ER visits over the holiday surge due to underage drinking.
The Fourth of July weekend brings double the usual number of boys the the emergency room due to underage drinking according to a government report.
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Thirteen percent of people take vacations knowing they may have to work if necessary.
About 45% of U.S. workers would scrap or scale back their summer vacation plans to save money if the economy remains volatile, according to a survey.
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Would you like a beer with your whopper meal?
Fast food restaurants like Burger King and Sonic and coffee powerhouse Starbucks are trying to boost sales during slow business hours by experimenting with sales of alcohol along with their standard offering.
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Aircraft increase the chances of snow or rain when they punch holes in clouds after taking off.
Airplanes can influence local weather when they take off and land. Aircraft increase the chances of snow and rain during take off and landing, according to a new study, published in the ‘Science’ journal. The finding is based on satellite images of clouds around airports.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: As the musical chairs game of unemployment money runs out, and an increasingly large number of people are left without a seat at the jobs table, desperation begins to set in.
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Tree Hotel in Sweden
Sweden’s unusual Tree Hotel does away with standardized rooms and instead puts guests up in a variety of design-y treehouses. A variety of architectural firms and the Tree Hotel partnered up to design distinct and unusual spaces all built in trees except for the ground-touching sauna. (Pics)
Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain claim unemployment benefit when they actually have some kind of work.
In the Via Barsanti in the town of PratoShi, Italy, Songbin’s existence came to light one morning only when stunned residents found his body outside an underground parking garage surrounded by drab apartment blocks.
3D-styled basketball court in Munich.
There is a basketball court in Munich, Germany that is going to blow your mind. It is the craziest basketball court in the world. (Pics)
Scientists are thinking about starting a new geological era: The Anthropocene.
Anthropologist Félix Pharand has made a visualization of Earth that shows urban areas, shipping routes, global roads and air networks. It also gives a very good idea on how big our species’ physical impact on the planet really is.
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Recent cyber attacks have raised questions about the security of government and corporate computer systems.
A top U.S. official warned that the technical sophistication of cybercriminals is swamping the world’s ability to cope and demanding an accelerated cross-border campaign to combat the security threat.
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Penn State tops the list for public in-state colleges.
No college wants to top these rankings. Today the Education Department unveils a website on which it is publishing for the first time lists identifying the nation’s most expensive colleges.
Mark Zuckerberg is worth $18 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has become richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, thanks to GSV Capital Corp’s stake buy which values the popular social networking site at about $70 billion. Earlier this week GSV Capital Corp bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 each.
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