Some road trips are not for the faint of heart.

We scoured the internet for the most frightening roads around the world, featuring hairpin turns, crashing waves, and bandits hidden just around the bend.

From Brazil's Death Road to Russia's Road of Bones, these 12 thruways will have you gripping your seatbelt for dear life.

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Alaska's nightmarish Dalton Highway stretches some 400 miles through remote forests, tundras, and over the Yukon River. It concludes at the Arctic Ocean.

Source: National Geographic

The mostly gravel road, constructed as a service road for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, contains signs warning of steep grades and avalanches. No thanks.

Source: National Geographic

The 108-mile Prithvi Highway offers breathtaking views of the Himalayas and some of Nepal's biggest religious sites — but not without risk.

Source: BBC

It sounds like Mariah Carey was in peak diva mode when she went to film her cameo for the Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler comedy "The House." It got so bad that it was never shot. 

Ferrell didn't even deflect the drama when doing press for the movie.

While on "Watch What Happens Live," host Andy Cohen got to the bottom of it. Cohen asked Ferrell if Carey was four hours late to the set of the movie, which is what was rumored, and Ferrell confirmed that was true. Ferrell also confirmed that Carey refused to sing a song that was agreed upon and cleared before shooting that she would sing. Ferrell couldn't recall what the song was, but it was a Carey song.

Looking back on it, Ferrell called the whole experience a "s--t storm" and only learned that the cameo wouldn't be shot when, "At 11 p.m. there was a knock on my trailer door and they said, 'You can go home,'" Ferrell told Cohen.

That sparked Ferrell's co-star on the movie, Cedric Yarbrough ("Reno 911!") to jump on his Facebook page and give some more horrors from set (the post has since been deleted but you can read his comments on TooFab). 

"Okay since Will Ferrell is talking, I'ma talk-ing," Yarbrough wrote. "Yeah, a real funny cameo was SUPPOSED to happen in the new film #TheHouse with the superstar Mariah Carey. But it was ruined by superstar Mariah Carey. The film takes place in a suburban home but is made into a 'Casino.' Why not have Mariah be an act in the casino? Funny idea... It's rumored that she eventually showed up to set. This is true. But after waiting for her for 3-4 hours! While we waited the director & team had the idea of doing a stunt that Mariah's body double would do now & bring in Mariah to match it. They do the stunt. All goes well. When Mariah finally showed up she refused to match the stunt. 'Darling, I would never do it that way...'. I heard her say those exact words... She then requested a large fan for her hair to be blown around and a camera that would be above her, basically a crane shot. This lady was unprofessional & borderline abusive to our director, who tried his best to appease her every wish."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carey also requested that her character be able to deflect bullets like Wonder Woman.

"The House" director Andrew Jay Cohen has taken the high road on the matter. "I love Mariah Carey," he told THR. Though with a little shade: "I liked her early stuff but then she got bad with the third album."

But a Mariah Carey cameo probably wouldn't have saved "The House." The movie has a 19% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and to date has grossed $24.6 million worldwide. This includes an $8.7 million opening weekend, the worst for a wide release Will Ferrell movie.

Carey's representatives were not immediately available for comment.

Watch Ferrell talk about the Carey cameo on "Watch What Happens Live" below:

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Taisto Miettinen and Kristiina Haapanen aren't married, but they do get extremely close.

Miettinen and Haapanen, both natives of Finland, are the six-time and reigning champions of the World Wife Carrying Championships. The yearly competition involves men hauling a female partner — a "wife" — across a 250-meter obstacle course.

The sport, called eukonkanto in Finnish, originated in the 19th century, when legend has it that a team of forest-dwelling robbers would sneak into homes in the dead of night, kidnap women, and carry them into the woods.

The tale has since morphed into a more light-hearted sport. Official rules dictate the "wife" can be any woman 18 years or older who weighs at least 108 pounds. If she is too light, contest officials will outfit her with additional weight.

