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ScienceOnline2012 - thoughts about present and future
On your way to ScienceOnline2012 , your plane finally lands at Raleigh-Durham International airport. While you slowly taxi to the gate, what do you do? Naturally, you turn on your smart-phone, open up your favorite Twitter app, and announce to the world: “#scio12 – I have landed at RDU. Anyone else here? Want to share a ride to the hotel?”. If you are lucky, you’ll find a couple of other ...
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Prowling for Sex
The chat begins innocently enough, with the man asking the girl's name. Then he asks what her hobbies are and tells her she's pretty or sexy. It is easy to see how a young girl might think the attention is flattering and innocent: It's just a chat.
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BRIEFLY: Feb. 8
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The insurance subdivision of the House Commerce Committee appeared split Wednesday over whether to prohibit state employees from even considering setting up a state health exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act, even after a national expert from the Cato Institute urged them to do so.
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Community Events and Public Meetings
Free Income Tax Return Preparation Jan. 23-24, at Jackson State University (1400 John R. Lynch St.), at the College of Business, rooms 201 and 202. The Center for Business Development and Economic Research, and the Accounting Society offer the service from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Free; call 601-979-2029 or 601-979-2699.
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Super Bowl Capsules - Non-Game: Couch looking good for fans displaced in Dallas
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A seat at the Super Bowl will be a lot easier to come by for many of the fans who couldn't get one last year in Dallas. They'll be at home on the couch.
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Allen West on Marine video: ‘Unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell’
U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, says the Marines shown in an internet video apparently urinating on Taliban corpses should be punished, but “all these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill.” West offered his reaction in an e-mail to The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine and website. West is a 22-year Army combat veteran [...]
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BRIEFLY: Feb. 4
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