Amazing - category readings

The misery begins when blood alcohol levels start to fall. Some experts to believe the hangover is a "kind of mini withdrawal," says Robert Swift, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University and director of research at the Providence Veterans Adminstration Medical Center. Because alcohol is a sedative, your body reacts by releasing various neurochemicals to stimulate the brain. These chemicals cause a rapid [.....]

Sleep is one of the body's most mysterious processes. The idea of sleeping well conjures up restful images of fluffy pillows, comfortable blankets, and minimal activity. However, many people find sleep elusive. And the more sleep we lose, the worse our sleep problems get. Many of us are not even aware that we are sleep deprived. But sleep deprivation is a serious problem - getting insufficient sleep [.....]

FYI: Every 100 minutes another teenager will commit suicide. More than 32,000 people in the United States die by suicide. It is the country's 8th leading cause of death, and is often characterized as a response to a single event or set of circumstances. However, unlike popular conceptions, suicide is a much more involved phenomenon. The factors that contribute to any particular suicide are diverse and complex, so our efforts to understand [.....]

Choose a hand. Traditionally, a woman's left hand and a man's right hand should be read, but some schools of palmistry hold that anyone's non-dominant hand sheds light on a person's natural persona while the dominant hand indicates one's choices in terms of how they've developed their personality and talents. Determine the hand shape. Each hand shape is associated with certain character traits. The length of the palm is measured [.....]

- In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
- Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
- Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water [.....]

- Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
- The term "bank teller" originated in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when banks began hiring low-paid workers to "tell" throngs of frantic depositors that their money was gone.
- The brand name "Jelly Belly" was created in 1982 after Nancy Reagan made a much-publicized quip about her husband's 20-pound weight gain. [.....]

A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding on the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported.
After clinging on to the plane's wing for the entire 1,300 km flight to Vnukovo Airport, the boy, named Andrey, collapsed on the tarmac.
His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first [.....]