Violent Deaths in US
	You hear every day about the increasing obesity rate in US and its accompanying metabolic syndromes (from heart disease to diabetes), which has turned into the first cause of death in the country. Heart disease is the first cause of death amongst Americans, while diabetes, the fourth (the second cause is smoking and the third non-smoking related cancers). But violent death still takes an important toll. In 2005, 15,962 Ameri ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Some Real Facts about Native Americans
	Their legends say that they were created from earth, water and stars. DNA says they came from Siberia to what is now Alaska, Canada and US, through a land bridge called Behringia, about 15,000 years ago. Older western movies depicted them as wild and cruel. But in fact, they were victims of the intrusion in their territory of the greediest predator they ever faced: the White Man. The Native Americans were often called Red Skins. The n ... [read more >>]
	12 January 2008, 03:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

EA Partners: Europe is More Creative. Americans Want the Cash!
	Cultural issues have always surrounded development houses – the Japanese ar ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 13:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Are One Third of the American Football Players Gay?
	You cannot even guess from where does the surprise come – in this case from the "straightest" and most "macho" game of all, the American Football. A new research made amongst former high-school American Football players revealed that over a third of them stated of having had homosexual sex. 19 out of 47 male subjects, aged 18-23, participated in sexual "activities" with other men, from kissing to mutual mastur ... [read more >>]
	31 October 2007, 00:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Americans Have Their Own Hackers to Fight The Chinese, Russians etc
	Assessing the threat is never an easy thing to do and doing it with promptitude is even harder. Cyber-attacks have been something a lot of countries have been fearing with the Internet advancing at such a high speed. But only recently have a lot of scary possibilities popped up. And I’m saying recently and not pointing to a certain time period, because nobody knows for sure when these possibilities appeared. I guess that governme ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 08:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Abraham Lincoln Had a Lopsided Face And Strabismus
	We all have a good side. The problem is when the other side is horrible. Now, a new research has confirmed this in the case of President Abraham Lincoln. Laser scans of a bronze and a plaster copy of two life masks of Lincoln's face, belonging to the Chicago History Museum, show the 16th president's degree of facial asymmetry. "Life masks were in vogue in the 1860s. Lincoln cooperated with sculptors to make them twic ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 12 Main Issues That Kill Americans
	The 9/11 event killed about 3,000 Americans. Since then, over 10 million Americans have died not because of age-related issues, most of them from causes that might have been prevented. 1. Heart disease killed between 2000-2005 3,119,142 Americans. Cases of death caused by heart disease are related to the obesity pandemics and metabolic syndrome that accompanies it. In 25 years the obesity rate doubled in US (reaching 33% and some say t ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 14:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Japanese Have Higher Self-Esteem than the Americans
	East Asians, like the Chinese and Japanese, may look like little yellow humble persons, self-effacing and with low self-esteem compared to the Americans, but a new research showed that this is just a cover. Psychologists employing new methods compared pools of university students from the three countries, made of over 500 persons, discovering that automatic self-esteem was strongly positive among students from all the three nations men ... [read more >>]
	08 June 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

When White British Prove to Be Native Americans
	Few months ago, British geneticists discovered Black African genes amongst White British people. And it was not about recent immigrants from Africa or Caribbean but ancestors older than 300 years. But Blacks were first recorded in Britain in the Roman troops defending Hadrian's Wall. Now DNA testing has discovered British descendants of Native Americans arrived in the UK centuries ago as slaves, translators or tribal re ... [read more >>]
	04 May 2007, 20:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia