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5 THINGS TO WATCH IN THE WORLD

  [1]         GERMS IN THE OFFICE: University of Arizona microbiologists measured bacteria in offices in a number of U.S. cities. They found that the five most germ-contaminated spots were [in order] phones, desktops, water fountain handles, microwave door handles and keyboards, says the Globe and Mail newspaper. According to the report, the average desktop is home to 100 times more bacteria than a kitchen table and 400 times more than the average toilet seat.   [2]          CHRISTIANS ONLY IN WORDS: The Philippines has been referred to as the only Christian nation in the Asia. However, Bishop Efraim Tendero of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches stated: most of us are Christians only in words but not in our actions. As stated in the Manila Bulletin, part of the blame rests with church leaders, who fail to create awareness and appreciation of the Bible. Some church sermons are said to highlight politics rather than the Scriptures.   [3]        HUMANS AND ANIM

MYSTERIOUS FACTS ABOUT COLD

                            COLD DESERT:     A term applied to the ice sheet of arctic and Antarctic regions, where vegetation is prohibited by low temperatures, and sometimes extended to the tundra, where vegetation is severely restricted by the climate.       COLD FRONT: The boundary line at the earth’s surface between a mass of advancing cold air and a mass of warm air, beneath which the cold air pushes like a wedge. The frontal surface rises at a steeper angle than in the case of the warm front. The passage of a cold front through a place is normally marked by a rise of atmospheric pressure, a fall of temperature, a veer of wind, a heavy shower, and sometimes a line squall, perhaps with thunder        COLD POLE: A name frequently applied to Verkhoyansk, in eastern Siberia, where excessively low temperatures have been reached; the mean midwinter temperature is -50 degree centigrade, and the lowest reading ever taken on the earth’s surface, -70 degree centigrade, has been