The Department of Homeland Security has teamed up with the world’s largest retailer in an attempt to reach millions of shoppers this holiday season (and beyond) to remind them to report suspicious activity to law enforcement. The program is dubbed “If You See Something, Say Something” (a familiar slogan to NYC transit riders) and is [...]
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Rare earth metals are used in the manufacture of many items such as electric cars, computer screens, wind turbines and cell phones, just to name a few. Needless to say, rare earth metals are much-needed and in almost constant high demand. And when businesses need rare earth metals, there’s one country they turn to: China. [...]
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Newsweek has created a great slideshow illuminating some staggering numbers about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. I suggest you head over there and read it in full as they include insightful synopses/explanations of each, but these were the few figures I found the most interesting: Time it would take the United States to use [...]
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As someone who actually listens to hip hop regularly, it is usually painful to see PSAs, commercials or really any organizational attempt to use rap as a method to appeal to the younger generations. The whole presentation and execution is usually just really, really poorly done and ends up just embarrassing the creators and, ironically, making them look old and [...]
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