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97% of drug deaths from legal drugs-=-
Tobacco
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Alcohol & drunk driving
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Bad reactions to prescription drugs
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
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Britain’s police chief: CCTV does not cut crime
“Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer.”
–timesonline.co.uk
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List: The world’s best inventions weren’t made for profit
The internet, computer, modern electricity, phones, penicillin, lightbulb (Göbel had it first!), radio & almost everything else through state funding of science & university research.
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Speed Vitrification At Low Temperatures - Public Disclosure To Prevent Patenting
Description: A low-temperature liquid based method of preserving organs, lifeforms, & dead lifeforms…
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“We northerners want to believe slavery mostly profited the South. That’s backwards: for over 200 years the North practiced slavery¹, then bankrolled southern slavery², & then sat on those profits for yet another century - with interest - before finally fighting the civil war.”
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What happens when you get out of school during a recession? This: no one’s had the time to prove who’s better so they’re hired completely randomly. Soon the inept have long job historys & are in charge. (The smart retire or do something with their lives.)
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pbs.org: “a researcher at WFU broke new ground in medical technology when he successfully implanted seven patients with bladders grown entirely in a laboratory.”
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