| Olympic outlook: Sochi and Vancouver had mild temps. Pyeonchang won't |
| Pyeongchang, the South Korean city hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics, is so cold that audiences walked out of a rehearsal for Friday's opening ceremony. (The wind chill was 7 below zero.) These Winter Olympics will easily be the coldest since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, experts say. Team USA will wear high-tech heated parkas to the opening ceremony. Spectators will receive heating pads, a blanket and a raincoat. That's intense. But those temps won't impress our friends in Albany, N.Y., or Des Moines. The wind chill there is about the same. |
| Lawmakers agree: We shouldn't pay their sex settlements |
| "Offenders, themselves, will have to pay." Thats' how Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., summed up a House measure passed Tuesday that says taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill when a member of Congress has to pay a sexual harassment settlement. The bipartisan effort now heads to the Senate. The legislation comes after the #MeToo wave hit Congress, washing out lawmakers like Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, who dipped into taxpayer funds to deal with accusers. The House also amended its code of conduct to ban sex between representatives and the staffers they supervise. |
| A lesson on winning the lottery: Call a lawyer immediately |
| A New Hampshire woman is so rich after hitting a Powerball jackpot that she wants to stay anonymous. But she made one costly mistake : She signed her real name to the back of her winning ticket. "Jane Doe" filed suit against the New Hampshire Lottery Commission to let her keep her name private so she can go to the grocery store like an average person. (News flash: As the winner of a $560 million jackpot you can never be "an average person" again. But we digress ...) The lottery commission says sorry, not sorry. The woman has not yet claimed her massive prize, and the lawsuit says the fight for anonymity is costing her a fortune in interest. Pun intended? |
| Tech companies are experimenting on our children right in front of our faces. |
| There's a scary cycle of technology addiction that was created on purpose by tech companies, according to some former executives of Google and Facebook. Addictive "social-validation feedback loops" were no accident, but now some of those who created it want technology giants to make their products less addictive, particularly for kids. |
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| French fries, yes. Hot tea, no. |
| McDonald's french fries might lead to a cure for baldness. No, not by eating them. Researchers at Japan's Yokohama National University used a chemical found in the fries to grow hair follicles on mice. The findings could lead to a potential strategy for hair regeneration. A different study shares some other food/body news: Drinking hot tea, when combined with heavy alcohol and tobacco use, increases the risk of esophageal cancer fivefold. We are both terrified and intrigued by what we've learned here. |
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