One in five Americans who die each year, die from tobacco use; the annual American death toll attributed to tobacco use is about 430,700. The total economic cost of tobacco is 97.2 billion dollars per year, or about 363.00 dollars per American citizen. (Source:
American Lung Association)... posted on Jan 17 2003, 943 reads

After any disaster, people and resources organize without planning into coordinated, purposeful activity. Everything happens quickly and a little miraculously. These self-organized efforts create effective responses long before official relief agencies can even make it to the scene. But organizational theorists have had a hard time explaining or replicating this concept. Now, Margaret Wheatley ... posted on Jan 03 2003, 1,025 reads

Average person in Britian walks 191 miles every year.... posted on Jan 01 2003, 1,334 reads

The bathroom medicine cabinet is one of the worst places to keep medicines. The heat and moisture of the bathroom are just the conditions required to alter medication chemistry, making them weaker and possibly ineffective, and in some cases, toxic. A cool dry area away from sunlight and children is optimal. (Source: The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)... posted on Dec 19 2002, 880 reads

Malcolm Gladwell, in 'The Tipping Point', notes that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave. They are social epidemics. The moment they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the tipping point,... posted on Dec 17 2002, 880 reads

... posted on Dec 16 2002, 756 reads

Nearly 13 million people in Southern Africa face extreme food shortages between now and April 2003. Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia are particularly affected. Donor countries need to fund a major emergency food aid operation immediately. ... posted on Dec 11 2002, 965 reads

Based on their genetic sequences, people are 99.9% the same. (Source: Bill Clinton, 2000 State of the Union speech)... posted on Dec 07 2002, 864 reads

You share your birthday with more than 16 million others in the world.... posted on Nov 30 2002, 972 reads

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monument.... posted on Nov 29 2002, 2,094 reads