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It is estimate that as many as 300 of the current 1,800 regional shopping centers may close within the next five years. Consumers have become more value oriented in shopping.
Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food. One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children. Women spend more than $65 million on new cars and trucks, influence 80 percent of all new-car purchases, and will buy 60 percent of new cars in 2000. In an ad for an airline, a passenger leaned over to another, apparently sharing a secret, and said 'I fly sitting in leather.' In translation, it came out as 'I fly naked.' Chicken-man Frank Perdue's slogan, 'It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken,' got terribly mangled in another Spanish translation. A photo of Perdue with one of his birds appeared on billboards all over Mexico with a caption that explained 'It takes a hard man to make a chicken aroused.' An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of the desired 'I Saw the Pope' in Spanish, the shirts proclaimed 'I Saw the Potato.' The American slogan for Salem cigarettes, 'Salem - Feeling Free,' got translated in the Japanese market into 'When smoking Salem, you feel so refreshed that your mind seems to be free and empty.' In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'finger-lickin' good' came out as 'eat your fingers off.' While considered common promotions in the U.S., sweepstakes are prohibited in Belgium and couponing is illegal in Greece. There is a very negative attitude towards life insurance in Spain. It is considered wrong to profit from a spouse's death. It is rude to leave anything on your plate in Norway, Malaysia, or Singapore. It is rude not to in Egypt. Patting a child on the head is a grave offense in Thailand for that is where the sole resides. Crossing your legs and showing the sole of your shoe is a taboo in some Muslim countries. Standing with your hands on your hips is a gesture of defiance in Indonesia, when you shake your head from side to side in Bulgaria or Sri Lanka, you are saying yes. Tonsilitis Jackson has brothers and sisters named Meningitis, Appendicitis and Peritonitis. The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. One day Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck. Individual orcas can be identified by their dorsal fins and saddle patches. These characteristics are unique for each orca just as human fingerprints are all different. Vocalization characteristics are also unique for each individual. The orca is the largest member of the dolphin family, and is not really a whale. Due to its size, however, the orca is frequently included in discussions of whales. When travelling together, resident pods have been observed to breathe in unison. Although it is not known why this occurs, it could be a way of helping the pod keep tabs on one another. In the wild, orcas are thought to live to seventy or eighty years of age. There is some evidence that females live longer than males, and the average life expectancy of male orcas is around forty to fifty years. Orcas reach sexual maturity at about the same age as humans. Orcas are found in every ocean of the world. Flamingos feed with their hook-shaped bill by holding their head upside-down and scooping through mud and shallow water; ridges on their bill act to filter debris. In mid-October 1995, 7 captive bred sandhill cranes flew 800 miles from Idaho to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico ending their first winter migration by following an ultralight aircraft! This project is an attempt to establish new migrations routes for the critically endangered whooping crane, by testing it out on non-endangered sandhills. Some owls have fringes on their primary feathers to enable silent flight. But this isn't so its prey won't hear the owl, but so that the owl can hear its prey! Nova Scotia is Latin for 'New Scotland.' Legend has it that natives of Nova Scotia are called Bluenoses because of indigo that rubbed off the early mariners' mittens. The Canadian province of Nova Scotia leads the world in exporting lobster, wild blueberries, and Christmas trees. Black and green tea drinkers reduce the risk of esophageal cancer, according to a study in shanghai by 50%. A study by the university of chicago medical school showed that long-term tea drinkers reduced their pancreatic cancer risk by 60%. Reported in a 1990 issue of science magazine. If heart disease, cancer, and diabetes were eliminated, the life expectancy for both men and women would leap to 99.2 years. Shigechio isumi, an okinawan fisherman, lived to almost 121 years. The number of individuals who are aged 100+ years was 50,000 in 1994. It is projected that this number will be 110,000 in 2004. In 1900, 75% of the population died before age 65; today there is almost a 75% increase in population by age 65. Bone density: bones lose mineral content and become weaker with age. Control factors are proper calcium and stress exercise. Calories: at age 70 a person needs 500 fewer calories per day to maintain body weight. In the year 2025, the number of americans over 65 will outnumber teenagers by more than two to one. Our current median age is 32, and is projected to be 36 by the turn of the century. In 1776 it was 16. The national institute for health projects that by the year 2040 the average life expectancy will be 86 for men and 91.5 for women. Colon cancer is the second leading cancer in men at age 85 and in women at age 75 An epidemiological anomaly is that japan, with the highest smoking rate, has the lowest lung-cancer rate. The u.s. has the second highest smoking rate with 400,000 related deaths per year compared to japan's 110,186 deaths. The incidence of prostrate cancer exceeds that of all other cancers in men by age 65 and rises to an incidence of greater than 1/100/yr. After age 80. There are more extremely fat people (40% or more above their recommended body weight) in the us than in any other country in the world. Heart disease is the #1 american death threat Life expectancy has increased for all ages. This increase in largely attributable to substantial declines in the number of deaths from heart disease and stroke since the late 1960s. In 1990, more than 31 million americans were over 65 years old, nearly twice the number as in 1960. By 2020, when a large part of the baby boomer generation has passed age 65, there will be more than 50 million older americans. The u.s. spends less than 5% of its health care budget on preventive medicine. he congressional budget office projects that medicare will grow about 10% a year, consuming more than 17% of the budget by the year 3005, up from 12% in 1996. In the u.s., the average price of a day in the hospital is $360, in japan one day its $60. Americans are the most x-rayed, cat-scanned, and operated people on earth, which helps