Billions, with a B that is. But the US needs to invest .6tn in infrastructure by 2020 and has plans to spend only about tn, leaving an estimated shortfall of roughly .6tn.
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Money saving, compact fluorescent light bulbs emit high levels of ultra violet radiation, according to a new study. Research at Long Islandâs Stony Brook found that the bulbs emit rays so strong that they can actually burn skin and skin cells.
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A Miami man shot dead by police as he chewed the face off a homeless person only had marijuana in his system, a coroner has found. And we are surprised by this because?
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Police are blaming the attack on what they and the media are falsely calling “a new form of LSD,” the drug mephedrone. Mephedrone is not a hallucinogen like LSD or psilocybin mushrooms, but rather a stimulant that can be swallowed in capsules, snorted, smoked or shot intravenously.
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The Grand Bay Hotel was attacked! Wait, never mind, it was just a military training exercise.
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Chavez announced the closure in the middle of his state-of-the-nation speech, which lasted more than nine hours. (Nine hours? He must be feeling a lot better!)
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Chavez did accuse Washington of inventing plots by Iran to attack the US with help from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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The Miami Marlins’ probe is focused on whether any federal securities laws have been broken in the 4 million stadium financing deal.
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In southwest Miami, a small subdivision is being called “ground zero” of an invasion by a destructive, non-native species.
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