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More States Move to Ban Powdered Booze
(Newser) - The dangers of powdered alcohol are not to be sniffed at, according to lawmakers who are trying to ban the product before it hits the shelves. Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Vermont have already outlawed booze in powder form, and Colorado is the latest to discuss a ban on... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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American Apparel Boots Founder, Gets Female CEO
(Newser) - American Apparel has fired founder Dov Charney and named longtime fashion executive Paula Schneider to be its first female CEO. The company's board voted to oust Charney as CEO in June , citing allegations of misconduct. He was suspended but still served as a consultant to American Apparel. The company,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Robot Travels as Airline Passenger
(Newser) - No danger of this passenger experiencing an episode of nut rage : In what Los Angeles International Airport says is an aviation first, a robot traveled as a paying passenger on Monday, sitting in an economy-class seat of its own on a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, Germany, Reuters reports. "Athena,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Apple Wins $1B iTunes Case
(Newser) - After just three hours of deliberation, a federal jury decided yesterday that Apple didn't compete unfairly when it sold music players and songs with copy-protection software that was incompatible with rival devices and music from competing online stores. The jury handed Apple a victory by rejecting a claim from... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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Rover's Discovery Raises Hopes of Life on Mars
(Newser) - The Mars rover has delivered what a NASA scientist calls an "oh my gosh moment"—it detected methane on the red planet, reports the New York Times . The discovery is making headlines because the gas had to originate somewhere, and one possibility is that the source is some... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Harvard Dad Faces Prison Over Bogus Financial Aid
(Newser) - All kinds of advice is available for parents struggling with their kids' gigantic tuition bills, and now comes a lesson in what not to do: Submit phony financial records. Joseph Fonge of Massachusetts has admitted doing so when his daughter was accepted at Harvard, and the bogus documents earned her... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Skeleton and His Dagger Yield a Tale 4.2K Years Old
(Newser) - He lay on his side, clutching a bronze dagger, undiscovered in a shallow field in the UK for four millennia til a metal detector hit upon his dagger. Then it took another quarter-century for tests to be funded and performed, but they're now telling the story of Racton Man... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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How Do Things Look for Russia? It's 'Doomed,' 'Screwed'
(Newser) - What transpired in Russia that led Jordan Weissmann to pen a piece for Slate titled "Russia Is So Screwed"? The country's Central Bank made a surprise decision in a 1am meeting to jack its interest rate from 10.5% to 17% in a last-gasp attempt to stanch... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Egypt Cemetery Holds 1M Mummies
(Newser) - For the past 30 years, scientists have been exploring a cemetery in Egypt whose origins are mysterious. One thing they have determined, however: "We are fairly certain we have over a million burials within this cemetery. It's large, and it's dense," says the project's director,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Nordstrom Worker Fired for Personal Facebook Post
(Newser) - Social media has sunk yet another user , this one a Nordstrom employee whose Facebook account reportedly featured both a photo of himself inside a downtown Portland Nordstrom location and an extreme post about killing white cops. KGW reports that Aaron Hodges' Facebook account is no longer live, but screenshots allegedly... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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NASA Wasted $349M on 'Ghost Tower'
(Newser) - Four years ago, NASA knew it wouldn't likely use a giant tower originally intended to test rockets—because the testing program was canceled. Yet the agency kept building the A-3 test stand and finally finished the $349 million project in June. And the costs keep coming, with the Mississippi... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Google Reveals Top Search of 2014
(Newser) - Google has revealed the topic of the year's fastest-rising search request: Robin Williams' suicide. Reaction to his death tops this year's list, the AP reports. Some notable examples: In the first few days after, the number of searches for "carpe diem," a phrase Williams popularized in... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Survey: Teens More Into E-Cigs Than Regular Ones
(Newser) - Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government's annual drug use survey finds. Even as tobacco smoking by teens dropped to new lows, use of e-cigarettes reached levels that surprised researchers. The findings marked the survey's first attempt to measure the use of e-cigarettes... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Teeth Solve an Easter Island Mystery
(Newser) - Scientists have been pondering why people who lived on Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) appear to have eaten palm trees—a primary crop, reports Nature World News —for several centuries when other research suggests the plant went extinct right around the time of colonization in the 13th century. The... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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NYC Teen Who 'Made' $72M Investing: I Lied
(Newser) - A New York City high school senior grabbed plenty of headlines yesterday after being named one of New York magazine's "Reasons We Love New York." What was so loveable and New York-y about Mohammed Islam? As the headline of reporter Jessica Pressler's piece proclaimed, "Because... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, December 17, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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