explains why u.s. health care costs are so high. In 1987, if the u.s. had spent the same share of the gnp on health care as our international competitors, we could have saved $158 billion. Only 40% of people in the u.s. are eligible for government funded hospital care. Compare this to 77% for netherlands, 92% for germany, 98% for switzerland, spain, and belgium, 99% for france and austria, and 100% for all other countries. According to a 1990 harvard survey, 60% of people in the us believe that their health-care system needs fundamental change compared to 38% of canadians. Compared to the rest of the world, americans pay the most for healthcare and get the least--30 to 40 million people, two-thirds of them children, are excluded. According to the us. Census bureau, a woman who reaches 50 years and remains free of cancer and heart disease can expect to live to her 91st birthday. An average healthy male who is 65 years today will most likely live to see age 81. Only about 30% of the characteristics of aging are genetically determined. The other 70% are linked to lifestyle. The first book of crosswords was introduced on April 10, 1924 for a steep $1.35 per book and each one came with a freshly sharpened pencil. The publishers, Simon and Schuster, were advised to use an alias for their first run because their advisors were skeptical and thought it might fail, ruining them in the publishing industry. They took the advice and named themselves Plaza Printing Company. Within three months, book sales reached an astonishing 40,000! Needless to say, the editions of crossword puzzle books that followed bore their real name. Horace and Shaq wear new shoes every game Shaq wears a size 22EEE shoe The 345 billion Oreo cookies sold to date would fill up the world's largest freight train, consisting of 660 freight cars, more than 45 times. The St. Louis Arch (630 feet) is 15,120 Oreo cookies high. The Golden Gate Bridge (4,200 feet) is 28,800 Oreo cookies long. If every Oreo cookie ever made were stacked on top of each other (more than 345 billion...), the pile would reach to the moon and back more than five times. Then again, if placed side-by-side, they would encircle the earth 381 times at the equator. If every Oreo cookie eaten in a year were dunked, cows would have to work overtime to produce the extra 42.2 million gallons of milk needed to accommodate the extra dunkers. In order to keep up with this voluminous demand, the Oreo cookie recipe calls for 18 million pounds of cocoa and 47 million pounds of creme filling. An Oreo cookie is 29% creme, 71% cookie. The Oreo cookie has been America's most popular cookie since it was introduced in 1912. More than 345 billion Oreo cookies have been consumed to date. More than 7.5 billion Oreo cookies are consumed each year, which comes out to 625 million per month and 20.5 million per day. It takes approximately 190,400 pounds of milk to make 40,000 pounds of butter. You could butter approximately 2.5 million pieces of toast with a CME Butter contract (if you used one teaspoon of butter for each slice). 40,000 pounds of butter would make 80,000 batches of chocolate chip cookies. If each batch yields approximately 30 cookies, that's 2.4 million cookies! Alaska's State Bird: Alaska Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus alascensis Swarth) It can change it's color from light brown to snow white. The willow ptarmigan was named Alaska's state bird in 1955. Alaska's State Flower: Forget-me-not. The search for gold played a major role in shaping the history of Alaska, from the discovery of gold in Juneau to the great gold rush at Nome. Gold was named the state mineral in 1968. Alaska has a large deposit of jade, including an big mountain filled with dark green jade on the Seward Peninsula. Jade is the state's gem. The evergreen is found throughout the southeastern and central areas of Alaska. 'PHYTHOLOGNYRRH' spells 'Turner' phonetically: Phyh as in phythsic olo as in colonel gn as in gnat yrrh as in myrrh A woman called Mum-Zi was a grand mother when she was 17. She was in Cheif AkKiri's Harem on the island of Calabar. She joined the harem when she was less than eight years old, she had a baby when she was 8 years and 4 months old, and her daughter became a mothe at 8 too! A pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold. (Because feathers are weighed by 'avoirdupois' weight, which has 16 ounces to a pound, while gold is weighed in 'troy' weight, which only has 12 ounces to a pound). (This is a fact from the 30's, so it might not be true now, although, with the rise in population, it is probably even more true!) If someone got murdered at midnight, and everyone who knew about it told 2 other people within 12 miuites, and _they_ told 2 people within 12 minuites, etc., etc., then everyone on earth would know about it before midnight! Shakespear's daughter was illiterate. If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with _any_ number you will always find the original number in the result! Five letter-blocks contain a total of 30 letters. There are 620,448,401,735,259,439,369,000 diferent combinations of the five blocks. At the rate of one conbination per second, it would take one person 1,967,428,975,879,120 _years_ to arrange the blocks int all the possible conbinations! If 1,800,000,000 (one billion eight million) people helped him, it would still take 1,093,016 years! Depending on where they live, wolves live mainly on the meat from such animals as deer, moose, elk or buffalo. An average adult female wolf in Minnesota weighs 60 to 80 pounds. Males usually weigh 80 to 90 pounds. Pups weigh about 1 pound when they are born (in the spring), but grow quickly. They reach adult size by 9 months of age and will run with the pack their first winter. Wolves live in family groups called packs. A pack is usually made up of a male leader (alpha male), a female leader (alpha female), their pups and a few other adult wolves who are the older brothers and sisters. The pack works together to hunt for food and to take care of the pups. John Sime from Alabama Zoophobia- Fear of animals. Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat. Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods. Xerophobia- Fear of dryness. Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners. Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft. Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape. Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing. Verminophobia- Fear of germs. Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women. Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination. Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating. Trypanophobia- Fear of injections. Triskadekaphobia- Fear of the number 13. Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned. Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.
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