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    • Touch a light switch, catch a cold, study finds

      Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!

      Someone with a cold may just have left a little drop of virus on the light switch for you to pick up and infect yourself with, researchers found in a real-life look at how colds get passed around. Adults with runny noses leave the virus on about 35 percent of objects they touch, such as telephones, door handles and television controls, the researchers at the University of Virginia reported on Friday.

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    Feeding homeless outlawed

    This is just obscene.

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    5:33 am 7/21/06
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