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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 [...]

July 30 — Former U.S. fighter pilots held prisoner by Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War can’t collect compensation from seized Iraqi money that President George W. Bush set aside to rebuild that country, a U.S. judge said.
The former fighter pilots had been awarded [...]

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
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Some cigarettes have a “kick” containing 35 times more “freebase” nicotine – the most addictive form – than others, researchers have found. The findings could help rate the addictiveness of different brands, they say.
The amount of freebase nicotine in cigarette smoke increases as the alkalinity, or pH, increases. This factor can be influenced by the [...]