dairy on an empty stomach period. On an empty stomach, dairy moves faster through your intestines and is more likely to cause you intoleran

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It seems that the key trend in the entertainment industry these days is the adoption of 3D. Following the success of 3D films such as Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, the video game business is keen to muscle in on the action with Nintendo announcing

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Dutch police said the pilot was arrested in the cockpit. He is suspected of flying with a forged licence for more than a decade. The police said he had once had a commercial pilot licence but it had expired and it never qualified him for passenger fl

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For those of us lucky enough to always have enough food and water, it may be hard to imagine living through a drought. A drought occurs for a variety of reasons, usually including a lack of rainfall and warm temperatures.Soil moisture severely dwindl

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 01 February 2007 The Nigerian government's announcement earlier this week that tests confirmed the country's first human death from the bird flu virus appears to have left Lagos residents unfazed. Sarah Simpson reports for VOA

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By Nico Colombant Abuja 17 April 2007 A Nigerian man look at election posters in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 15 Apr 2007 Observers, analysts and ordinary Nigerians are hoping for better presidential and legislative elections Saturday, following the chaot

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 20 May 2006 Two unidentified farm worker walk towards birds suspected of having bird flu virus Officials in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are investigating reports of a

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Shopping and Hummingbird s 购物和蜂鸟 Yal: Did you know, Don, that your shopping habits maybe similar to a hummingbird s? Don: Are you going to tell me that hummingbird s are also sold on flash colors and miracle diamonds? Y: No. But it turns ou

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Why Alien s Wont Eat Us Are alien s going to eat us? Thats more of a science fiction question. But science does have something to say here, and sometimes purely imaginative questions are great tools for helping us think about how the real world works

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Stutter ing Ear 用耳朵治口吃 Remember that kid in your grade school class who stutter ed ? Well, he was in good companya whopping three million people in the United States alone are affected by this problem. 还记得小学时班上那个说话结

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The Eye of the Dung Beetle A number of animals, including honeybees and butterflies, use sunlights polarization in their navigation s , but the dung beetle is the first animal ever discovered to use moonlights polarization to guide its travels. Polar

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Surprise at Stonehenge 神奇的巨石阵 Wizard s and aliens aside, actual scientists dont have much to say about Stonehenge. That is, until now. Just recently, a four-thousand-year old gravesite was found within three miles of Stonehenge. The tomb

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The Real Bigfoot 真的有大脚怪吗? Everybody has heard of Bigfoot, the gigantic ape-like creature that supposedly haunts the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Plenty of enthusiasts believe Bigfoot is real, though there isnt any evidence that w

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