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4 Things You Shouldn’t Be Able To Buy With Food Stamps (And One You Should)

As long as the government is determined to get all Big Brother on making sure food stamp recipients use their subsidies wisely, we have some suggestions for products that shouldn't be covered. The number of Americans receiving food stamps from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has ballooned in the past five years--from 26 million people in 2007 to more than 44 million people today, according to the latest numbers

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Foxconn, Brazil Battle Over Future $12 Billion Game-Changer Factory

Foxconn, most famous as Apple's China-based manufacturer, has set out a stringent list of demands for Brazil to meet before it builds a $12 billion plant there. Rumors swirled for long while that Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai, was considering expanding its existing local business and opening a multi-billion dollar manufacturing facility in Brazil, with firmer data emerging only earlier this year

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State Department Is Trying To Make A Thousand Ushahidis Bloom

Foggy Bottom has a plan to jump-start a venture-capital approach to the field of humanitarian tech. When the earthquake decimated Haiti last year, technologists around the world converged online to develop tools to help rescuers find victims and raise funds .

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Smartphone Losers Microsoft And RIM Forge Sizzle-Free Union

Bing just took over maps and search on your BlackBerry as part of Microsoft's crazy-quilt strategy to gain a toehold in the smartphone game. But fallen giant RIM makes for an odd partner. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage at the BlackBerry World Conference today to announce a partnership with Canada's RIM, bringing MS tech to key parts of the BlackBerry smartphone experience.

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BPA Linked to Wheezing in Babies

Could plastic bottles and metal food can liners be contributing to the American asthma epidemic? A study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting this past weekend suggests so, finding that pregnant women exposed to bisphenol A ( BPA )--a chemical building block of plastics from polycarbonate to polyester--gave birth to children with a higher risk of respiratory problems

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McIlroy already over Masters

PGT: Rory McIlroy, back for his first PGA Tour event since the Masters, says he avoids reading the papers and is already over his final-round Augusta disaster.

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The Secret Weapons Of Syrian Protesters: Pen Cameras

Protesters have developed a novel way of smuggling information to the outside world: trading in their mobile camera phones for small, discreet pen cameras. While Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has not been engaging in violence on a Qadaffi-like scale, snipers have reportedly fired on peaceful protesters and civilian casualties were reported in several cities recently.

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"Osama Bin Laden" Gets No Love On Google AdWords

"Osama Bin Laden" was tops in Google search yesterday. But not in search advertising, where not a single seller stepped into the void. Web 2.0 was alive and popping on Monday in the wake of the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed

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Echo Nest, Teaming With Rdio, Brings Next-Level Beats

What happens when you mash up an MIT spun-out music metadata company with a Skype-backed music subscription service? The future of music. A partnership has just been struck that could change the way you listen to music

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4 Great New Business Laptops

Our top pick, the 3.3-pound ThinkPad, which lasts 6.5 hours fully charged, aced our Photoshop test, applying a Liquify effect, used for retouching photos, in 44 seconds. Video looked crisp on the 12.5-inch screen

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Book Review: Little Bets

The book: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries, by Peter Sims; Free Press.

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