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New Moon hits new record

EyeGossip.com  5 days ago

he Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $72.7 million on Friday, according to estimates from Summit Entertainment, shattering The Dark Knight's previous opening-day record of $67.
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Lactose Intolerance Lower Than Thought

HIVPlusMag.com  Nov 18 09

Previous estimates of lactose intolerance incidence may be overestimated by wide margins.
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Gallup: 700M In World Would Like To Live In A Different Country, USA Top Choice

Joe My God  Nov 05 09

According to a two year survey of 135 countries, Gallup estimates that 700 million adults in the world (16% of the adult population) would like to live in a different country, with about 25% naming the United States as their dream home.
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FACT CHECK: GOP math suspect in stimulus debate

Wicked Gay Blog  Nov 03 09

Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending.
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Beneath A Steel Sky On Track For 20k Sales On iPhone

GayGamer  Oct 28 09

Revolution Software has announced that their iPhone port of Beneath a Steel Sky is on-track to hit twenty thousand sales in its first month of availability.
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Double Standards

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Oct 27 09

David Sirota asks why it is socially acceptable for Lance Armstrong to hawk alcohol, which the International Journal of Cancer estimates causes "roughly one in 30 of the world's cancer cases": [L]ess than a year after Phelps was crucified for.
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As Oil Prices Rise...

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Oct 27 09

David Kotok worries: There are no solid models of rising gas prices that I can find which give good estimates of what happens to consumers when the unemployment rate is 10% instead of 5% and when many household balance sheets.
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ONU group discusses same-sex adoption issues

Google Gay Parenting News / LimaOhio.com  Oct 15 09

ONU group discusses same-sex adoption issuesLimaOhio.comHe said the Lambda Legal Defense Fund estimates about 6 million gay parents are raising between 6 million and 14 million children.
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The Gay March: Will A New Generation's Voice Be Heard?

Topix Gay News  Oct 14 09

The march on Washington that gays staged Sunday on the National Mall drew something like 200,000 people - that's a good guess based on conversations with many of the organizers and local authorities, although estimates of Mall crowds are notoriously unreliable .
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HP's ProBook 6x45b line handles a spill with aplomb (on video!)

EnGadget  Oct 13 09

While we don't normally find ourselves terribly jealous of laptops designed for massive rollouts at medium and large businesses, the new ProBook and 6545b (15.
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Should polluting countries pay more?

America Blog  Oct 12 09

Sounds pretty fair to me. If Africa is paying the price (again) for other countries, why shouldn't they ask to be compensated by the polluting countries? The fact that the continent is united on the subject is very good news.
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Chart Of The Day

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Oct 05 09

From Calculated Risk. Donald Marron explains the significance of the dotted line: [T[he Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the number of jobs in March 2009 was 824,000 lower than it previously thought.
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Need for Perfect Adherence Might Drop After a Year on Treatment

AIDS Treatment News  Sep 30 09

"The need to maintain near-perfect adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy might decrease the longer a person is able to keep virus suppressed, according to a study published September 29 in the online journal PLoS One.
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Essay in dod journal urges repeal of gay ban

Google HIV News / NavyTimes.com  Sep 30 09

Essay in dod journal urges repeal of gay banNavyTimes.comThe fact that, by some estimates, about 65000 gays now serve in the US military.
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Cat fight brewing between administration and insurers

America Blog  Sep 23 09

It seems the insurers are lobbying Medicare beneficiaries to reject the Obama/Baucus plan. Which is interesting, since the insurance industry was already bought off by the individual mandate, which some estimates say could send another $1 trillion their way.
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Some 50,000 Gay Couples Lied About Being Married Last Year

Queerty  Sep 22 09

When the 2010 census collects (publicly released) stats on same-sex couples, expect a whole class of Americans to finally be represented.
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CBO says that Baucus' co-ops won't work

America Blog  Sep 17 09

That's a rather huge story that got buried today: Amid the coverage of the boost the CBO's scoring (.
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ASUS: Eee Keyboard to launch in October, C64 fans unite!

EnGadget  Sep 14 09

Looks like those DigiTimes sources were right: the ASUS Eee Keyboard will officially launch in North America and Europe in October.
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Mercedes-Benz Vision S 500: it's the plug-in hybrid for old people

EnGadget  Sep 12 09

Look, you won't find a bigger bunch of fans of the C63 than this here crew, but man, that massive "plug-in hybrid" logo might as well say "70+ aged drivers only, please.
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Picking Out Of Pocket

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Sep 04 09

by Chris Bodenner KHN's Jordan Rau reports: Under the House proposal, people receiving government subsidies could still end up spending 20 percent or more of their annual incomes on premiums, deductibles and co-insurance, according to estimates prepared by the House.
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