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20 Aug 2010 11:01

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U.S.: Egg-beaters: Salmonella cases way up since egg outbreak started

  • 1,953 cases of egged-on salmonella from May to July
  • 700 the normal number of cases during a period like that source
  • » Also good to note: It sounds like a lot of eggs, but based on the 6.5 billion eggs delivered in April, if similar amounts were shipped between May and right now, that 380 million would account for around 1.6 percent of the total shipments in the last three and a half months. It’s bad, but much less bad than one would think.

04 Nov 2009 10:09

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U.S.: Here’s a photo of a bunch of sad gay marriage supporters in Maine

It was a fairly close race considering, but 47.25% isn’t enough to ensure gay marriage across the state of Maine. source

23 Oct 2009 14:10

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Biz, Tech: Bloggers make money through self-promotion, not the blog itself

  • $42,548 the amount that the average blogger takes home each year; hobbyists bring home around $14,777
  • $122,222 the amount that professional bloggers take home; very little of that comes from the blog itself source

22 Oct 2009 22:09

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Tech: It only took twenty years for near-complete cell phone adoption

  • 85% of Americans have cell phones; it’s not higher? source

22 Sep 2009 23:00

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Biz, Tech: The New York Times has Twitter to thank for a traffic spike

  • 10% of the New York Times’ traffic came from Twitter this year
  • 0% of the Times’ traffic came from Twitter last year; nice leap source

12 Sep 2009 13:38

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U.S.: College students all about drinking to the point of no return

  • 56% of college students binge drink; the rest are losers source

12 Sep 2009 13:30

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Tech: The age barrier to cell phone mass adoption? 13 years old

  • 52% of kids between the ages of 12-13 own a cell phone
  • 72% of 14-year-olds have cell phones; it only rises from there source
 

26 Aug 2009 11:01

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Tech: Teens don’t Tweet, MySpace or Facebook more than the rest of us

  • 11% of Twitter users are aged between 12 and 17, a study says
  • 14% of MySpace users fit into that preteen age group
  • 9% of Facebook users can say they’re, like, teens source

06 Jun 2009 18:26

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Tech: Most Twitter users are either complete losers or spambots

  • 80% of Twitter users have less than ten followers source

14 May 2009 07:38

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U.S.: Amongst U.S. minorities, Hispanics are growing fastest

  • 46.9 million number of Hispanics currently in the U.S.; they make up around one-sixth of the U.S. population.
  • 44% of children under the age of 18 are minorities; the number is even higher for children under the age of five source