Miettinen and Haapanen won this year's contest on July 1, with a final time of 68 seconds.

"The winning is the best part I think," Haapanen, 33, told Business Insider.

Sixty teams from a dozen countries were represented at the 2017 championships. Each heat involved three teams racing through two dry obstacles — typically sand or hurdles — and a wet obstacle at least one meter deep. Each was vying for the fastest time among the pool of 60 entrants.

Haapanen and Miettinen, both of whom are dating other people in their non-competitive lives, met in 2007. Miettinen had already been competing in wife-carrying for about a decade, but his current "wife" had a party to attend on the day of the competition.

Miettinen needed an alternate, and since he didn't have much time to search, he had to get clever.

"There were a lot of woman in dating sites, where they have put their own weight," Miettinen, who's now 52, told Business Insider via email. "I decided [to] send a message for woman whose weight is 46-49 kg. Kristina was the first one who send a message back to me."

Haapanen says she'd heard of the sport and was eager to give it a try.

Two years later, the "couple" won their first World Championship. They won again in 2010. And again. And again.

In 2014, a rival pair of Finns stole the title from Miettinen and Haapanen. It wasn't until this year's competition that they finally stole it back, marking their sixth victory.

Compared to past events, Miettinen said the 2017 performance was on the slower side. The pair's fastest time is 60 seconds, but that was in the years before there was a weight minimum, he said. The team has yet to challenge the world record of 56 seconds.

Still, Miettinen knows he owns the sport.

"I am the first man who has won this competition over 40," he said. "Now I am also first one who has won over 50."

Haapanen said the duo meets up roughly once a month in the winter and roughly twice a week from March until the finals to train. She has no plans of stopping, and says the only factor in her longevity in the sport is whether Miettinen's legs can keep pumping.

He's told her that if they finish lower than the top three, he'll move into the senior division and dominate there. If Miettinen ever bows out, Haapanen said she might have to recruit other "husbands" to carry her to victory.

"Maybe I could train my own man," she said.

Watch the team in action:

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Finding a college that offers rigorous coursework at an affordable price which yields a competitive future earnings is hard enough. Add close proximity to the beach, and your options are limited.

Money.com did just that, and pegged the best US colleges for people who love the beach.

The ranking started out with the same analysis of colleges as the main list "The best colleges for your money," evaluating them on 27 factors within three broad categories: educational quality, affordability, and alumni success. Money.com analyzed data on student loans and median career earnings on students with business majors five years after graduation. See the full methodology here.

The site then whittled the list to just those with easy beach access, setting parameters that only five schools from one state (sorry, California) and one school per city could make the list.

Take a look below to see the best colleges if you love the beach.

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10. University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Wilmington, North Carolina

Overall ranking: 426

Proximity to the closest beach: 7 miles

9. University of Miami

Miami, Florida

Overall ranking: 399

Proximity to the closest beach: 10 miles

8. University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

Overall ranking: 345

Proximity to the closest beach: 3 miles

Miami, a city of 430,000 people, could disappear within the century if the worst climate change predictions come true.

New York Magazine's David Wallace-Wells spoke with dozens of climatologists and researchers in related fields for an investigation on the outcomes of climate change if aggressive preventative action isn't taken. The results were not pretty.

"Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving; most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade," Wallace-Wells said.

Located at the mouth of the Miami River on the lower east coast of Florida, Miami averages at around 6 feet above sea level, according to CityData.com and NASA. South Florida as a whole anticipates two feet of sea level rise by 2060.

Within the century, a combination of polar melting, carbon emissions, and ice-sheet collapses could cause chronic flooding to wipe out Miami — and as many as 670 coastal communities, including Cambridge, Massachusetts; Oakland, California; St. Petersburg, Florida; and four of the five boroughs of New York City, according to National Geographic.

In January, a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency hinted at the possibility of an "extreme" sea-level rise scenario that would support these predictions.

