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4 Surprising Things That Have Kept Us Alive

(Newser) – In a piece last week on Slate, Laura Helmuth took a long and interesting look at what she dubs “the most important difference between the world today and 150 years ago”: the doubling of our lifespan, from about 40 years to about 80. She looked at the big reasons why, of which you probably could come up with a few—like vaccines, clean water, refrigeration. But Helmuth’s fascinating follow-up piece takes things a step further, and her headline says it all: “Fourteen Oddball Reasons You’re Not Dead Yet.” Here are our favorite four:

• Cotton: Before we started wearing cotton we wore wool, which was tougher to clean. That made it a more welcoming home for body lice, which spread one of history’s big killers: typhus.


• Satellites: Helmuth is referring to the weather-observing kind, which alert us to hurricanes with enough time to prepare and, importantly, evacuate. To wit, she cites a 1900 hurricane that killed 8,000 in Galveston. Hurricane Ike brought a higher storm surge in 2008, but the Texas Department of State Health Services identified just 74 deaths.


• Window screens: They keep out houseflies, and that has saved us from more than just some hand-swatting. Though Helmuth acknowledges that clean water and sewage treatment were the biggest factors in squashing the spread of potentially fatal diarrhea, flies were also a vector.


• Shoes: If you think disease-carrying flies sound gross, well, meet hookworms. These parasites find their way from the feces of an infected person (which were ostensibly on the ground) and into the body of another person through the feet. They did so frequently in the Southeast before wearing shoes became an encouraged practice.

Head to Slate for the other 10 items on her list, which includes the residents of Framingham, Mass.

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Prosecutor: Kidnapped Ohio Women Kept Diaries

Prosecutors say three women held captive in a run-down Cleveland home kept diaries documenting the physical and sexual abuse they suffered daily for a decade.

They say the women’s kidnapper lured one of them into his home with the promise of a puppy and locked all of them in a vehicle in his garage for three days when someone visited him. They say he claims he didn’t have an exit strategy from his complicated double life and finally gave the women a chance to escape by leaving a door unlocked.

One woman broke free in May and called police to rescue them.

Former school bus driver Ariel Castro has pleaded guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping, rape, assault and aggravated murder. He’s being sentenced Thursday.

Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County prosecutor Tim McGinty says in a sentencing memorandum filed Wednesday that Castro “remains remorseless.”

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Wall Street Shaped Bill Easing Oversight, and Kept Contributions Coming

Banking industry lobbyists helped members of the House Financial Services Committee craft a bill loosening regulators’ oversight of various types of trading, with lobbyists from Citibank playing a large role in the process, according to a report in today’s New York Times. Seventy-one of the 80 lines in a bill recently approved by the panel were written with the assistance of lobbyists for major banks, said the report, which is based on emails reviewed by the paper’s reporters; two paragraphs were copied from the lobbyists nearly word-for-word.

According to Center for Responsive Politics data, in the first quarter of 2013, members of that committee received more than $ 1.3 million in donations to their campaigns and leadership PACs from the securities and investment industry and commercial banks.

The donations came from PACs representing the financial firms, individuals they employ and lobbyists who represent the firms. By far the largest source of cash from the two industries was the Investment Company Institute, a trade association representing Wall Street firms. The ICI gave at least $ 129,000 to members of the House Financial Services Committee. Other trade groups representing banks and investment firms, including the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America, were also major contributors. 

Among individual corporations, UBS was the top donor to the committee’s members, contributing $ 88,000 so far this year.

The banking and securities and investment industries together contributed about the same amount overall to members of the committee in the first quarter of 2011 as in the first three months of 2013 — roughly $ 1.3 million. But the commercial banking industry — including Citigroup — gave substantially more this time around, while the securities industry gave less.

Banking industry companies increased their contributions in 2013 to $ 640,286, from $ 497,169 in early 2011. Citigroup, in particular, jumped from $ 19,500 in donations to committee members to $ 39,500. UBS went from $ 64,250 to $ 88,000. Wells Fargo also opened its checkbook a little wider this year, giving $ 80,000, compared with $ 31,250 in 2011.

The ABA gave $ 90,750 in the first quarter of 2013, up from $ 58,650 in the comparable period in 2011.

Although the New York Times article cites a growing friendliness between the banking industry and congressional Democrats, the money going to the members of the committee this year overwhelmingly tilted towards Republicans. Seventy percent of the $ 1.3 million went to GOP lawmakers. Republicans control the House, and thus the committee, and it is not unusual to see the majority party pick up more cash from donors, regardless of the topic or committee.

The top recipient of cash from the two industries so far this year is Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the chairman of the committee, who has picked up $ 140,400. The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who has criticized the legislation in question, received only $ 6,000.

The bill, the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act (H.R. 992), was sponsored by committee member Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.), who has received $ 50,100 from commercial banks and the securities and investment industry, the majority of which came from individuals rather than PACs. One of his co-sponsors, who defended the legislation to the Times, is Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) who took in a similar amount from the two industries — about $ 47,700.

According to FEC records, Citigroup’s PAC gave Hultgren’s campaign committee $ 2,000. And it gave Himes’ campaign $ 1,000 and his leadership PAC, Jobs and Innovation Matter PAC (JIM PAC) another $ 2,500. The donations to Hultgren, JIM PAC and a $ 5,000 donation to Hensarling’s leadership PAC were all made on March 26.

The panel passed the bill this month despite objections from the Treasury Department. It awaits action in the full House.

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Wall Street Shaped Bill Easing Oversight, and Kept Contributions Coming