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Research: Marijuana is not a major gateway drug

The results could have implications for drug policy, the study authors argue. "Employment in young adulthood can protect people by 'closing' the marijuana gateway," said lead author Karen Van Gundy, in a news release, "so over-criminalizing youth marijuana use might create more serious problems if it interferes with later employment opportunities."
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Older people enjoy reading negative stories about young

Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own self-esteem, according to a new study.
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Study: Kids change how women think, react

According to new study from Ipsos OTX, affluent women who have children act and react differently to nearly everything. According to researchers, women with children have different priorities, are more likely to sacrifice something for a child and have different ideas of the type of lifestyle they want.
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Squatting is better than sitting when pooping

That may sound like a bunch of Internet quackery, but there's now some empirical evidence for the claim that defecation posture affects your body. The more extreme assertions about squatting—that it prevents cancer, for example—remain untested. But when it comes to hemorrhoids—a painful swelling of the veins in the anal canal that affects half of all Americans—new research suggests that you may want to get your butt off the toilet.
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Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds

But even after controlling for nearly all imaginable variables - socioeconomic status, level of physical activity, number of close friends, quality of social support and so on - the researchers (a six-member team led by psychologist Charles Holahan of the University of Texas at Austin) found that over a 20-year period, mortality rates were highest for those who had never been drinkers, second-highest for heavy drinkers and lowest for moderate drinkers.
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Younger kids are being misdiagnosed with ADHD

Morrill explains that the study shows that children born just after the kindergarten cutoff date were 25 percent less likely to be diagnosed as having ADHD than children born just before the cutoff date. “This indicates that there are children who are diagnosed (or not) because of something other than underlying biological or medical reasons.
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Ancient Greek sculptures were actually vibrant with color

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If you looked closely enough, with scientific equipment and rigor, many sculptures started to look like a coloring book just waiting to be painted in. Lab analysis of the microscopic grains of pigment that had survived here or there on many sculptures, along with close examination of the faded tints that had survived intact on another few, supplied the colors of the paint
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NASCAR Noise Levels Pose Hearing Risks for Fans, Crews, Drivers

They found that the OSHA eight-hour limit was exceeded in less than a minute for a driver during practice, within several minutes for his team members, and in less than one hour for spectators during the race. What this means is that a driver's noise dose was 50-900 times higher than the allowable occupational daily noise dose set by the federal government, the researchers reported.
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Suicide rates decrease in states that support presidential loser

"Sure, supporting the loser stinks, but if everyone around you supported the loser, it isn't as bad because you feel connected to those around you. In other words, it is more comforting to be a Democrat in Massachusetts or Rhode Island when George W. Bush was re-elected than to be the lonely Democrat in Idaho or Oklahoma."
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70% of high school seniors have had intercourse

"The fact is there are a lot of kids out there having sex," said Diane Aye, epidemiologist with the state Department of Public Health, which conducted the survey with the state Department of Education.
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Belly bulge is deadly, even if your weight is normal

One of the largest studies to examine the dangers of abdominal fat suggests men and women with the biggest waistlines have twice the risk of dying over a decade compared to those with the smallest tummies. Surprisingly, bigger waists carry a greater risk of death even for people whose weight is "normal" by the body mass index, or BMI, a standard measure based on weight and height.
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Ovulating women unconsciously buy sexier clothing to outdo rivals

Ovulating women unconsciously buy sexier clothes, says new research from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. The study finds that ovulating women unconsciously dress to impress -- doing so not to impress men, but to outdo rival women during the handful of days each month when they are ovulatin
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