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Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

Submitted by MarkCarras (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html)

James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone. Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest.

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America’s dirty little oil secret: Plastic Bottles and Bags

Submitted by webaddict (http://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofbusiness/2008/04/26...)

America consumes 31.2 billion water bottles a year taking 17.6 million barrels of oil to create them. Enough to fuel 1.5 million cars for a year. America consumes 100 billion plastic bags a year taking 12 million barrels of oil. World figures?

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