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...million debit and credit cards - around a quarter of all those in circulation in Germany - have been rendered unreadable by the software bug, causing chaos across the country. The situation harks back to the fears over the so-called millennium bug, which many experts thought would cause computer systems around the world to crash when the year switched over from 1999 to 2000. The difference: the millennium bug turned out to be a false alarm. In Germany, the Year 2010 bug has left millions of people fuming at the ATM. (See the top 10 panics...
Nevertheless, sales stayed strong. By 1993, Prozac had been taken by some 10 million people around the globe. In contrast to the obscure antidepressants of generations past, Newsweek noted in 1994, "Prozac has attained the familiarity of Kleenex and the social status of spring water." Depression had begun to shake its stigma...
...known as the bluestreak cleaner wrasse. These colorful little critters make their living in coral reefs by setting up cleaning stations where larger fish - often predators that might otherwise gobble them up - can stop by to have their skin cleaned. The wrasses busy themselves like car-wash attendants fussing around a sports car, nibbling off parasites, dead tissue and other blemishes and nourishing themselves in the process. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...saline solution can make a journey through airport security an unpleasant experience. So when Irish authorities were alerted on Tuesday that a man had passed through Dublin Airport days earlier carrying high-grade plastic explosives, it's not surprising that a large-scale security alert was triggered. The roads around the 49-year-old electrician's apartment in Dublin were cordoned off, and bomb-disposal experts searched the premises, turning up 3 oz. of the powerful explosive material RDX. The amount was greater than what Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is accused of carrying on board Detroit-bound Northwest Flight...
...given the increased scrutiny of airport security measures after the attempted bombing of the flight over Detroit last month, could more of us become guinea pigs for airport security staff? "If your security regime is entirely transparent, then you're almost inviting people to try and get around it," says Ripley. "Unpredictability can be a useful tool, but in this case, I think enthusiasm got in the way of professionalism...