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School Forces Students to Delete Facebook Pages
Schools these days seem to have no compunctions about policing students’ use of social media. An Indiana teenager was recently expelled for swearing in a tweet, and now a Brooklyn, New York school is forcing its charges to delete their Facebook accounts — or face expulsion themselves.
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Can What You Eat Make You Go Bald?
Guys, want to keep your hair? Lay off the junk food, because research now links a poor diet to a receding hairline.
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Recent College Grads Make Less Now Than a Decade Ago — Dollars and Sense
Since the economy took a turn for the worse, more and more young adults are moving back home with their parents after graduating from college, and this could be one reason why: recent grads are making less now than they did a decade ago.
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Are You Living in the Happiest State in America? Find Out
If you’re still feeling the winter blues, you might want to consider taking a little trip to one of happiest states in the United States. A new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index asked 353,000 randomly-selected people questions regarding the quality of life where they live.
Unsurprisingly, the happiest state in the US is…
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Casino Dishes Out Money to Gamblers for Each Pound They Weigh
Fat Tuesday took on a whole new meaning earlier this week at a Florida casino, where gamblers were given a dime in slot machine credits for every pound they weighed.
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How Do Americans Feel About Interracial Marriage?
Just 45 years ago, interracial marriage was banned in many US states. But after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Loving v. Virginia declared such bans unconstitutional in 1967, those couples were free to marry — and a new study finds they’re doing so at an increasing rate.
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Police Concerned About Suicide Attempts at the 9/11 Memorial
The focal point of the National September 11 Memorial is a pair of sunken granite pools with three-story waterfalls that mark where the fallen World Trade Center towers once stood.
And while they’re certainly beautiful, the New York City Police Department is watching them for an entirely different reason: they’re worried that grief-stricken visitors might try to use the site to commit suicide.
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There Will Soon Be More Cell Phones Than People in the World
Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year.
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Valentine’s Day Spending Expected to Soar This Year
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Entire Town Wins Lottery — Except for One Person
We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.
Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.
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5 Hit TV Shows That Premiered After the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is usually the highest-rated single television broadcast of the year — so the program that airs right afterwards typically follows suit and rides the game’s coattails to big ratings.
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