Yahoo
Adds Blogs
Website Yahoo Inc’s. online
news search engine will now add web logs, or “blogs” in
its search results. If successful, the move could
prove the public’s acceptance of alternative
new sources.
The move is an example of the popularity of unconventional
news outlets, regardless of how accurate—or
inaccurate-- they might be.
Yahoo says it wants to recognize ‘citizen journalism”,
since bloggers, many of whom often have little journalism
training, usually cover and even break stories that
traditional news outlets ignore or don’t have
time to report on.
Google Inc. has a search tool that specifically sifts
through blogs, though its news section still uses
traditional news sources.
Since blogs don’t have the same credibility
as mainstream newspapers, radio and television programs,
Yahoo will list its blog results in a box separated
from the “conventional” news sources.
Source:
Associated Press
Connection
between weight and produce prices
The price of an apple may have more
to do with children’s weight gain than their
proximity to a fast food outlet.
A new study suggested the price of produce has stronger
ties to weigh gain in kids than the amount of junk
food they consume.
The study examined the weight gain of 6,918 children
of varying backgrounds from 59 U.S. metropolitan
areas, through kindergarten to grade three. The researchers
compared the children’s weight gain to the
price of different types of foods and the number
of food outlets in the areas.
What the children ate was not a factor in the study.
The study showed that young children who live in
areas where produce is pricier are expensive are
more likely to gain excessive amounts of weight than
kids who live in areas where it costs less.
Source:
Associated Press
Change Immigration,
Florida Urges
Gov. Jeb Bush urged the U.S. government to change
the way it handles immigration and visa policies.
"
Now it's important to look at where we are and to make
the necessary adjustments so that we don't choke off international
travel. So that we don't choke off international commerce," he
said during The Miami Herald's annual Americas Conference.
" It is a good thing to have people who want to come
to set up their business, to invest here, to use
this as a platform for the expansion of their business, whether they're
from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil or Texas."
Bush said he received a lot of feedback from frustrated
people who go through Miami’s International Airport
and that the government should expand scholarship
programs in Latin America, the Caribbean and other
regions for
residents to come study in the U.S.
Source: Associated Press
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