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One in three Americans are toting tablets now

2013-06-10 17:47:12| CNET News.com

Tablet ownership has nearly doubled in the last year, a Pew study finds, and the people buying them tend to be older and richer than those gravitating to devices like smartphones. [Read more]

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Most Americans dont give a frack about fracking

2013-05-30 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: You might think fracking is a highly divisive, heatedly contested issue, but most Americans don`t give a damn about it either way. The latest Climate Change in the American Mind survey found that 39 percent of respondents had never heard of fracking, while another 13 percent didn`t know whether they had heard of it. So it`s not too much of a surprise, then, to learn that 58 percent of survey respondents held no opinion on whether fracking is a good thing or a bad thing. Those who did have...

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From Alaska to Florida: Americans take to streets against Monsanto and GMOs

2013-05-27 03:00:06| Biotech - Topix.net

Hundreds of thousands across the US joined the worldwide rally against biotech giant Monsanto and genetically engineered crops.

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Americans having their say on divisive Keystone pipeline plan

2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CNN: Jobs, say hundreds of thousands of people. Pollution, say hundreds of thousands of others. They say that's what a proposed oil pipeline would bring into the country, as it transports crude from massive deposits in Canadian tar sands to refineries and ports in the United States. The Keystone XL pipeline has triggered a gush of comments from Americans for and against its construction. The State Department in Washington has received 1.2 million since early March, when it came out in support of...

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