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  • Wayne Co. profits from police property seizures about 1 hour ago

    • Vaughn, who has no criminal record, was required to pay for the return of her car, which was seized by police after they mistook Vaughn's co-worker for a prostitute. Even though prosecutors later dropped the case, Vaughn still had to pay.

      Her story is not unusual. In Wayne County, law enforcement officials regularly seize vehicles without levying charges -- even in cases in which they later concede no law was broken. The agency provides perhaps the most prolific and egregious example of what critics contend is the wrongful use of laws allowing the seizure of private property.

    • Officers from the Wayne County Sheriff's Morality Unit accused Odom of solicitation after they saw her make eye contact with passing motorists while waiting for Vaughn to pick her up from the bank. On the strength of that observation, officers ticketed Odom and seized Vaughn's 2002 Chrysler Sebring.
  • New study: Brain cancer trends not linked to cell phones about 2 hours ago

    • Here's one way to figure out whether cell phones are causing brain tumors: Look at the incidence of brain cancer over a 30-year span that covers the period from before cell phones came into general use until today, when they're ubiquitous.

      The results, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, involving an analysis of 60,000 brain cancer victims from Scandinavian countries, are encouraging.

      While cell phone use jumped dramatically from 1974 to 2003, the period which the study covers, overall brain cancer trends in the population didn't follow suit.

  • Mercurial: The Definitive Guide about 2 hours ago
  • The Jobs Picture Crashes Into Debt Realities about 3 hours ago
    • The chart below illustrates this point. Based on Congressional Budget Office data, it represents the interest the government paid on the federal debt as a percentage of GDP between 1962 and today and the projected debt service payments up until 2082. The projections are illustrated under the current CBO baseline and under the CBO alternative, more realistic, scenario. For comparison, the graph also shows CBO’s projections for the cost of Medicare and Social Security as a percentage of GDP. Notice that under either of CBO’s scenarios, the net interest payments, or the costs of the debt, rival the cost of two of our nation’s most expensive social programs.
    • Starting in 2012, the cost of the debt as a percentage of GDP will explode from a mere 1.8 percent of GDP to more than 30 percent of GDP in 2082.
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        Eric Hanneken about 3 hours ago

        Something is going to give before this happens.

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  • What does Obama's Afghan timeline mean? Depends who's asking about 4 hours ago
    • The Obama administration is giving different explanations of its July 2011 deadline for the start of an Afghanistan troop withdrawal, assuring foreign officials that it applies only to the 30,000 to 35,000 additional U.S. troops that President Barack Obama is sending next year, but suggesting to Congress that it covers all U.S. forces.
  • With F.H.A. Help, Easy Loans in Expensive Areas about 4 hours ago
    • In its efforts to prop up a shattered housing market, the government is greatly extending its traditional support of real estate, including guaranteeing the mortgages of middle-class and even upper-class buyers against default.
    • Some F.H.A. borrowers here say they have the cash for a full down payment but would rather invest it in the stock market or use it for remodeling. Others, like Mr. Rowland and his friends, simply do not have the money required by private lenders
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  • Skin Care: The 4 Basic Skin Care Needs about 7 hours ago
  • 2010 AMD and Intel CPU Roadmaps about 9 hours ago
  • Heart Disease Death Rate Increased by 16% in First Year Following Indy Smoking Ban; By IOM Committee's Logic, Ban Caused Increase in Heart Attacks on 2009-12-03
    • This reversed a trend of declining heart disease death rates prior to the smoking ban.
    • If anti-smoking groups were correct that brief exposure to secondhand smoke is triggering heart attacks in many nonsmokers, there certainly should have been a decline in heart disease death rates within one year. At very least, one would not have observed a 16% increase in heart disease deaths.
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  • A Brief History of Media Merger Hysteria: From AOL-Time Warner to Comcast-NBC on 2009-12-03

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