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One-third of young U.S. adults have been arrested: study   By Genevra Pittman Reuters   NEW YORK- Close to one in three teens and young adults get arrested by age 23, suggests a new study that finds more of them are being booked now than in the 1960s.   Those arrests are for everything from […]

Touchless smartphones and TVs could be on sale in 2012   Katia Moskvitch BBC News  Technology reporter, Tel Aviv   So you’ve lost your TV remote control. Again.   Not to worry, says a tiny Israeli start-up company called XTR3D – soon you’ll be able to flick through channels and adjust the volume using only… […]

Microsoft Wins Ruling in Case Over Motorola Android Phones By Susan Decker Bloomberg   Microsoft Corp. won a ruling that Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.’s Android phones violate one of its smartphone patents, while failing to convince a judge that six others are being infringed as well.   Motorola Mobility, which is being acquired by Google […]

America’s Wealthiest and Poorest Lawmakers Net Worth, 2010   OpenSecrets.org   It is difficult to gauge what a lawmaker is worth based on what they file because the disclosure forms do not require exact values. Instead, the lawmaker reports the range of value into which an asset, for example, falls. As the values increase, the […]

Christian population shifting away from Europe   Associated Press   NEW YORK — The Christian population has shifted dramatically over the last century away from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas, yet Christians overall remain the largest religious group in the world, according to a new analysis released Monday.   Europe is home to […]

Houston foundation hit by Ponzi scheme   Associated Press   DALLAS — A foundation that endows athletic scholarships at the University of Houston may have lost more than 40 percent of its listed assets because of investments in an alleged Ponzi scheme orchestrated by a financial adviser for college basketball coaches who committed suicide last […]

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