Email: "14 Americans die in helicopter crashes in Afghanistant; 'Paranormal Activity' takes box office"
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• Fourteen Americans were killed today in helicopter crashes.

Two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan have killed 14 U.S. troops and civilians in one of the deadliest days for U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion.

NATO says seven U.S. troops and three U.S. civilians were killed Monday when their helicopter crashed in western Afghanistan.

• "Paranormal Activity" cut off "Saw IV" at the box office over the weekend.

• Every stoner knows this argument like the back of his bong, but Salon tackles it with relation to sports figures Michael Phelps and Lance Armstrong.

The former, of course, got in trouble for smoking a bong, while the latter has inked a contract to hawk Anheuser-Busch's alcohol.

The alleged imperfection was Phelps’ decision to quietly consume a substance that "poses a much less serious public health problem than is currently posed by alcohol," as a redacted World Health Organization report admits. That's a finding confirmed by almost every objective science-based analysis, including a landmark University of California study in 2006 showing "no association at all" between marijuana use and cancer.

Alcohol, by contrast, causes roughly one in 30 of the world's cancer cases, according to the International Journal of Cancer. And a new report by Cancer Epidemiology journal shows that even beer, seemingly the least potent drink, may increase the odds of developing tumors.

• Neatorama has a link to a great collection of comic strip/sci-fi mash-ups, including this Family Circus and Fantastic Four mash-up, in addition to mash-ups of He-Man and Garfield, Peanuts with X-Men, and Alien vs. Predator with Spy vs. Spy.

• Neatorama also has a great list of 10 neat facts about SpongeBob SquarePants. Check it out.

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