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How Coca-Cola influenced the way we imagine Santa Claus
2015-12-29 07:07:27| Beverages - Topix.net
The modern day image of Santa was crafted in 1931. Coca-Cola worked with artist, Haddon Sundblom to create what we recognize now as the big, jolly man in the red suit.
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Climate awareness and the economy influenced Obama's rejection of Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When a Canadian company first proposed building the Keystone XL oil pipeline in 2008, Barack Obama was a presidential candidate running to end wars, climate change was a fringe issue to many people and the nation was entering a devastating recession that would send the unemployment rate soaring to 10%. But the politics of climate and oil shifted dramatically in the intervening years, and President Obama's announcement Friday that the controversial pipeline through the U.S. heartland "would not...
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14 wild weather events last year influenced by climate change
2015-11-05 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: New scientific analysis shows the fingerprints of man-made climate change on 14 extreme weather events in 2014, hitting every continent but Antarctica. Dozens of scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and across the world examined 28 strange weather conditions last year to see if global warming partly increased their likelihood or their strength. In a series of papers in a 180-page, peer-reviewed report, the scientists spotted some effects of climate change in half...
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Over one-third of car sales influenced by children
2015-09-09 09:29:45| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
According to a new study by car sales and comparison publication and web service Auto Trader, 78% of parents surveyed claim that their offspring pressured them into buying a new car and that for 37%, the kids then went on to have a say in what type of car mommy and daddy ended up coming home with. The study of 1000 UK parents and children found that dads are more susceptible to pressure than moms and that when turning on the charm or throwing a car-focused tantrum, kids are most likely to get their own way when it comes to deciding on the car's color.
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Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology
2015-05-11 21:17:11| Biotech - Topix.net
For the first time in a lab, researchers at the National Institutes of Health found evidence supporting the commonly held belief that people with certain physiologies lose less weight than others when limiting calories. Study results published May 11 in Diabetes Lead researchers Drs.
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