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briefme a snapshot of the world we live in Detox demystified Detox diets are "nonsense," according to a British researcher. They promise to help you shed weight Digital birds will fly The world's most popular computer game will become live attractions for children next year when the first Angry Birds playgrounds appear in Finland. The developer of the Angry Birds app, found on mobile devices such as iPhones and tablet computers, has announced that two Finnish towns will get the first playgrounds kitted out with equipment inspired by the game's characters, after it signed a global deal with playground equipment manufacturer Lappset. Source: Reuters Multi-million dollar medicine Patients at a New York City hospital are getting billed for tens of millions of dollars because of a computer error. It turns out the company that prepares the bills had mistakenly put the invoice number in the space where the invoice amount should go. The billing company is telling patients to ignore the multimillion-dollar bills. It says it will send out corrected ones. Source: AP Show you care and yawn When your friend stifles a yawn as you chat, don't be offended. Instead, take it as a compliment. For, far from being a sign of boredom, yawning may signal empathy. Their results showed that race and gender had no effect on whether the uncontrollable urge to yawn was passed on. But how well the two people knew each other did. A reciprocal yawn was most likely to occur among family members, then friends, then acquaintances. The phenomenon was least common among strangers, the journal PLoS ONE reports. Source: DAILY MAIL Goodwill gaff Charity workers in the US are hunting through piles of donated clothes at an Iowa warehouse hoping to find US$13,000 (NZ$16,600) that an elderly man says he mistakenly left in the pocket of a suit he gave to a Goodwill store. The 80-year-old Illinois man notified Goodwill of the Heartland of his mistake. Reportedly the man's wife has cancer and they had been using the money to offset her medical expenses. Source: AP Bedbugs bite Bedbugs, unwashed sheets and dirty toilets are among the biggest hygiene fears of Kiwi travellers, a survey has revealed. The Travelbug survey of 11,000 New Zealanders, conducted by the Trade Me website, asked people their destination preferences and hotel habits. 32 percent revealed their biggest hotel hygiene fear was unwashed sheets, followed by an infestation of bedbugs. Source: Travelbug and purge your body of chemicals that are poisoning your body and mind. But the only thing that detox products will help you lose is money, a British researcher says. David Bender, an emeritus professor of nutritional biochemistry, says the body is perfectly capable of detoxing itself without any extra help. He says the claims made about detoxing are at best unfounded and more likely undeniably false. He says some detox methods may even be dangerous. Source: DAILY MAIL 126 | February/March 2012 | HER MAGAZINE