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This week I read a wonderful article on the largest to-date study ever conducted on the health risks and benefits of coffee drinking. To my great relief the study strongly showed that even modest daily amounts of coffee over time dramatically reduces your risks of several diseases such as diabetes. Now, all good modelers know not to confuse correlation and causality and its possible that some other trait common to coffee drinkers is the real benefit. But I haven't had good health news in a while, so let me have this one, ok?

Our enhanced Pedestrian Library will now have agents seeking alternate routes based on congestion on the most direct pedestrian path. Version 6.8 also adds Subversion revision and version control features to enable collaboration among developer teams. You may now upload source models, and applets containing 3D animation to RunTheModel.com. And our new runtime toolbar control makes it easy to tailor specific runtimes and stops/starts/pauses. And we've added a half dozen new example models including a great new version of the classic beer distribution game! Read full list of new features...