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Consumers Beware – Reloadable Prepaid Debit Cards Loaded with Fees

January 18, 2011

Reloadable prepaid debit cards represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the financial services industry.

Last year, Michael Abukhader’s 12-year-old son, Jacob, received a $30 NASCAR prepaid Visa card from an aunt who thought it would provide a convenient way to give him cash for birthdays and other events. But once Abukhader, who lives in Queen Creek, Ariz., reviewed the terms of the card, he closed the account.

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend

Undergraduates Show Small Gains in First Two Years of College

January 18, 2011

Academics are not a priority during a students first two years of college.

Nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority, a new report shows.

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Alternative Transportation, Great New Product, Science & Technology News

Slegoon – An Extreme Sports Sled

January 18, 2011

Slegoon

The Slegoon is a new kind of snow sled. Not only it offers protection in the event of a roll-over but it is designed to continue gliding even while rolling. It should take a tree or a big rock to stop you descending a snowed slope and even then you will probably walk unharmed.

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Crazy Stuff, Current Events, Food, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives

Starbucks Offers Ginormous New Drink Size

January 18, 2011

Starbucks is now offering the trenta size, which is just one ounce short of a full quart. Sadly, it will not be available for straight coffee — just icy drinks. In this infographic, Andrew Barr of Canada’s National Post points out that this size is larger than the average adult stomach capacity…

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Bank in India Launches Branch Without Locks

January 18, 2011

Shani Shingnapur, the world famous temple town in Maharashtra where houses have neither doors nor locks, now befittingly has its first commercial bank branch with no locks on its front door. The public sector UCO Bank is the first to throw open the doors of commercial banking to this unique town of 3,000 people. Bowing to local religious sentiments, the bank last week decided to open the branch without a lock on its front door…

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Smoking Causes Genetic Damage to the Body in Minutes Rather Than Years

January 17, 2011

Effect of smoking is so fast that it’s equivalent to injecting the substance directly into the bloodstream.

Smoking a single cigarette causes genetic damage to the body within minutes rather than years, researchers say.

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Animals, Science & Technology News

First Woolly Mammoth to be Cloned Within Five Years

March 4, 2013

Scientist plans to clone a mammoth in the next five years.

Using a technique that produced a mouse from tissue frozen for 16 years, a scientist at Kyoto University plans to clone a mammoth within the next four to five years.

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Analysis, facebook, Internet, Latest Trend

Number One Page on Facebook is Facebook

January 17, 2011

#1 page in Facebook is Facebook

It might sound a little ironic, but Facebook just recently became the #1 Facebook page on Facebook surpassing longtime leader – Texas Hold’em Poker.

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Time Running Out For Many Bird Species in Turkey

January 17, 2011

The White-Headed Duck is among many threatened fowl.

Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkey’s Bursa province were among the victims of a recent spate of mass animal deaths around the world that initially provoked much international alarm. But though scientists have emphasized such incidents are not a sign of broader dangers, plenty of real threats face many of the hundreds of bird species in Turkey…

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Economists Predict Unemployment Will Remain Historically High Over the Next Decade

January 17, 2011

The “new normal” unemployment will be worse than the “old normal”.

The American Economics Association held its annual meeting in Denver last weekend. Most attendees appeared to be in a very forgiving mood. While the economists in Denver recognised the severity of the economic slump hitting the United States and much of the world, there were few who seemed to view this as a serious failure of the economics profession.

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Obese Women Gain Control of Incontinence After Weight Loss Surgery

January 17, 2011

Another benefit for women from weight loss surgery for is gaining control over urination.

In an encouraging sign for severely obese women who suffer from incontinence, a new Australian study says that many gain control over urination after undergoing gastric-band weight-loss surgery.”This could be an additional benefit for females undergoing the procedure,” said Dr. Weranja K.B. Ranasinghe, the study’s lead author.

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The Plight of Female Drug Addicts in Afghanistan

January 17, 2011

Addiction strikes many women in Afghanistan.

Photographer Rafaela Persson has lived in Afghanistan since 2008, and spends time getting to know her subjects.

I had an idea to photograph female drug addicts. Afghanistan is the world’s biggest producer of opium, from which heroin is derived. According to a study made by U.N. Drugs and Crimes Office in 2010, the rate of drug addiction in Afghanistan is twice the global average; Afghans have become the leading consumers of their own opium. Approximately one million Afghans, or eight percent of the war-shattered country’s total population is suffering from drug addiction, a 75 percent increase since 2005. What is even more alarming is that studies show that 50 percent of Afghanistan’s opium-using parents give the drug to their own children…

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