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30 Sep 2009 09:17

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World: The developing world has a big bill to adapt to climate change

  • $75-$100 billion per year to adapt to major changes in climate expected with global warming source
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30 Sep 2009 09:09

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Offbeat, Tech: Google search results are serious business

Really? You’re going to threaten a lawsuit because someone’s ranked higher than you on Google search? Worst e-mail idea evah. source
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30 Sep 2009 09:00

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U.S.: Dying on the vine in the Senate: Health care’s public option

  • Remember that Senate vote yesterday? It flopped. Hard. For many, the public option is the crux of the health care debate. But in the Senate Finance Committee, amendments to add a public option couldn’t get enough votes to be added to Sen. Max Baucus’ health care bill. “No one has been able to show me how we can count up to 60 votes with a public option,” Baucus said. On a side note, The Onion conveniently created this article (language NSFW) for conservatives to bring up in this debate. source
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30 Sep 2009 08:44

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Sports: All those hits NFL players take are not good for their psyche

  • 19x higher rate of dementia for former NFL players source
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30 Sep 2009 08:37

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World: The Samoan earthquake felt like “the end of the world”

  • I thought it was the end of the world. I have never felt an earthquake like that before.
  • Salamo Laumoli • The Director of Health Services at LBJ Tropical Medical Center, describing how it felt to be in Pago Pago, the capital of America Samoa, when the quake hit. The American-owned island’s governor, Togiola Tulafono, ranked Tuesday’s quake “right up there with some of the worst” natural disasters. • source
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30 Sep 2009 08:25

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World: What’s with the earthquakes? Sumatra, Indonesia also hit by one

  • 7.6 the rating of the quake, off the city of Padang; like the Samoan quake yesterday, it could have been much, much worse source
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30 Sep 2009 08:17

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World: It could have been worse, but the Samoa tsunami still killed many

  • 99+ people have been killed near Samoa by the tsunami source
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