Research group Climate Central took the projections laid out in NOAA's report and created a plug-in for Google Earth that shows how catastrophic the damage would be if the flooding happened today. You can install it (directions here) and see anywhere in the US.

Here's what Miami might look like in the year 2100.

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This is what Miami Beach looks like today.

In the year 2100, you might need a rowboat to pass through it.

Climate Central's plugin for Google Earth shows a sea level rise of 10 to 12 feet, which would cause the Atlantic Ocean to wash over Miami and the Miami River to overflow.

I'm a financial planner — not a foodie.

When dining with friends, I'm more likely to divvy up the check and tell everyone what they owe, than to gush over Greenmarket ingredients or exotic food preparation techniques. (I'm also not typically a fan of splitting the bill evenly, but that's a topic for another time.)

That's why, when the check arrived after a friend and I finished drinks and appetizers last night at Maialino, an Italian restaurant located in the Gramercy Park Hotel, I immediately noticed something different.

At the bottom, there was only room for a signature. No line for tipping.

This is obviously not new, just new to me. Danny Meyer, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group which owns many high-end restaurants, including Maialino, eliminated tipping from his restaurants in 2015, as Business Insider's Emily Cohn reported.

Very few restaurants have adopted a no-tipping policy, but the issue has been debated recently among NYC restaurateurs. Meyer is a vocal opponent of tipping, Cohn reported, calling tipping a massive hoax that was born out of slavery as a way to avoid paying workers. In no-tipping restaurants, employees receive higher wages, and menu prices tick up slightly to cover the added payroll expense.

Although my personal experience with tipping as compensation isn't extensive, I did work as a hostess one summer during high school. The paychecks were measly but the overall pay — which included envelopes full of cash — wasn't bad.

At the end of every shift, those of us who weren't servers were expected to write our names and the hours we worked on a sheet of paper taped to the door of the manager's office. The list was used to calculate our share of the "tip out" — a percentage of the tips earned by the servers that night. If you forgot to write your name on the list, you were out of luck. The couple of dollars per hour of base pay was all you would earn for that shift.

I'm not sure how it works at every restaurant, but after that experience, the concept of tipping at restaurants has never seemed to me like the best — or most fair — way to pay people.

Still, for many Americans, tipping is standard and familiar when dining out, and doing away with it isn't easy. Business Insider's Mary Hanbury reported that after initiating a no-tipping policy, some restaurants have since reinstated the practice to keep diners happy, adjusting menu prices back down as well. Even though the total spent is likely the same, it seems more expensive for some.

My friend and I had a different experience at Maialino. We ended the night feeling as though we had saved 20%, since we expected to leave a tip for the servers. Drinks and dinner in New York are always expensive, so the menu prices didn't strike us as higher than normal. In fact, we arrived during happy hour, so the $9 glass of prosecco I ordered was actually less than I would typically pay, even at a less-fancy restaurant or bar.

In our surprise at the bill, we asked our server a question he's probably answered many times before: How does the no-tipping policy work out for you? He flashed a smile and told us he is very well compensated.

So, he was happy. And we were happy.

Seems to me that taking tipping off the table creates a better dining experience, for restaurant employees and their customers alike.

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Build-your-own pizza chain Blaze Pizza is fit for a king — King James, that is.

In 2015, basketball legend LeBron James walked away from a $14 million endorsement deal with McDonald's to become part of Blaze Pizza's marketing campaigns. He's also an early investor in the Chipotle-style pizza chain.

James's selection of an unknown upstart over an established brand appears to have paid off. Blaze was recently named the fastest-growing chain in history after opening its 200th location in Mentor, Ohio, on Tuesday. Revenue is on track to hit $300 million in 2017, according to a company spokesperson.

We visited Blaze in Fremont, California, to see if the pizza meets the hype.

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On a weekday night, I stopped by Blaze Pizza's sunny Fremont, California, location.

