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Don't return calls from these area codes - it's a scam!
A scam that repeats itself in modified forms every few years is once again spreading throughout the United Sates. Don’t be a victim! Criminals target people simply by calling them. Intended victims receive a call on their phones from area code 473 which rings once and then disconnects, thereby arousing the call-recipient’s natural curiosity – “who just called me and from where?”
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Are You Safe in Sochi?
It’s a high stakes game of life and death. Terrorists have vowed to disrupt the winter Olympic games; while Russia has more than 200,000 military, police and secret service agents at the ready to safeguard the athletes and visitors.
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Snowboarder Shaun White Withdraws From Slopestyle Event
The sport's biggest star will stilSnowboarder Shaun White has announced that he is dropping out of the slopestyle event at the Sochi Olympics. The event is scheduled to start Thursday. White will still compete in halfpipe, his usual sport, but he says Sochi's slopestyle course, with its larger-than-usual jumps, is too risky for him.
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Sochi's Olympic Luge Track: Slower, but Not Necessarily Safer
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi could see a world record or two broken, as the planet’s top athletes push each other to greater heights and faster speeds. However, one sport almost certainly won’t see any records fall this year at the Games: the luge. While many winter sports—like downhill skiiing, snowboarding, and speed skating—are getting faster, luge is the rare Olympic sport that’s getting slower. And that’s by design.
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Deadliest Mushroom Is Spreading Worldwide
It’s big, meaty, looks innocuous, grows near-edible mushrooms and smells delicious, but the name reveals its toxicity: the death cap. Native to Europe, the death cap is now an invasive species on every continent except Antarctica, Cat Adams, a Harvard graduate student, writes in Slate.
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Medicines Made in India Set Off Safety Worries
India, the second-largest exporter of over-the-counter and prescription drugs to the United States, is coming under increased scrutiny by American regulators for safety lapses, falsified drug test results and selling fake medicines.
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Qatar World Cup: 400 Nepalese have died since construction began
More than 400 Nepalese migrant workers have died on Qatar's building sites as the Gulf state prepares to host the World Cup in 2022, a report will reveal this week.
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Hiding in plain sight: a story about a sneaky banking Trojan
The Zeus/Zbot Trojan is one the most notorious banking Trojans ever created; it’s so popular it gave birth to many offshoots and copycats. The particularity of Zeus is that it acts as a “man-in-the-browser“ allowing cyber-crooks to collect personal information from its victims as well as to surreptitiously perform online transactions.
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EPA: U.S. Magnesium dumped acid on Utah public lands
U.S. Magnesium "released" 8,000 pounds of dangerous waste into an unlined retention pond last month, releasing some onto adjacent public land in Tooele County, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Man shoots himself in the head and dies while demonstrating gun safety
A man in the US accidentally shot himself in the head and died on Monday as he was trying to persuade his girlfriend that guns are safe.
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Expert: FDA-approved painkiller 'will kill people'
A new FDA-approved painkiller isn't set to hit pharmacy shelves until next month, but critics are already warning it could kill — with just two pills. Zohydro, which the FDA gave the green light in October against the advice of its advisory panel, will serve as a powerful pain pill for those who can't get relief from what's already out there.
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How the Gun Lobby Became a Threat to Public Safety
Just a generation ago, the NRA was a nonpartisan and relatively non-ideological organization that advocated for responsible and safe gun ownership in addition to defending gun rights. But in its 20 years under the leadership of chief executive Wayne LaPierre the organization has become another cog in the broader conservative advocacy machine.
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Here's Why Many South Africans May Believe Oscar Pistorius Is Innocent
South African Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius is standing trial for the alleged murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he shot and killed on Valentine's Day last year. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and denies murdering her, claiming he fired four shots through a locked bathroom door because he thought she was an intruder.
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There Are Indeed Side Effects to Sword Swallowing
Sword swallowing is risky. That much should be obvious. But people manage to make a career out of putting blades down their throats, so, at some level of skill, swallowing a sword becomes calculated risk. A 2006 study in the British Medical Journal looked at exactly what dangers sword swallowers face—what the complications of sword swallowing might be and how to prevent them.
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Grizzly bears versus a campsite
ZooMontana's grizzly bears Ozzy and Bruno demonstrate the damage bears can do to a campsite when campers do not take precautions against bears.
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How we were fooled into thinking that sexual predators lurk everywhere
Creating a moral panic about social media didn’t protect teens—it left them vulnerable
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Half of meat product samples contained DNA of wrong animals, council finds
Leicester survey backs up results from other areas, reinforcing fears of widespread meat contamination and mislabelling
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Here's Who's Gathering Your Personal Info (and What You Can Do About It)
A wealth of information exists in commercial databases detailing who you are, what you buy and where you go. While amassing information about people in order to better market to them isn’t new, today it’s a multibillion-dollar industry because of the sheer volume of data available.
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Here's what happened when my family got hit while riding in a Lyft
An hour after Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of ride-sharing drivers on city streets, I was in a Lyft (with my two kids) that got rear ended at about 20 miles per hour. I got to experience first-hand how Lyft deals with safety.
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Girls Learns Lesson With Dogs In Elevator
This girl learned the hard way to keep hold of her dog's leash when entering an elevator. Please be aware and protect your pet from harm.
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