>> Election years create natural disasters? “Disaster declarations are presidential acts, which are undertaken at the chief executive’s discretion…. It’s hard not to conclude that during a typical election year, the threshold for a disaster seems to be set somewhat lower.”

>> Down with Prozac and Paxil? “The antidepressant Prozac and related drugs are no better than placebo in treating all but the most severely depressed patients, according to a damaging assessment of the latest generation of antidepressants.”

>> Down with blow jobs, round 2? “The number of tongue, mouth and throat cancers due to the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV), which can also cause cervical cancer in women, rose by about a third from 1973 to 2004, say researchers.”

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