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When EBay first came out there tended to be a scare that there was a mass production of fake sells going on this site, but they found out that EBay helped find the people selling the fakes. In Peruvian, Mexican, Egyptian, Bulgarian and Chinese workshops they are creating fake antiques to go online and sells for the price of the real ones. Stanish, a researcher on this situation has discover over the past couple of years even he cannot figure out if the product are real or fake, about 5 percent of the product are real and 30 percent are obviously fake but the rest is inconclusive. 

In Holland there is a fake statement being said that the consumption of marijuana in fact it is very illegal, they spend the most money on drug enforcement policies in Europe besides Sweden. Even with it being illegal to have marijuana it is still sold in coffee shops because of the non enforcement polices being enacted there. Holland has created a helicopter that can detect pot grow areas, so far this has been very successful the police found a small area with pot growing on the first try.

Rather than talking about cool organs this article was more about the topic of "cool kids." This article talked about how the "shelf life" for the popular kids rarely makes it past 20s. In a study in the Journal of Child's Development sociologists followed little kids from various ethnicities and locations until they were adults. Sociologists found that children that were dubbed "cool" were developed this fake maturity because they were typically the ones that went to parties or dated at an earlier age, but as the kids began to get older the other children developed real maturity, so the "cool kids" typically began to involve themselves in riskier behavior in order to maintain their "cool" status, but eventually the risky business turned to alcohol/drug abuse. So, eventually the "cool kids" are no longer cool they are law breakers. Finally, leading sociologists to believe cool kids can't stay cool forever.