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Europe may finally be admitting Americans had a point.For decades, much of the continent treated air conditioning as an unnecessary luxury — something for hotels, shopping malls, and the occasional trip abroad.Americans, meanwhile, have spent years looking across the Atlantic wondering why Europeans would rather sweat through a heat wave…

Smoking is somehow inexplicably cool again, and I’m not happy about it. After a period of health-conscious stigma, it is now viewed as culturally acceptable and even desirable to be seen holding a cigarette in one’s hand. It signals sophistication, a rebellious attitude, and undeniable coolness.Newsweek reported on a “cigarette…

As record-breaking temperatures and severe heat waves become the new normal, air conditioning has become a necessity.On Tuesday, France experienced its hottest day on record, while the United Kingdom recorded its highest temperature ever for June, the Associated Press reported.And in the US, the nine hottest years on record have…