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Brooks Brothers, not a place we would normally associate with cutting-edge technology, has introduced a scanning system that, in 12 seconds, scans 200,000 data points on your body, resulting in true clothing customization – at a more affordable price.... posted on Aug 31 2002, 1,470 reads

At age 9, Melissa Poe wrote a letter to then President Bush which, through her own efforts, was reproduced on over 250 donated billboards across the country. The response to her plea for help was so overwhelming that Poe established Kids For A Cleaner Environment (Kids F.A.C.E.) in 1989. There are now 300,000 members of Kids FACE worldwide and is the world's largest youth environmental organizatio... posted on Aug 30 2002, 641 reads

The teaching of Vipassana meditation in a correctional facility was tried first in Jaipur, India in 1975. In 1994, the first 10 day meditation course was taught in India's biggest prison, the Tihar jail in the capital New Delhi, house to about 10,000 inmates. It is now spreading throughout the world with very positive results.... posted on Aug 29 2002, 868 reads

A study by researchers at Stanford University shows that elephants are able to sense messages up to 20 miles away from other elephants stomping their feet. ... posted on Aug 28 2002, 1,499 reads

35% of all household water goes to tending yards.... posted on Aug 27 2002, 962 reads

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In 1957, when economist John Galbraith described the United States as The Affluent Society, the average per-person income, expressed in today's dollars, was 8 thousand. Today, the figure is 16 thousand. In spite of that doubling in real income, the number of people who are "very happy" has declined from 35% in 1957 to 30% today.... posted on Aug 24 2002, 1,214 reads