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The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Latest official death toll stands at 112,250 with 194,000 people injured. $1.12 billion in international aid pledges made; $783 million received as of Tuesday.
From MSNBC: WASHINGTON – President Obama is reconstituting the team that helped him win the White House to counter Republican challenges in the midterm elections and recalibrate after political setbacks that have narrowed his legislative ambitions.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the United Nations said Saturday, saying there was little hope of finding more people alive 10 days after much of the capital was reduced to rubble.
From the NY Times: Four years ago, a representative of an established business plan competition, the ORNL Global Venture Challenge, phoned Tiffany Bussey, founding director of the Morehouse College Entrepreneurship Center.
One of two piers at the port serving the Haitian capital has reopened, and a gravel road was laid off of it, clearing a major route for aid to come into the city, officials said.
I don’t think we will ever know what the death toll is from this earthquake’
From the NY Times: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dr. Alix Lassegue, the physician who runs this city’s largest hospital, including its morgue, has been trying to figure out how many people died after the earth buckled so violently last week.
The Brooklyn Comedy Company Proudly Presents Season 3, Episode 4 of “This Week in Blackness.” On MLK Day, MSNBC had a discussion on race and host Elon James White did not want to miss it. He might have wished he missed it AFTERWARDS, but before hand? Really didn’t want to miss it… RELATED STORIES TWiB: […]
Temblor hits as U.S. announces plan to send additional ships to area
