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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (29064)	2/22/2003 3:47:34 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Swedes going kaboom in a puff of smoke! Explosions Are a Growing Hazard at Crematoriums news.yahoo.com STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Dead people are increasingly going out with a bang in Sweden and the trend is posing serious occupational hazards for crematorium workers, a Swedish church newspaper said. Kyrkans Tidning reported a growing number of explosions in caskets during cremations, sparked by undetected items including heart pacemakers, whose batteries ignite in the intense heat. Swedes have increasingly taken to cremation and the paper said next of kin and friends were adding to the problem by leaving explosive farewell tokens such as bottles of alcohol, ammunition cartridges and pieces of fireworks in the coffins. Silicon implants in women who had had cosmetic breast surgery were also known to have exploded during cremation.

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (29064)	2/22/2003 4:59:02 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Malcolm, Isn't this neat, we are all growing up together on SI thread:0) <<"Real estate going kaboom " ... Canada will shortly raise interest rates a fourth time>> I am an accumulator of CAD, and am all in favor of monetary discipline. <<... trend you are talking about is not world wide. Do you see this, for example, in continental China?>> You are right, the real estate bubble and kaboom trend is not worldwide and I did not mean to indicate that it is. I think that all top class properties in all major cities should be about the same cost relative to each other, and now the top class residence in Shanghai is about the same as same in HK, and Beijing, etc. There seems to be an inordinate amount of top class residences in east and west coast US of A, and so either the rest of the world will catch up, or the other way around. I detect no bubble in China property; and I am familiar with bubbles:0) Chugs, Jay