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I like your version better...

 

ghey! you get caught speeding here in tx and you look at AT LEAST $150...

 

all those things make me want to move there i absolutely hate the city, but it just gets to damn cold up there...

 

thats exactly where i am execpt for the beach scene, but we got lakes. for me there is nothing to do in the city, and yet i can find a million things to do out in the country

 

this might be able to be arranged...look up lake fork. we got some big ol bass in there. i think its one of the best lakes in the country

 

America's Most Toxic Cities, 2011



By Morgan Brennan, Forbes.com
Feb 28, 2011

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During the Revolutionary War Philadelphia served as one of America's first capital cities. These days, however, Philadelphia could be considered the capital of toxicity, since the city and its environs ranked No. 1 on our 2011 Most Toxic Cities list. One big reason: The sprawling Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), including parts of four states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and one county in Maryland), is pocked with more than 50 Superfund sites -- areas no longer in use that contain hazardous waste.
While the East Coast metro, with its old industrial sites, grabbed the top spot, California metropolitan areas claimed four of the 10 spots on our Most Toxic list, primarily due to the chronic air quality problem known as smog.

 

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Fungus turns Amazonian ants into zombies

Darren Osborne for ABC Science Online, ABC March 3, 2011, 3:21 pm

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Researchers combing the rainforests of Brazil have uncovered four new species of fungi that turns ants into zombies.
Although it is not the first time the fungi has been seen affecting ants, the discovery of four distinct species in close proximity highlights the level of biodiversity in the Amazon.
Their study appears online in the journal _PLoS One_.
The research, led by Assistant Professor David Hughes of the University of Pennsylvannia, identified and described the parasitic fungus Ophiocordyceps unliateralis living on four species of carpenter ant (Camponotini sp.) in the Zona da Mata region of Brazil.
Ants become infected when they come into contact with spores released by the fungus. Within a week the ant enters a zombie-like state.
"This so-called zombie or brain-manipulating fungus alters the behaviours of the ant host, causing it to die in an exposed position, typically clinging onto and biting the adaxial surface of shrub leaves," the study authors write.
The fungus then grows out of the head of the ant, releasing spores into the air, which rain down onto unsuspecting ants and the forest floor.
In 2009, Hughes led a team of researchers studying zombie-ants in Indonesia. They found the infected ants consistently attached to leaves 25 centimetres above the ground in an environment with 95 per cent humidity - perfect conditions for the fungus to grow.
In the current study, Hughes and colleagues found each species of fungus was different in size and shape, and adapted to live only in one particular species.
Two of the species of fungus have also adapted to grow secondary spores, doubling their chances of finding a new host.
Limited impact on species

 

We already knew Philly was the #1 shithole in the US .