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04 Feb 2010 21:48

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Biz: The stock market went through a pretty hellish day today

  • 268 the number of points the Dow lost today alone, due to debt fears; it’s the biggest fall in 2010 so far
  • 10,002 the closing number for the Dow today; it dipped below 10,000 for a short while today source
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03 Jan 2010 20:01

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U.S.: Did he forget security, or worse? Newark airport lockdown in full effect

  • Everybody to the back of the line. After a passenger went through the wrong side of a checkpoint at Newark International Airport’s Terminal C, the entire terminal was shut down, causing a nightmare for passengers at best and terrorist scare at worst. We’ll keep you posted on what happens next. source
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16 Nov 2009 20:13

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Culture: Here’s what no more self-breast-exams is gonna cost us

  • Back in 1990, this was groundbreaking television. “Beverly Hills, 90210” tackled Brenda Walsh’s teen breast cancer scare – a tumor she found, by the way, after examining her own breast. Beyond adding to the obvious dangers of breast cancer – there’s a whole MONTH dedicated to it, for crying out loud – no more breast self-examinations means that the possibility of this scene happening in real life just went down significantly. Did the U.S. think of all the lives that could be saved, or even the amount of cheesy TV melodrama that could be created? Of course not. This is why experts are questioning the changes. source
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02 Jun 2009 10:31

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World: Are you a pilot based in China? You may get quarantined for swine flu!

  • 400+ pilots and plane crew were quarantined in the wake of the swine flu scare
  • 250 of them were hospitalized; the rest were asked to quarantine themselves at home source
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23 Apr 2009 22:01

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U.S.: Swine flu: It’s like regular flu, but with more pork

  • Seven people recently got a strain of the flu, and researchers are weirded out. The flu, currently centered around California and Texas, is unlike any of the strains currently floating around. It carries elements of swine flu, avian flu and human flu viruses and have researchers stumped. Those suffering from it have already recovered, by the way. We want to imagine in the back of our heads a good story as to how the first person got it, but our fingers are preventing us from typing. source
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