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Teens Not Sleeping Enough Because of Their Gadgets

8 hours 45 min ago by geeksugar
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Teens Not Sleeping Enough Because of Their Gadgets This is definitely one of those studies that doesn't surprise me. An Australian study has shown that over 50 percent of third- and fourth-year high-school students aren't getting enough sleep because they are too busy playing games, watching TV, listening to their iPod, or chatting on the phone. It was the males who were found glued to their video games, TVs, or media players, while the females couldn't get enough gab time in on their telephones.
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Daily Tech: BlackBerry Reveals Its Own "App Store"

9 hours 28 min ago by geeksugar
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Daily Tech: BlackBerry Reveals Its Own "App Store"
  • RIM has just unveiled its own version of the Apple App Store and Google's Android Market with the BlackBerry Application Center. The Application Center will allow phone carriers to add their own applications to the store. — CrunchGear
  • Rumor has it that the newly designed MacBooks are still on target for their Oct.
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New McDonald's Commercials Take a Deeper Jab at Starbucks

9 hours 59 min ago by YumSugar
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New McDonald's Commercials Take a Deeper Jab at Starbucks In an effort to further promote its new McCafé coffee bars, fast-food chain McDonald's has released a new set of clips that make fun of the coffeehouse scene popularized by Starbucks, billing it as a stuffy store overrun with brooding intellectuals. This isn't the first of the campaign against Starbucks: Earlier this year, we took notice of the new McDonald's site Unsnobbycoffee.com, which touts McDonald's coffee as simple, easy, and unpretentious when compared to Starbucks. The new commercials take this concept one step further.
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Seven-Year-Old Breaks into Zoo, Kills Reptiles and Feeds Croc

12 hours 30 min ago by lilsugar
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Seven-Year-Old Breaks into Zoo, Kills Reptiles and Feeds Croc Embedded video from CNN Video Not all seven-year-olds spend their time hanging out in the school yard. A while back, lil Latarian Milton stole his grandmother's SUV and it took it for a joyride plowing through things in his path, but now an Australian boy of the same age has done something even more frightening. The child broke into the Outback zoo and killed 13 reptiles in a rampage some of which he fed to a crocodile.
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Banks Play Tug-of-War Over Wachovia

Oct 6 2008 - 4:00am by SavvySugar
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Banks Play Tug-of-War Over Wachovia Scooping up troubled banks is the new thing to do for financial institutions that have managed to keep themselves above water, and things are getting competitive out there. Failing Wachovia was the apple of Citigroup's eye until Wells Fargo tried to swoop on its courting efforts. The game of tug-of-war is an important one, as banks compete to see who will survive the economic crisis and come out in a stronger position than when it started.
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The Zero-Dollar Bill, in Limited Circulation

14 hours 59 min ago by SavvySugar
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The Zero-Dollar Bill, in Limited Circulation When most people get angry about the economy they express themselves with choice words, and artist Laura Belkin responded on a whole other creative level. The Manhattan artist is protesting by using her art as a statement about the US financial crisis. Tomorrow, Laura will be on Wall Street distributing the 10,000 zero dollar bills she made.
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Are Wee the World? A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Oct 3 2008 - 3:00pm by lilsugar
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Are Wee the World? A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words As parents, we are protective of our own children as well as others. Forty-five percent of lilsugar parents, are part of the violent toy ban. While these moms and dads worry about their tots playing with plastic, rubber, or paper weapons, let alone play swords or bb guns, there are children around the world toting real, loaded firearms.
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Is Halloween About Holiday Spirit or the Actual Date?

Oct 3 2008 - 2:00pm by lilsugar
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Is Halloween About Holiday Spirit or the Actual Date? The lil ghosts and goblins in Oxford, MA, won't be celebrating Halloween in October this year. Instead, tots will take their bags out trick-or-treating the following night, Nov. 1.
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Do You Own a Rice Cooker?

13 hours 44 min ago by YumSugar
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Do You Own a Rice Cooker? Last week, the New York Times discussed the versatility of cooking with a rice cooker. I couldn't agree more: A rice cooker has always been standard equipment in my family's kitchen. Plus, rice has been making a comeback — so it doesn't hurt to have one for that reason, either.
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Burger King Turns Trans Fat Free

Oct 3 2008 - 1:00pm by YumSugar
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Burger King Turns Trans Fat Free Yesterday, Burger King announced that all of its restaurants in the US and Canada have made the switch to cooking with trans fat free oils. The second most popular fast food chain also announced that all of its menu items, including baked goods, will contain zero grams of trans fat by Nov. 1 — earlier than the company anticipated.
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