Stockholm, Sweden -- Farm living may not be the most comforting for kids. According to a Swedish study, children who live in cities get more hugs than kids who live in the country. Even worse: 10 percent of the "hillbilly" kids claim they have never been hugged -- ever.

LONDON -- The newest taste sensation sweeping the U.S. may be haggis. Scottish firm Stahly Quality Foods has teamed up with a Chicago-based food processor to move more than 300,000 cans of haggis to the U.S. in its first year. Haggis contains liver, heart, tripe, oatmeal, suet, lungs and spices all baked or steamed in a sheep's stomach. Stahly founder Ken Stahly first tried the venture in 2001 but was stopped when the U.S. banned British foods following the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.

CHICAGO -- Super Bowl office chatter could cost American companies up to $821.4 million in potential earnings. That's the estimation of analysts at the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas, which reports employers lose $2.59 per worker for every 10 minutes they spend talking about football instead of work.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Maybe Moses' parting of the Red Sea wasn't a miracle after all: A Russian mathematician has come up with a scientific explanation for the well-known biblical story. Naum Wolzinger says there's a reef at the Gulf of Suez near the spot of the Exodus that could make it possible to cross on foot if the tide and wind conditions were just so. But if the wind died down, the water would come flooding back over the reef, as it did to the Egyptians in Moses' story.

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