The chain's blend of industrial design pieces and reclaimed wood was influenced by fast-casual competitor Chipotle, according to Blaze Pizza CEO and president Jim Mizes.

Executive chef and cofounder Bradford Kent greeted us at the door. Blaze Pizza's founders enlisted the help of the so-called "Pizza Whisperer" at the start.

Waffle House is known for its delicious food — and low prices. So, when a celebrity leaves a $2,000 tip, it's a big deal. 

Early Thursday morning, Donnie Wahlberg, a founding member of New Kids on the Block and a current star of "Blue Bloods," posted a photo on Facebook that showed a Waffle House receipt with a $2,000 tip. 

"My mom waited tables, and my dad tended bars — for years," Wahlberg wrote in the Facebook post. "So, when I walk into a Waffle House, and the staff treats me like a king, you better believe I treat them like queens!" 

The photo of the receipt showed that he had ordered $82.60 of food. 

According to one commenter, Donnie also gave the Waffle House workers backstage passes and front-row tickets for the upcoming New Kids on the Block concert in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The post quickly went viral, with more than 52,000 reactions as of Thursday at 9:30 a.m. Wahlberg's fans have flooded the comments, sharing their own experiences with the boy band star. 

"He was raised right! Back in the early days of NKOTB, I wrote a letter to Donnie. A few weeks later, I received a hand written reply... from Alma," Wahlberg's mother, one commenter wrote. "I knew back then that a mom who cares that much about her son to answer his fan mail by hand, was one amazing mom and was raising good men. This post warms my heart and proves what I suspected back in 1989." 

Wahlberg has some experience of his own in the restaurant industry. He and his brothers, Paul and Mark, founded Boston-based gourmet burger chain Wahlburgers in 2011. 

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July 13 is National French Fry Day, a necessary and important day to reflect on the ubiquitous yet humble golden star of the fast food world. The perfect fry is starchy and crispy and a sturdy vehicle for our favorite vegetable: ketchup. Their acceptance in American cuisine is far-reaching: The french fry can be a gas-station grab-and-go or a gourmet delight.

Burger King, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, and Wendy's — the fast food giants — all offer signature takes on the classic food. McDonald's fries have had the same signature taste for years, while Burger King and Wendy's have changed their recipes in recent times. And Chick-fil-A's distinct waffle variation holds a fierce cult following.

But which has truly mastered the art of the fryolator? We set out to discover who makes the best fries.

Marina Nazario contributed to this story.

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Hot, salty, and steaming fresh: McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, and Chick-fil-A are ready to compete.

First, we tried McDonald's. Salty, thin, and crispy, these classic fries have stayed consistent over the years.

A large order of McDonald's fries costs $3.15 in Manhattan. They're crispy on the outside but have an unusually hearty center for how thin they are. Loaded with salt, these fries are absolutely addictive.

Summer is, without question, the best time of year to kick back and relax with a good book. 

And if you're planning a getaway sometime soon, you're probably on the lookout for something new that you can get through fairly quickly. To make those plane, train, and car rides fly by easily, the editors at Amazon Books compiled a list of popular short reads in a variety of genres. 

Keep scrolling to see their selections, each of which is under 400 pages. 

All captions are by the Amazon Books team. 

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"Ginny Moon" by Benjamin Ludwig

"Told from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl with autism, this absorbing debut sets at its heart Ginny's obsession with 'Baby Doll,' whom she unwillingly abandoned four years ago when she was taken away from her drug-addicted and abusive birth mother. Ginny's unpredictability and her clever attempts to reunite with her clearly unstable mother keep the suspense level high until a tear-provoking finale that will have you cheering for the stubborn, brave, impulsive, and ultimately heroic Ginny Moon."

