WORLD STORIES - 10/01/2018
Selective breeding has made the fruit we eat so full of sugar, Melbourne Zoo has had to wean its animals off it... at the zoo, keepers found fruit-heavy diets were making some animals obese – and rotting their teeth..
theage.com.au
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Trump On Kim Jong Un: ‘He Wrote Me Beautiful Letters. We Fell In Love.’.
inquisitr.com
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Brexit is already costing the public purse £500m a week, new research has found – a stark contrast to the £350m “dividend” promised by the Leave campaign..
theguardian.com
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Kavanaugh's Yale classmate: Brett once started a fight that ended with our friend in jail.
washingtonexaminer.com
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'You can't ... look away': Halifax cartoonist on his image of Lady Justice with a hand over her mouth.
cbc.ca
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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Is An American Hero.
huffingtonpost.com
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Voters Are Trading Honesty for Loyalty - Novel experiments about loyalty indicate that people will overlook dishonesty if it benefits their group. Those who lied (and benefited their team) rated themselves as more ethical than those who told the truth, finds a new study..
bloomberg.com
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Americans have more faith in legislatures where women are equally represented, suggests new research which found that the presence of women in a decision-making body increases the public’s perception of that body’s legitimacy, especially when that group makes decisions that impact women..
news.vanderbilt.edu
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Researchers have evidence that the plastic trays in security lines are a haven for respiratory viruses. The trays likely harbor more of these pathogens than the flushing button on the airport toilets..
npr.org
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