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June 25, 2008 News and Trends

Giant Asteroid Flattened Half of Mars, Studies Suggest News] (Scientific American)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:33:50 PDT
The Phoenix Lander may have dominated Mars news in recent weeks, but a new study performed here on Earth has turned up a whopper of a finding: The Red Planet seems to have been the victim of a massive hit and run more than four billion years ago. That is the conclusion of researchers who have finally mapped the edges of something known as the Martian hemispheric dichotomy. More]

Covario Launches Industry's First Analysis Series on Global Advertiser Search Spending Trends (Centre Daily Times)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:31:06 PDT
Covario, Inc., the leader in interactive marketing analytics, today announced at the Forrester Financial Services Forum the launch of Covario's "Global Search Spend Analysis," a quarterly series focusing on the search spending habits of global advertisers. The inaugural analysis, also released today, shows patterns in paid search spending by region and by search engine, as well as trends in ...

Report: Climate change to cause disasters, trends (USA Today)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:05:16 PDT
Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments in political hot spots, all of which could affect U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity (Slashdot)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:05:34 PDT
circletimessquare writes "Google Trends is being used in a novel way in a pornography trial in Florida. Under a 1973 Supreme Court ruling, 'contemporary community standards' may be used as a yardstick for judging material as unprotected obscenity. This is a very subjective judgment, and so Lawrence Walters, a defense lawyer for Clinton Raymond McCowen, is using Google Trends to show that, in the ...

Pregnancy pact alarms officials at U.S. high school: reports (CBC)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:48:34 PDT
A pregnancy pact may be responsible for a dramatic rise in mothers-to-be at a Massachusetts high school, Time magazine reports.

America Plunged Into the Horror of "The Deep V-Neck"

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:28:23 PDT
Disturbing new trend emerging among the male of the species these days: the deep V-neck T-shirt. We're not talking about the ratty white Hanes with the yellow-stained armpits that your dad used to wear while cleaning the garage. No, this is a far more insidious epidemic, recognizable by its long, deep V, supple fabric, and retro color schemes.


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