2014-07

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259 Hiroshima atomic bomb attraction more popular than ever

Almost 70 years after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ending Wor...
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258 Can meditation really slow aging?

It's seven in the morning on the beach in Santa Monica, California. A few meters back from the water's edge, a handful o...
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257 Introducing the world’s next tallest building — which also cleans the air

Imagine a skyscraper that cleans the air. You won't have to wait long -- two will soon be built in China. The world's ta...
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256 Starbucks Offers Online College Program to Workers

Starbucks is rolling out a program that would allow its workers to earn an online college degree at Arizona State Univer...
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255 Which two things cause employees the most stress?

80 percent of U.S. workers have at least one complaint about their job, which is lower than it was last year. Long commu...
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254 Recession ‘led to 10,000 suicides’

The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, according to figures from UK res...
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253 Over 10,000 dementia sufferers went missing in 2013

More than 10,000 people suffering from dementia went missing for various periods of time in 2013, the National Police Ag...
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252 Good Posture When Sitting Prevents Back Problems And Crippling ‘Sitting Disease’

For those of us who are deskbound at work, we spend at least eight hours each day planted firmly in our office chairs. D...
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251 Android and Windows to get ‘kill switch’

Google and Microsoft will add a "kill-switch" feature to their Android and Windows phone operating systems. The feature ...
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250 10 things Japan does better than anywhere else

Advertising agency Dentsu recently released the results of its annual Japan Brand Survey, in which it asks people from a...