Pharmacy robberies are on the increase.
An epidemic of pharmacy robberies is sweeping the United States. Desperate addicts and ruthless dealers are turning to violence to feed the nation’s growing hunger for narcotic painkillers.
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Planking
Planking , also known as the Lying Down Game, is the seemingly harmless trend of lying face down, perfectly stiff, on various structures in public. The trend has spawned how-to videos on YouTube and the term now has a Wikipedia entry. (Pics)
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China opens National Intelligence College on the campus of Hunan University.
China opened its eighth National Intelligence College on the campus of Hunan University in the central city of Changsha last week. Since January, similar training schools have opened inside universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Qingdao and Harbin.
The rapidly increasing magnitude of noncommunicable diseases is fueled by rising risk factors including tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and lack of physical activity.
Almost two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, according to U.N. estimates and preliminary results of a new study.
Women are more likely to engage in sexting than men.
Sexting, sending sexually explicit messages via mobile phones, is popular with both the sexes. But it is women who are more likely to have ‘sexted’ than men, according to a new study.
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Minorities outnumber whites among babies under age 2.
Minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., for the first time ever. The ‘cultural generation gap’ is part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies.
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Costas Sivyllis has dreamed of becoming a pilot for as long as he can remember. “There was no specific moment,” says Sivyllis, 20, a junior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. “I’ve grown up my whole life knowing this was it.”
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Driving the growth of data usage are “app friendly” mobile operating systems.
Smartphone users are using up more and more data than ever before. According to data from Nielsen data usage is up to 89 percent more than last year.
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Travelers rated hotels nearly 3% higher than last year.
The annual American Customer Satisfaction Index that came out this week shows that guest satisfaction with hotels has increased, while passenger satisfaction with airlines has declined in the last year.
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One of the graphic warning labels to appear in cigarette packs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a dramatic bid to get more Americans to quit smoking, on Tuesday released nine graphic warning labels that will appear on all packs of cigarettes by no later than September 2012.
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British welfare benefits allow London’s poor to live in areas such as affluent St. John’s Wood.
St. John’s Wood is the place the London A-listers choose to live. It is a neighborhood of the wealthy with its leafy avenues lined with the mansions of Paul McCartney, Ewan McGregor and Kate Moss. And yet, they share the most unlikely neighbors — the Kastrati family.
The new website suffixes should start appearing in 2012.
Icann, the internet naming board, has decided to allow the number of internet “domains” to expand enormously in one of the biggest changes ever to the internet’s method of naming sites.
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