20 August 2010
According to an article published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of teenagers with significant hearing loss has jumped from 14.9% in 1988 to 19.5% in 2006. This means that 1 in 5 teenagers has experienced some hearing loss in the United States. Hearing loss of more than 25 decibels, [...]
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20 August 2010
In a country where 13,500 bulls killed a year in arenas for sport, independent regions are slowly voting to ban bullfighting. On Tuesday, the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia voted to ban bullfighting, beginning in 2012, in a law passed by a larger margin than expected: 68 to 55, with 9 abstentions. Catalonia was [...]
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19 August 2010
40-year-old Brett Favre has decided to return to the Minnesota Vikings to compete for another chance at an National Football League championship ring. Favre, who celebrates his 41st birthday in two months rejoined his teammates yesterday at the Viking’s Eden Prairie practice facility for his first workout of the season. Favre’s return ended months [...]
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19 August 2010
Ultra-trendy American Apparel has warned that it may not be able to stay in business for the next year, due to insufficient liquidity, and their numbers reflect an alarming trend. The company’s stock has dropped 25.9% on Tuesday alone. Shares have dropped 67% this year, and sales have reportedly slumped 16% in all stores that [...]
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19 August 2010
A recent discovery in southern Australia predates the originally-thought commencement of multi-celled organisms on earth, by about 70 million years, making life on earth 650 million years old. Discovered in the Trezona Formation of Flinders Ranges, South Australia, the sponge fossils are especially rare because the organisms were so soft. Scientists must use what they [...]
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19 August 2010
The Department of Transportation has appropriated $8 billion among 31 states to start development on the first nationwide high-speed passenger rail service. The DOT sites environmental and financial reasons for the new project, specifically the desire to reduce oil dependency. “Experts in the oil industry have been saying for a number of years now [...]
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19 August 2010
The hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean has made public his intentions to run for the Haitian presidency in the upcoming elections. On August 5, Jean appeared on Larry king Live to confirm rumors that he is joining the political race on the island country. The musician will be running on the Viv Ansanm (Live Together) political [...]
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18 August 2010
California Representative Maxine Waters faces heat from the House Ethics Committee regarding her involvement in a 2008 meeting which paved the way for the bank OneUnited to receive $12 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money. Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, is a former director of the bank and was on its board at the [...]
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18 August 2010
Anna Marie Wooldridge, better known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, passed away Saturday from natural causes in her nursing home in Manhattan. Lincoln, born August 6, 1930 in Chicago, was a pioneer in the jazz genre, known for writing and performing her own work, very unusual at the time. She first began performing in [...]
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18 August 2010
The Florida Department of Health is warning its residents to take more protective measures against mosquitoes during the remaining summer months, as cases of dengue fever have spiked this year. The mosquito-borne illness has had 29 reported cases this year in Florida, a place that has not seen dengue since 1934. There have also been [...]
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