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Where Teens Go Instead of Facebook (and Why You Should Too) - Yahoo! News

Remember a few years back, when teenagers left MySpace in droves for this new thing called Facebook? Grown-ups soon followed suit (not that they were ever much on MySpace), and joined Facebook by the hundreds of millions – which made it far less cool for their kids. So where on the Web are teens going now, and what can you learn from them?

A recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 94% of American teens still have a Facebook account, but they’re using it less, and using it more carefully.

via news.yahoo.com

Iowa City approves SEATS contract | TheGazette

IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night approved a contract for a public transit service for the elderly and disabled that includes cutting Sunday service and discounted fares.

However, council members have directed staff to search for alternatives to eliminating those features, which would end on Sept. 30 under the contract.

via thegazette.com

Braley to use discharge petition to force Iowa House vote on farm bill | TheGazette

Facing the possibility House Republican leadership will delay a scheduled vote later this week on a five-year farm bill, Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley has launched an effort to force action on the “must-pass” legislation.

As he did last year, Braley said today he will seek to get at least 218 of 435 House members to sign a discharge petition to force a full House vote on the bill that was approved in the Senate by a 66-27 vote.

via thegazette.com

Russell Brand Mocks MSNBC Anchors, Teaches Them a Lesson in "Good Manners" - Yahoo! omg!

Who's laughing now? Russell Brand sat in as a guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe show on Monday, June 17, but the fiery comedian was met with some rather unpleasant comments as he tried to promote his upcoming comedy tour, "The Messiah Complex."

"Joining us now, he's a really big deal -- I'm told this, I'm not very pop cultured, I'm sorry -- comedian, movie star, author and host of the show Brand X: Russell Brand," co-host Mika Brzezinski introduced the funnyman, setting the tone for the rest of the oft-uncomfortable interview.

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10 national parks you didn't know existed - Yahoo! Travel

Lassen Volcanic National Park, Calif.

Yosemite and Death Valley may be California's two most iconic national parks, but relatively remote Lassen is well worth your visit, too. It's home to wide wildflower-filled meadows and, as its name implies, an active volcano, Lassen Peak. Daring visitors can make the three-mile trek to and from Bumpass Hell; aside from its evocative name, Bumpass thrills with hot springs, steam vents and rainbow-like soil ...

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Cervical cancer vaccines cut rates of HPV infections: U.S | Reuters

(Reuters) - The U.S. introduction of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in 2006 has reduced infections with the human papillomavirus or HPV - the sexually transmitted virus that causes the disease - by more than half among girls and young women, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday.

The results were better than expected and may even suggest that unvaccinated individuals are benefiting because of a drop in the number of infections circulating, the team reported in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

via www.reuters.com

Obesity Is Now A Disease, American Medical Association Decides

Obesity has been officially recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association, an action that could put more emphasis on the health condition by doctors and insurance companies in order to minimize its effects.

The new decision was made at the AMA's annual meeting on Tuesday by delegates in Chicago, and went against a recommendation by a committee that had studied the subject.

via www.medicalnewstoday.com

BBC News - Early Mars atmosphere 'oxygen-rich'

Mars' atmosphere could have been rich in oxygen four billion years ago - well before Earth's air became augmented with the gas.

That is the suggestion put forward by the author of a study in Nature journal, which outlines an explanation for differences between Mars meteorites and rocks examined by a robot rover.

via www.bbc.co.uk

Actually, NASA, we were counting on you to find the asteroids that could kill us | ITworld

Imagine the Pentagon holding a press conference to announce it would like all able-bodied Americans to take up their flintlocks and help out our military as it defends our nation.

• NASA wants to capture an asteroid in a bag and put it in orbit around the moon. Really, a bag.
• Congress is getting involved in protecting Earth from asteroids. We're doomed.

Isn't that sort of what NASA is doing by, as Reuters puts it, calling "on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth"?

via www.itworld.com

A Homely Rodent May Hold Cancer-Fighting Clues - NYTimes.com

The laboratory of Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov, a husband-and-wife team of biologists at the University of Rochester, has the feel of a petting zoo. They maintain colonies of several species of rodents — some familiar, like mice and guinea pigs, and some much more exotic, like blind mole rats from Israel and naked mole rats from East Africa.

via www.nytimes.com