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Enter the nicotini: Smoking ban leads to tobacco-infused drink

Call it a liquid cigarette because this drink comes complete with the
nicotine rush and tobacco aftertaste found in a pack of Camels. These tobacco-spiked
martinis are being served up for die-hard smokers who don’t want to leave
their barstools and go outside to light up.

from
the Sun-Sentinel via Fark

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off
the assembly line Wednesday, 70 years after Adolf Hitler’s government introduced
Germans to a two-door passenger car that became an icon around the globe.

Workers painstakingly crafted the final car: a baby blue version marked
No. 21,529,464 that will go to a museum in Wolfsburg, Germany, home of
VW headquarters.  from the New York Times

Self-aware or empathetic people are more likely to catch
the yawns, say US researchers.
Studies have shown
that 40-60% of people who watch videos or hear about yawning end up
joining in.

Contagious yawning may have helped our ancestors to coordinate times
of activity and rest. "It’s important that all group members be
ready to do the same thing at the same time."

Excuse me while I take a nap.from RedNova

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) A local literary icon will be
honored next month in a way usually reserved for sports figures:
a bobblehead doll.

The first 1,000 fans at the Aug. 21 game between the Lowell Spinners and
Williamsport Crosscutters of the Class A New York-Penn League will receive
bobbing likenesses of Jack Kerouac.

The eight-inch doll features Kerouac
holding a pen and notebook and standing on a copy of "On The Road," his
best-known work.

from Boston.com thanks to The Redhead