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  Thanksgiving Travel Woes: Faulty Airline Checked Baggage Scales - ABC News

  Thanksgiving Travel Woes: Faulty Airline Baggage Scales New York Authorities Find Problems with the Scales at JFK and LaGuardia If you are flying this Thanksgiving , you better check the weight of your bags twice. A three-week enforcement sweep from Oct. 19 to Nov. 6 by regulators in New ...

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  Gang accused of killing to sell human fat - Yahoo! News

  Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and trafficking in human fat. The group stored the fat it collected in ...

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  Twitter Turns on Geolocation Functionality by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

  Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end users, after announcing its intention to do so in August. The functionality is provided via a specific geotagging API (application programming interface) that external developers can use to build ...

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  Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search by AP: Yahoo! Tech

  Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics. Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had ...

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  Reef Conservation Strategy Backfires : NPR

  The Kiribati government was concerned about overfishing. So it came up with a plan: It would subsidize the coconut oil industry. "The thought was that by paying people more to do coconut agriculture, they would do less fishing," says Walsh. "And this would fulfill two goals: One, they would ...

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