http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/scienza/news/2008-04-21_121199539.html
The flowers no longer smell like flowers.
In today's polluted environment downwind of major cities, the scent molecules produced by flowersmay don’t travel like they did once. Bee populations are dropping in places such as California and the Netherlands because of air pollution.

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/scienza/news/2008-04-19_119215143.html
Happy elderly!
Americans grow happier as they grow older, according to a University of Chicago study that is one of the most thorough examinations of happiness ever done in America.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7358448.stm
Saudi women? No freedom at all
The New York Human Rights Watch group said Saudi women have to obtain permission from male relatives to work, travel, study, marry or even receive health care: “It's astonishing that the Saudi government denies adult women the right to make decisions for themselves but holds them criminally responsible for their actions at puberty”.

http://www.livescience.com/health/080418-too-many-choices.html
Too many choices make people get crazy!
Stupid daily decisions like the ones we make at the supermarket stress us.
“We love having more choices, but at the same time the human psyche is easily overcome by them” a psychologist says.

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A change in the law could mean mediums, psychics and healers in the UK face prosecution if they cannot justify their claims. They are now complaining that a genuine religion is being discriminated against.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7354089.stm

A study shows that gun owners are the happiest people in the US.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/21/gun-owners-are-the-h.html

Somebody decided that it's unfair that blind people can't watch porn, so they've started a website where you can download recordings of people describing pornographic websites.
http://www.pornfortheblind.org/