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30 Jul 2010 21:17

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Tech, U.S.: Finally, the NYC Subway will be getting wireless connectivity

  • $200 million the amount the wi-fi and mobile endeavor will cost
  • three years the delay the major undertaking has already faced source
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30 Jul 2010 19:35

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U.S.: Will Al Gore get in trouble for any massage parlor hijinks?

  • NO Portland police say there isn’t enough evidence source
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30 Jul 2010 12:25

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Biz, U.S.: GDP crawl: The U.S. economy is growing, but at a very slow rate

  • 2.4% the increase in the GDP in the second quarter, slower than anticipated
  • 3.7% the increase in the GDP after the first quarter, higher than first reported source
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29 Jul 2010 09:14

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U.S.: Scary: A woman recalls how she survived a Montana bear attack

  • Within hundredths of seconds, I felt the teeth in my arm, heard bones breaking. I screamed and that seemed to aggravate him. He sunk his teeth into me again. So I decided to play dead and mean it.
  • London, Ontario resident Deb Freele • Describing her initial reaction to waking up in a Montana campground to a bear chewing on her arm. The playing dead trick worked, because she survived, along with another man. Another man at Soda Butte, a popular campground near Yellowstone National Park, wasn’t so lucky. It was the first fatal bear attack in Montana since 2001. source
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28 Jul 2010 22:42

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U.S.: Arnold Schwarzenegger terminates hope of farm worker overtime

  • cause California’s legislature passed a bill giving farm workers the same right to an 40-hour workweek as everyone else. It would’ve been the first of its kind in the nation.
  • reaction Ah-nold vetoed it, saying that the rules don’t really work for farming – something, surprisingly, both organic farmers and big agriculture corporations agree on. source
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28 Jul 2010 10:07

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U.S.: Arizona’s immigration law: Before it’s enforced, most support it

  • 55% totally favor Arizona’s new immigration law
  • 40% think it’s a bad idea – this number spikes among Hispanics
  • 5% don’t know what immigration is, so they were confused source
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28 Jul 2010 09:13

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U.S.: With no new oil coming, the oil slick is starting to dissipate

  • good The oil slick seems to be clearing up a lot quicker than anyone anticipated, dissolving on its own in many spots.
  • bad This doesn’t mean that the oil is completely gone however, and it could still be harming animals below the surface. source
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27 Jul 2010 21:24

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U.S.: Overturned: Warren Jeffs has a bunch of reasons to smile tonight

Maybe you remember this guy. Maybe you don’t. But Warren Jeffs is the known polygamist who just had his key conviction overturned by the Utah Supreme Court. source
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27 Jul 2010 20:52

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U.S.: Nice try, Wikleaks: Congress passes war spending bill anyway

  • $37 billion in spending is about to hit the Afghan War source
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27 Jul 2010 10:13

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U.S.: Fremont, Nebraska’s anti-immigration law may get delayed

  • what The city council is looking into delaying their voter-passed anti-immigration law, which was set to begin on Thursday.
  • why There’s a potentially costly restraining order and lawsuit against them led by the ACLU, and they want to delay the law to deal with it. source
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