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US Deep Freeze

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USA is freezing, with millions of Americans facing another bitter blast of unseasonably cold air, due to an Arctic blast from the Polar Vortex.

This arctic blast has been responsible for 17 deaths over the past several days. While last week’s freeze focused on the Rockies and the Plains, the Midwest, Northeast and South shivered overnight.

City Images spoke with people in Buffalo and Erie, Pennsylvania, who are literally buried under a couple of feet of snow.

Vaping e-cigarettes

Dictionaries are calling vaping the act of smoking an e-cigarette. Vaping has gone mainstream and it has become the word of the year, according to Oxford.

The usage of the word vape and related terms has shown a marked increase due to the growing public debate on the public dangers and the need for regulation.

The word, which was first used in the 1980s, can be employed as a verb to mean inhaling and exhaling the vapour produced by electronic cigarettes but also as a noun to refer to the devices themselves.

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Benefits of kissing

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The human oral cavity contains a number of different habitats, including the teeth, gingival sulcus, tongue, cheeks, hard and soft palates, and tonsils, which are colonized by bacteria. The oral microbiome is comprised of over 600 prevalent taxa at the species level, with distinct subsets predominating at different habitats.

What does all this information lead to and what do its findings tell us? Kissing exchanges millions of bacteria. In just seconds, a kiss transfers up to 80 million bacteria, according to a new study published in the journal Microbiome.

NORTHEAST STORM

WEATHER SUMMARY FOR SOUTHEASTERN NY...NORTHEASTERN NJ AND SOUTHERN CT

RAIN WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT...WITH AN ISOLATED GUSTY THUNDERSTORM
ALSO POSSIBLE MAINLY FOR EASTERN LONG ISLAND AND CONNECTICUT...AS A
COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. THE RAIN WILL COME TO AN END FROM WEST TO
EAST LATER THIS EVENING...AND BY THE SECOND HALF OF TONIGHT THE
ENTIRE AREA WILL BE DRY AS THE COLD FRONT PUSHES TO THE EAST.
THERE WILL ALSO BE SOME CLEARING LATE TONIGHT. COLD AIR WILL MOVE IN
BEHIND THE FRONT...WITH LOWS RANGING FROM 25 TO 30 INLAND...TO LOWER
30S ALONG THE COAST.

Saving Lima's Street Girls

Melody Mills a CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College, B.A. in psychology and political science, 2014 sees potential in the "street girls" of Lima, Peru, despite their tenuous circumstances.

Living on the capital's streets, the girls are exploited as child labor, and drug addiction many sniff cheap glue called Teracol is common.

This Week in Her and History

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This Week in History, Nov 16 - Nov 22

Nov 16, 1532
Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa. On November 16, 1532, Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lures Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's honor and then opens fire on the unarmed Incans. Pizarro's men massacre the Incans and capture Atahualpa, forcing him to convert to Christianity before eventually killing him.

Nov 17, 1558

Panama 2019

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Ruben Blades says he will once again be running for president of Panama. He says this decision to run in 2019, stems from a vision of his country's long-term solutions, which require rewriting codes and renewing diagrams necessary for the administration of the public good, efficiently and transparently. Moreover, he insists it requires a change in national attitude that includes a return to self-love, the love of country and concern for its future.

On Line in New York City

New Yorkers have been on line since before there was online—for nearly a century, at least.

They are so prominently on line, in fact, that those of us in the hinterland know it’s a way to identify New Yorkers by the way they talk. Not by their pronunciation, but by their words. If instead of waiting in line or standing in line, you wait or stand on line, you must be from New York—the city, that is, and neighboring New Jersey.

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Crazy Fresh Chinese

Weibo is China’s popular microblog site. After visiting Ningbo, Shanghai and Hangzhou, some of China's oldest cities, with rich histories dating to 4800 BC., Roberto Soto found a site online that wants to help Americans, who may be trying to learn Mandarin and Chinese who are trying to learn English.

Living longer

While aging is inevitable, a significant proportion of Asia’s population that is living longer and well into their later years has never been greater. China’s Bapan Village is also known as Longevity Village and boats of many residents who live past 100 years.

Most people think it’s the genes, but the data don’t support it. Longevity Village menus include vegetables in all three meals, even breakfast. Their food groups are fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, legumes, and fish, maintained a healthy diet, were active, and didn’t smoke.