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BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:36 am

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:04 am

Consumers file more complaints about cell phones than about any other industry,according to the Council of better Business Bureaus.The biggest Gripe: Service contracts that require customers to pay up to $250 to switch to another carrier.

The Washington Post

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:33 am

A maple tree gives the most sap when it is thirty to forty years old.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:17 am

The hot new trend in wilderness experience is "luxury camping", in which campers pay about $600 a night-plus $110 per person for food-for a heated tent with electric and artwork on the walls,a group butler to build fires,and a chef.Guest "only sorta kinda want to rough it," said Terre Short,general manager of the Paws Up resort in Montana.

Los Angeles Times

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:38 am

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:44 am

Of the 4,000 musicians who fled New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina,only a third have returned.

The Washington Post

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:28 pm

The most polluted air in America can be found in Arvin,California,in the San Joaquin Valley,where smog from Los Angeles and San Francicco is trapped between the mountains. On 100-drgree summer days,says resident Irma Garza,"you go outside and can hardly breathe.You can't send your kids out to play.

Associated Press

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:49 pm

The Boston Red Sox have replaced the New York Yankees as the most popular team in baseball, as measured by crowd size on the road.The first-place Sox are averaging 39,136 in road attendance,about 1,300 more than the Yankees.

USA Today

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:32 am

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have created a shortage of bullets,affecting police departments across the nation,which are cutting back on live-fire training. U.S. soldiers are now firing 1 billion bullets per year.

Associated Press

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:22 pm

With homes and subdivisions spreading into exurbia and rural areas,nearly 25 percent of U.S. families live in homes with no access to hydrants.if these homes suffer a fire,they must hope that pumper trucks have enough water to extinquish the blaze.

USA Today

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:02 am

In 1968,the average length of a candidate's sound bite on TV newscast was 42 seconds,according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs.Now it is only eight seconds

Time

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:05 pm

Under pressure from the tourism industry,11 states now require public-schoolboards to start school no earlier than late August or early September,reversing a trend toward earlier starts. Tourism interest say that when school open their doors in early or mid-August, it discourages family vacations and depletes restaurants and resorts of student workers.

USA Today

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:57 pm

A Connecticut businessman is building a 50,900-square-foot house in West Hartford.Aronald Chase's new home will contain a 4,900 square-foot game room,a 103 seat movie theater,a music annex,an observatory,and 13 bathrooms.it will be slightly bigger than Bill Gates' home in Washington state,and 20 times the size of the average America's home.

The Hartford Courant

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:31 pm

The number of hunters in the U.S. declined 10 percent between 1996 and 2006,from 14 million to about 12.5 million, new figures show.The primary reasons for the drop-off expertts say,are the loss of hunting land to urbanization and the continued movement of people from rural ares to cities and suburbs.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:23 pm

If China's growth continues at its current pace,its consumer market will be the world's second largest by 2015.The Chinese already eat 32 percent of the world's rice,use 47 percent of the cement,and smoke one out of every three cigaretts.

Associated Press

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:51 am

The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:30 am

The proportion of U.S. presidents who were lawyers fell from 76 percent through the 19th century to 39 percent in the 20th century.But among the current crop of presidential contenders,the six with the best poll numbers are all lawyers.

USA Today

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:48 am

More than 100 state and local officials in New Jersey have been convicted of corruption charges in the past five years.
Last week 11 more officials,including two state legislators and two mayors were charged with taking bribes and other offenses.

Associated Press

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:54 am

Only 25 percent of the nation's 3 million teachers are men--a 40-year low.In elementary schools,it's only 9 percent.Educators say men are being scared away from the profession by low salaries and fears that they will be accused of being pedophiles if they even pat a student on the arm.

Newsweek

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:30 am

The anemometer is an instrument which measures the force, velocity, or pressure of the wind.