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"Afterlife" by Marcus Sakey

"FBI agents Will Brody and Claire McCoy have a panicked Chicago on their hands when a serial sniper takes down his 17th victim. But it's not until the killer lays a cunning trap for the agents tracking him that Brody and McCoy realize that they are facing someone — or something — that has never been seen before by the FBI's behavioral specialists. A ghost story, a love story, a whole lot of action, and a true-blue indictment on the corrosiveness of evil form the flexible backbone of this smart thriller that corkscrews like a bronco."

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"Goodbye, Vitamin" by Rachel Khong

"'Goodbye, Vitamin' is a fast, funny, read about family, love, and finding your footing. Rachel Khong is able unearth the humor in tough situations: heartbreak, unfulfilled expectations, and even Alzheimer’s disease — and she's written a story that stays with you, populated by characters who feel like your own friends."

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Good product design has the power to redefine the way we interact with the world.

That can mean presenting a new, more efficient way to cook dinner or changing the way parents interact with a sick child.

In that spirit, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) has announced 77 finalists for its 2017 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), which are given to designers and concepts that have achieved excellence in product design in the past year.

The winners will be announced August 19.

Here are some of the best designs from around the world.

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The VECTRA WB360 3D Whole Body Imaging System is the first machine capable of producing a 360-degree picture of the human body. It has 92 cameras to capture body shape and skin conditions, useful for surgeons and dermatologists.

Real Rain uses the same amount of water as a traditional shower but mimics actual rain with droplets and irregular spacing between bursts of water.

Q-Collar helps athletes prone to brain injury, such as football or soccer players, minimize their risk. The collar gently tightens around the neck to reduce the brain's tendency to slosh inside the skull.

Boulder, Colorado, is the top-ranked college town in the US, according to a list from the American Institute for Economic Research.

The city of roughly 200,000 (for its metro area population) earned the top spot thanks to its accessibility — more than 20% of commuters take public transportation or cycle around Boulder Creek Corridor — and diverse and educated population. Boulder also has an active bar-and-restaurant scene, with plenty of coffee shops and microbreweries.

AIER compiled its list using nine economic, demographic, and quality-of-life factors. It defines college towns as having fewer than 250,000 residents.

Aside from the overall ranking, we included cities' individual scores for noteworthy metrics including rent, earnings, and bars and restaurants. We chose the one metric where the city scored the highest out of the nine.

Scroll through to find out the 20 best college towns.

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20. Bellingham, Washington — home of Western Washington University

Metro area population: 208,832

College student population in the metro area: 24,926

No. 4 in arts and entertainment

19. La Crosse, Wisconsin — home of the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse

Metro area population: 136,824

College student population in the metro area: 16,081

No. 1 in youth unemployment

18. Jacksonville, North Carolina — home of the University of Mount Olive

Metro area population: 186,684

College student population in the metro area: 15,297

No. 3 in rent

A startup out of San Diego, California, has made it easy to add a little extra lift to your morning with marijuana-infused coffee pods.

This week, Brewbudz debuted a line of coffees and teas spiked with marijuana flower and encased in single-serve, fully compostable containers. Each pod costs about $7 and is available at select dispensaries in Nevada.

The idea is simple: Sink a pod into your Keurig or Keurig 2.0 brewer, drink, and enjoy a caffeine jolt that comes with a buzz.

Kevin Love, director of product for Brewbudz parent company Cannabiniers, said the company wanted to crack the marijuana edibles market with a low-calorie product that uses a socially accepted delivery mechanism. When they read the stats on coffee consumption, Cannabiniers (whose name combines "cannabinoids" — chemical compounds found in marijuana — and "pioneers") knew they found a match. Nearly two-thirds of Americans drink coffee every day.

Cannabiniers didn't come up with the concept. A K-Cup-styled marijuana coffee product first debuted in Colorado in 2015. Earlier this year, marijuana startup Somatik teamed up with a San Francisco coffee roaster to create a $12 weed-infused cold brew.

What sets Brewbudz apart from its competitors is its packaging. The pods are made from bio-based mesh, skins of roasted coffee beans, and other organic materials. When disposed of correctly, the pod breaks down in as little as five weeks, according to the website. By comparison, Keurig generates billions of pieces of plastics every year.

