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Dec 17, 2008 -
Detroit's major newspapers the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News will no longer greet residents on their front porches every morning, as these papers are the first in the US to end daily home delivery. The newspapers decided to cut service down to three days a week, thanks to the cost of ink, fuel, and paper. Since 2002, both papers have seen about a 20 percent decrease in circulation.
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Jan 29, 2009 -
The US Post Office delivered a plea to Congress yesterday — please don't make us deliver mail six days a week. If you consider the last time you wrote someone a letter versus an email, you can understand why the post office is having a hard time meeting rising costs. In fact, last year the post office was $2.8 billion in the red.
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Oct 23, 2008 -
The Mexican mail service delivers seven pieces of mail on average to each resident, but on two blocks in Harvey, IL the US postal service delivers none. The post office has decided that it's not worth the risk to make deliveries on "the most dangerous block in America."
The last straw happened on Oct.
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Sep 15, 2009 -
Sunday's Mad Men told me more than I ever wanted to know about childbirth in the '60s. Betty Draper is hushed away from her husband upon arriving at the hospital, forced to fill out paperwork midcontractions, and bossed around by an unsympathetic nurse whose bedside manner approximates a warden's — you made your bed now have your baby in it.
What did I expect anyway — for Betty to have her baby in the master bath while Don burned lavender and massaged her shoulders.
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Mar 13, 2008 -
Photo of the Day: Today in Kabul, Afghans waited in line to receive bags of wheat during a World Food Program (WFP) distribution event. Years of conflict have reduced the capacity of Afghans to produce cereals and other basic crops, making them more dependent on imports.
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May 12, 2009 -
I came across an eye-opening article recently about "third-generation" birth control, which includes products like the NuvaRing (approved by the FDA in 2001) and the birth control patch. According to the piece, new forms of birth control most likely come with a higher risk of blood clots and strokes, risks that the FDA has somehow not given much weight to.
The Mother Jones article told the scary story of 32-year-old mother of two, Jackie Bozicev.
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