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    • A new invention may help ease the fears of people who live in or work in high-rise buildings. It's called the SOS Parachute, and its inventor, Morris Shahbazi of Panama, describes the product as a high-evacuation system that can be used in the event of a fire or a disaster.

      Shahbazi says he has tested his SOS Parachute 13 times himself, and each of those 13 times, he was successful. So what makes his parachute different from a conventional chute? Shahbazi said, "My chute opens faster than a conventional parachute, and as a result it needs only 100 feet of drop to be fully operational." In case you're wondering, that's about 10 stories high in most buildings.

      Shahbazi said that he got the idea for the life-saving apparatus after the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. So far, people have been writing positive comments about the concept of the parachute, with many saying they're anxious to get their hands on one and test it out. (Um – our advice? Don’t try this at home,

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    • Countless heartbreaking stories related to Superstorm Sandy have made the news. So a story with a happy ending is met with such enthusiasm and excitement that everyone wants to share it. Today's topic is just that, a story with a happy ending.

      When Sandy devastated the East Coast in late October, the Roberts family, from Chadwick Island, New Jersey, was evacuated to a relative's home just eight miles away in Point Pleasant. They brought along their beloved pet, a cat named Porsche. Unfortunately, while they were staying safe from the storm, Porsche somehow went missing. The Roberts family thought he was gone forever.

      But just this past week, six months after the storm, Porsche showed up on the deck of his original house. Uranie Roberts's daughter, Carol Baumann, recalled the distinctive feature that confirmed her cherished Porsche had really returned -- his signature green eyes. Baumann said, "I saw the green eyes, and I said my God in heaven, it's Porsche."

      The family is calling

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    • A new ad campaign in Spain aimed at combating child abuse is raising awareness in the most public way it knows how: posters of abused children displayed to the masses. There is a catch, though -- only children can see the abused faces. Reaching a kid who is a victim of abuse can be difficult. Often, a child is accompanied by his or her abuser, which can make verbalizing the presence of abuse that much scarier.

      The Spanish children's advocacy group, Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk (ANAR), created the ads using lenticular printing, which allows different images to be shown on the same display, depending on the angle it is viewed from. So an adult who is taller than 4-foot-5, standing directly in front of the ad, sees a picture of a child with the message, "Sometimes, child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it." ANAR posted a video to YouTube explaining how the ad works, and the technology behind it.

      However, a child 4-foot-5 or shorter sees the same child but with

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    • Earlier this week, we told you a story about how animals show affection. Most of the time, it's not that hard to get pets to express some sort of love and appreciation for all of the attention, food, water, and exercise you have given them. Sometimes, however, the animals just don't share the same feelings we possess for them, and they'd rather keep the relationship totally platonic.

      So what should you do if your cat, dog, or salamander just is not that into you? If you're one YouTube member, you make a creative video about all the ways your dog has shut you down. In a video of a shiba inu affectionately known as Mari-Kun, we watch as the owner tries to kiss the dog and is rebuffed as Mari-Kun places its paw on the mouth of the owner. In another attempt to show affection to Mari-Kun, the owner leans in for a kiss, and the dog rings a bell every time he gets too close for comfort.

      After being published last month on YouTube, the video of Mari-Kun and his owner have gotten well over 1.3

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    • My favorite movie of all time is "Coming to America." Even though I own it on DVD, I watch it whenever it comes on TV, even if it's in the middle of the movie. I don't care. I can anticipate every scene. I know the characters well, and I say the words in the script along with the dialogue onscreen. Yet I still laugh at all the jokes and am just as happy at the end of the movie as I was the first time I saw it.

      Now, "Coming to America" may not be the highest-grossing film of all time, but it is a gem to me. It may not be the biggest, but it's certainly not the smallest. Taking that honor is "A Boy and His Atom" by IBM, which is the smallest film ever made, according to "Guinness World Records."

      IBM made the film while scientists were researching ways to move individual atoms in order to shrink the space needed to store computer data. The filming required a scanning tunneling microscope, which magnifies objects 100 million times their original size.

      So far, on YouTube, the video has

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