The pods come in regular and decaf coffee and tea varieties, and are available in a range of doses from 10 milligrams to 50 milligrams of THC (the active ingredient in marijuana that gets users high). It's a high threshold for a product geared for recreational users, who typically have lower tolerances than medical users. If a 10-milligram cup is the rough equivalent of a shot of espresso and a glass of wine, then a 50-milligram cup would be all that and a Four Loko.

Love told Business Insider that the company hopes to launch a micro-dosed product for recreational users, as well as a large variety of infused marijuana strains, in the future.

Brewbudz are not licensed by Keurig, nor are they officially called K-cups. Keurig did not immediately respond to comment, and Love doesn't expect to hear from the company.

"We have an eco-positive product, [Keurig has] an eco-negative," Love said. "What are they going to say to us?"

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A historic château in Aix en Provence is now up for sale — and if you have a spare $17 million, it can be yours. 

The castle, which dates back nearly 1,000 years, was previously owned by the French royal family and is now on the market with Sotheby's International Realty, Bloomberg reported.

The current owners, Ghislaine Pillivuyt and her husband, Bertrand, inherited the property in 2006 and have been running it as a family business — opening the house and garden to the public, using it as a wedding venue, and running a bed and breakfast there.

Take a look around:

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Château de la Barben is nearly 1,000 years old.

Source: Sotheby's

It's located in Aix-En-Provence, one of the most picturesque areas in the South of France.

The earliest records of the castle date back to 1064, when it was owned by monks. It subsequently changed hands several times and was at different points owned by a medieval lord and even the French royal family. In 1474 it was sold to the De Forbin family, who kept possession of it for 500 years.

Source: Bloomberg and Château de la Barben

One of the first things we learn as kids is that it's important to wash our hands.

Handwashing helps prevent disease spread. It can keep an office running instead of shutting it down due to a viral illness.

It's especially important to wash your hands if you are interacting with newborn children or potentially vulnerable elderly adults.

But we don't always appreciate the reason why handwashing is so important: we touch a shocking number of filthy surfaces every single day. 

Here are some of the most surprisingly dirty things we come into contact with on a regular basis.

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Your smartphone:

Most of us touch our phones dozens of times a day, at minimum, reaching for them at just about any quiet moment. But aside from the occasional T-shirt swipe, we rarely clean these devices.

That's unfortunate, according to Philip Tierno, a microbiologist and pathologist at the New York University School of Medicine. 

It's common to find bacteria and viruses from skin, your respiratory tract, and from fecal matter on cell phones. Some of the pathogens found include E. coli, MRSA, and Streptococcus.

"If you’re not cleaning your phone, you should," Tierno told Business Insider. A microfiber cloth will remove most (though not all) bacteria. There are other recommended cleaning products that can get the job done too.

The kitchen sponge:

It turns out that the thing you use to wash your dishes is teeming with bacteria.

In fact, many microbiologists identify it as the dirtiest single item in your household (far, far dirtier than your toilet seat).

Sponges, which are often warm, wet, and have traces of food on them, are ideal breeding grounds for bacteria. One NSF (formerly, the National Sanitation Foundation) study found that more than 75% of sponges were contaminated with coliform bacteria, which indicates fecal contamination and from the same family as Salmonella and E. coli. Campylobacter, the biggest cause of foodborne illness in the US, is also commonly found on sponges.

Tierno recommends using bleach to clean your sponge.

That dish towel you just used to dry your hands:

Knowing that your sponge is dirty, you might be inclined to wash your hands after doing the dishes. That's wise! 

But unfortunately, reaching to grab the dish towel that you keep by the sink might undo some of the good you did by washing your hands in the first place. Dish towels frequently have the same issues as sponges, since they're also damp, warm, and come into contact with food particles. 

