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Atlanta
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Charleston
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Miami
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24.4 |
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Nashville
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| Your Apps Are Watching You |
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Date: 19-12-2010
Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
These phones don't keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
An examination of 101 popular smartphone "apps"—games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones—showed that 56 transmitted the phone's unique device ID to other companies without users' awareness or consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the phone's location in some way.
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| Group wants SC bear hunters to call off their dogs:::Please View The Video Clip Below! |
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Date: 23-08-2010
A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as dogs run and jump at it, a training method called bear baying that for now is allowed in South Carolina, and only in South Carolina.
Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically.
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| JetBlue brings back 'All You Can Jet' passes |
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Date: 18-08-2010
– JetBlue is bringing back its popular All-You-Can-Jet pass, which allows anyone to travel to an unlimited number of cities over a one-month period.
It's a chance for the airline to fill empty seats during what is traditionally the slowest time of the year and hopefully, for JetBlue, to create the same wide-ranging social buzz it generated last year when it launched the promotion for the first time.
And for consumers with wanderlust, stamina, $700, or better yet, a combination of all three, it's a continual ticket to any destination in the U.S. and Caribbean for 30 days.
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| Op-Ed: Securing Medicare's future |
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Date: 01-08-2010
Forty-five years ago today, the creation of Medicare transformed our health-care system and our nation. It helped to make us a stronger and more prosperous country by freeing older Americans from the fear that sickness or injury would cost them their lifetime savings and security.
Before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965, the prospect of getting older often brought with it the cruel threat of poverty. Most Americans lost their health insurance when they retired and saw their access to health care decrease with their incomes. Nearly half of all seniors had no coverage at all.
Medicare changed all that. Within a year of its creation, 19 million Americans had enrolled. Seniors quickly went from being one of the most vulnerable groups in our nation when it came to health-care coverage to the most secure.
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| 40 Years After Moon Landing: Why Can't We Cure Cancer? |
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Date: 16-07-2009
Editor's Note: Forty years ago this month, humans landed on the moon for the first time. We asked Christopher Wanjek why, four decades later, we can't cure cancer.
Will we ever win the war on cancer?
Richard Nixon had every reason to be optimistic when, during his 1971 State of the Union address, he called for a concerted effort to find a cure for cancer. After all, it took only three years for the Manhattan Project to produce the world's first atomic bomb. Nixon's own presidency witnessed the 1969 moon landing, a goal set forth by John F. Kennedy in 1961.
It seemed that given enough resources there was no job that Americans couldn't tackle quickly.
But with $200 billion spent and tens of millions of cancer deaths accumulated since 1971, most would say we are losing the war on cancer. Cancer is the top killer worldwide, responsible for 7.4 million or 13 percent of all deaths annually. In America cancer will soon overtake heart disease as the top killer, claiming more than half million lives annually.
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