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Pet "Soup Kitchen" Attends To Recession-Hit Pets

by Lady Bee

Tiertafel (pet table) has not just saved 6,291 pets from starvation or being euthanized. It has helped to keep 4,028 families together at a bad enough time in their lives.We should be setting up "pet tables" in our economically hard-hit communities as well.

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Frito-Lay Japan's Coffee and Green Tea Snacks Create a Buzz

by Steve Levenstein

Frito-Lay Japan has decided that "Coffee Crisp" should be more than just a pretty name. Their new Caramel Macchiatto and Green Tea Latte flavor corn chips pack two cups of coffee's worth of caffeine into each bag.

Love Cucumbers? Show It and Grow It with Heart Shaped Molds

by Steve Levenstein

Cucumbers shaped to your heart's desire without resorting to a paring knife? That's the idea behind these clear plastic molds that allow your veggies to literally grow into a shape perfect for lovable slicing.

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Pets Provide Many Benefits For College Students

by Lady Bee

In the interest of having something to do, I guess, researchers at Ohio State University found that pets can provide support, companionship, and stress relief for college students who live with their pets. Now more than ever, college students need whatever help they can get to overcome the stresses encountered on the bridge from home to career. Better dogs than drugs.

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How Sweet It Is! Chocolate Beer, Your Sinful Obsession

by Steve Levenstein

Chocolate beer is the latest Japanese entry in the bizarre drinks sweepstakes. Imagine the sinfully sweet combination of rich cocoa and full-bodied beer... and thank Sapporo Brewery for bringing such a delightful nectar to market!

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Gravity Makes For Purity In Ovopur Water

by Must Love Gadgets

Now here's a gadget I wouldn't mind having for my family... It's the Ovopur water purifier from Aquaovo, a Canadian company that specializes in natural purification of water. If you can overcome the initial cost, about $620, life and clean water would become a whole lot simpler.

Pants With More Than One Zipper: Great Idea?

by Cosetta

Patent# US 6789269 dates back to 2004 and concerns Pants With One or More Zippers on The Rear Thereof. For those among us who feel one zipper just doesn’t quite cut it for fashions that need “more cheek”, this may be just the thing. Others may never be convinced, no ifs and or butts about it. Read on and be amazed at the very least and whatever at the very most.

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New Russian Diesel Submarines: Innovative and Very Scary

by M Dee Dubroff

The Russian navy is creating a new diesel submarine named Lada. Although construction of these kind of submarines actually began a few decades ago, the Lada has become known as the navy’s “brightest innovative project.” Read on for more details.

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Live Out Your Rock Star Aspirations Realistically With League Of Rock

by Beth Graddon-Hodgson

What teenager didn't dream of being a rock star? Unfortunately, as most leave their twenties behind, they are forced to face the harsh reality that the rich and famous lifestyle just won't be theirs and move onto a stable career. Toronto's League of Rock ensures that growing up doesn't mean having to leave your rock star aspirations behind completely; while you may never find yourself on MTV's top 100, they will give you the illusion of living out your dreams without the inevitable instability.

Lip Enhancer: Great Idea?

by Cosetta

Have you always wanted pouty lips? Do you secretly feel that sullen is always the way to go? Well, then, consider yourself as having arrived at your destination (wherever that is) with Patent# US 6830590, which is also known in the non plastic-surgical world as a Lip Enhancer. Read on for more vainglorious details.

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Logobama Mania or Separated at Birth?

by Ron Callari

After the meteoric ascendency of Barack Obama from junior senator to leader of the free world, I think one of the lesser known factors of his campaign was instrumental in his success; namely his innovative logo.

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Russian Chemists Develop Composite Material Better than Polyethylene

by M Dee Dubroff

A new composite material developed by Russian chemists resembles polyethylene, but has greatly improved properties as it is much more rigid and better able to resist high temperatures. Read all about this new material’s remarkable components and what they indicate for the fields of science and technology.

New Medical Reform Plan for China

by M Dee Dubroff

China's State Council has promised to spend 850 billion yuan (123 billion U.S. dollars) by 2011 to provide universal medical service to the country's 1.3 billion population. Read more about this long awaited medical reform plan.

A Deadly Glass For Your Bloody Anti-Valentine

by Boomer Babe

Anti Valentine's Day is coming up soon, February 14th to be exact, and I know that some of you are bloody dying to find the perfect gift for the bloody "B" who put the knife through your (bloody) heart. Hopefully, you'll find just the right sentiment to express in one of these bloody glasses designed by Kacper Hamilton.

Pizza Prep and Delivery Unit: Great Idea?

by Cosetta

Patent# US 6858243, also known as the Pizza Preparation and Delivery Method and Unit, involves a method for providing a consumer with a freshly-baked, pizza-type food product by using individually frozen ingredients, combining them and then baking them in less than five minutes in a mobile, compact and autonomous baking/selling unit. Read on and then inform pizza delivery places that may have failed you in the past if they should eat their hearts (or at least their pizza) out.

New Defense Technology for China: Is Everybody Ready?

by M Dee Dubroff

According to a recent white paper, one of China’s long-term goals is to establish a new system of defense-related science, technology and industry, which addresses the needs of both the military and civilian sectors of society. Read on for details.

Apparel-Related Entertainment System: Great Idea?

by Cosetta

Patent# US 6782554 refers to an Apparel-Related Entertainment System that indirectly addresses the issue of how many t-shirts anyone can afford. This patent provides a way to change the slogan on your t-shirt whenever you want or change it back again, if that be your fancy. Think about how much you’ll save in terms of money, hangers and closet space as you read on for more information.

Russian Hemabank Develops New Cell Technology Based on Cord Blood

by M Dee Dubroff

One of the latest developments of the Institute of Stem Cells is the technology for isolating stem cells from cord blood, which was created in cooperation with the Institute of General Genetics of Russian Academy of Sciences. Read all about these exciting scientific breakthroughs in a field where controversy reigns supreme.

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Chinese Create Three New Concepts for Cell Phones

by M Dee Dubroff

This article concerns three really cool innovative concepts for mobile phones, which may or may not be produced in the near future. Suggested by Huawei Technologies, the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in China, they collectively promise at least an interesting read.

President Obama, Please Control Your Telomeres!

by Boomer Babe

The media wants to know how fast our new President, Barack Obama, will age over the next four to eight years, what with the stress of the Presidency. Practically every TV news network has a five-minute feature story on how past presidents have aged showing their pictures "before and after," the grey hair, puffy eyes, jowls, and lots of wrinkles (particularly those worry lines) have set in. And now, scientists know what causes all this to happen to Presidents and other worry warts; it's all about their telomeres.