One study found E coli. on more than 25% of dish towels, putting them firmly into competition with sponges. Wash them after two days of use. 

Ever wonder what that diamond-shaped leather patch is on your backpack? It's called a lash tab, and it's popular right now for its vintage appeal.

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President Donald Trump is dining at one of Paris' most romantic restaurants Thursday.

Trump joined French President Emmanuel Macron and their wives for dinner at Alain Ducasse's famous restaurant, Le Jules Verne, on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower.

The restaurant is also in the heart of Paris' most touristy area. Instagram photos tagged there show young couples drinking Champagne while soaking up the view and tucking into its $260-a-person tasting menu. 

Check out what it's like to eat there, below:

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Le Jules Verne is on the second floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It serves Michelin-starred, contemporary French cuisine and is run by famous chef Alain Ducasse.

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On one side, guests have a view across the Seine towards the Palais de Chaillot.

On the other side, they look towards the Champ de Mars lawns.

On July 1, Nevada locals and tourists visiting from out of state waited hours in line in triple-digit temperatures to become the first in the state to purchase legal recreational marijuana.

Less than two weeks later, the 47 retailers licensed to sell the drug are running out of supply.

The Nevada Tax Commission, a subsidiary of the state Department of Taxation, has passed a new regulation to address the shortage in a unanimous vote.

The commission found that the current pool of stores licensed to distribute marijuana is insufficient to support the market. It will reopen applications and allow dispensaries previously operating in the medical marijuana program to vie for a spot in the recreational market.

The regulation come as a response to a "statement of emergency" issued by the department and endorsed by Governor Brian Sandoval late last week.

The governor did not declare a "state of emergency," which is typically used in times of natural disaster when local government requires the help of state agencies. Rather, a statement of emergency allows for swift changes in regulations during temporary scenarios, said Mari St. Martin, communications director of the Office of Governor Brian Sandoval, in a statement.

Nearly 50 dispensaries in the Las Vegas area have licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use. When sales got underway on July 1, those retailers could sell their inventory to anyone over the age of 21 with a valid ID. But those same stores cannot legally restock their supply.

Alcohol wholesalers have the exclusive rights to move marijuana from growers to retailers in Nevada, as part of a temporary court order that was extended in June. The rule aims to "promote the goal of regulating marijuana similar to alcohol" — and protect liquor stores from losing business as the demand for recreational marijuana rises.

Nevada is the only state with legal marijuana that has such an arrangement. The state intends to appeal the order, so that its medical pot shops can obtain distribution licenses.

On Thursday, purveyors of both alcohol and marijuana packed a government building in Carson City, Nevada, where the Nevada Tax Commission met to discuss the situation.<

Deonne Contine, executive director of the state Department of Taxation, warned regulators that a marijuana shortage could create a budget shortfall in Nevada. A 15% tax on the plant's cultivation generates revenue that the state spends on public education.

The industry could bring the state more than $1.1 billion in tax revenue over the next eight years, according to a study by Las Vegas-based RCG Economics.

Neal Gidvani, senior counsel with Greenspoon Marder's Cannabis Law practice in Las Vegas, called the commission's decision "a step in the right direction for the cannabis marketplace."

"It is imperative that all those involved with the industry work together to ensure consumers have adequate access to the product and can purchase marijuana in a safe environment," Gidvani said.

Regulators pried open a channel for distribution in the hours before the commission meeting. The state awarded its first distribution license to Crooked Wine Company, which has partnered with a medical marijuana logistics company to transport recreational weed from farm to store.

There are approximately 70 licensed alcohol wholesalers in the state, but only seven applied for marijuana distribution licenses as of Thursday. Contine said the department has issued two total licenses to alcohol wholesalers, but the other five submitted incomplete applications.

Several dispensaries told state officials they expected to run out of product within the week.

The first four days of legal sales resulted in over 40,000 retail transactions and generated $3 million in sales, according to the Taxation Department and the Nevada Dispensary Association.

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