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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

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Google Defends Way It Gets Phone Data

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Amid rising scrutiny of their practices, Google Inc. defended the way it collects location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. remained silent for a third day.<br />
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The companies' smartphones regularly transmit locations back to Google and Apple servers, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal.<br />
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Research by a security analyst this week found that an Android phone collected location data every few seconds and sent it to Google several times an hour. Apple disclosed in a letter to Congress last year that its phones "intermittently" collect location data, and the company receives it twice a day.<br />
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Both companies have said users can prevent the data collection by turning off location-based services, although doing so limits functions such as maps.<br />
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On Friday, a Google spokesman said "all location sharing on Android is opt-in by the user."<br />
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However, this definition of "opt-in" doesn't mean the system is off by default for people who use the typical Android set-up.<br />
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Rather, when a user activates an Android phone, a screen appears saying Google's service provides location to applications and that it will collect anonymous data even when no apps are running.<br />
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The box to accept this is checked by default, but the user can uncheck it. For users who bypass this process entirely, location services aren't turned on.<br />
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"We provide users with notice and control over the collection, sharing and use of location in order to provide a better mobile experience on Android devices," the Google spokesman said.<br />
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He added that "any location data that is sent back to Google location servers is anonymized and is not tied or traceable to a specific user."<br />
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Tests of the Android phone showed the transmissions included a unique ID that is tied to the phone. Google says this ID is associated with location and not with other user information. The user can change this number by performing a "factory reset" of the device, which deletes the phone's data.<br />
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Google has long defended its collection of location as helpful in providing services, such as accurate traffic maps, and its stance hasn't changed amid the recent disclosures.<br />
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Apple, which also came under scrutiny this week when researchers revealed its iPhones store location data for months, didn't respond to requests for comment.</div>
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Google Defends Way It Gets Phone Data

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earth day

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Earth Day was founded by United States Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson">Gaylord Nelson</a> as an environmental teach-in first held on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_22">April 22</a>, 1970.Nelson had conceived the idea for Earth Day following a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after the horrific oil spill off the coast in 1969.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from May 2010"></sup>  Outraged by the devastation and Washington political inertia, Nelson  proposed a national teach-in on the environment to be observed by every  university campus in the U.S.<br />
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The first Earth Day celebration was held in 1970 and it inaugrated the   modern  environmental movement with over 20 million Americans from all   walks of life.<br />
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This year’s theme is “A Billion Acts of Green” and the goal is to   generate a billion acts of environmental service and advocacy before the   global Earth Summit 2012 in Rio. <br />
The Earth Day campaign aims to combat climate change by driving  substantive behavioral change and channel quantifiable action on behalf  of the environment.<br />
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dare to bare

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Sila Sahin , a 25-year old Turkish German model, has became the first Turkish muslim model to strip for playboy magazine. Sila Sahin had until now been regarded as a glowing example of how a modern Muslim girl should behave in a multicultural society.But her latest move has shocked some of those fans, and enraged those closest to her.She has outraged her muslim family and fans for posing for playboy. Posing provocatively on the cover of German Playboy magazine with one  breast exposed, Sila Sahin seems to be sending a clear and deliberate  message to her conservative Turkish family.<br />
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'I did it because I wanted to be free at last,' she said. 'These  photographs are a liberation from the restrictions of my childhood.<br />
'I want these photos to show young Turkish women it's OK for you to live however you choose,' she added.<br />
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Writers Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Eagan, Eric Foner, Ron Chernow, and  are among the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners.<br />
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<a href="http://sidmukherjee.com/"> Siddharth Mukherjee</a> has won the Pulitzer prize for his book- " The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer". He  is an Indian-born Bengali American doctor and non-fiction writer. <i>The Emperor of All Maladies </i>is a magnificent, profoundly humane  “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands  of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure,  control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Listen his <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/mar/29/cancer-biography/">interview</a> here. <br />
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   <a href="http://jenniferegan.com/">Jennifer Egan</a>, an American novelist and short story writer has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her       unusual    novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad" which portrays the demise of the music industry in the digital age.  The book also earned the National Book Critics Circle prize earlier this  year. Interview of Egan can be listened at <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/jun/10/goon-squad/">http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/jun/10/goon-squad/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.ericfoner.com/"> Eric Foner</a> won the Pulitzer Prize for history for <i>The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery</i>. Eric                           Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one                           of this country's most prominent historians. For Interview of Eric Foner click <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/oct/19/fiery-trial/">http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/oct/19/fiery-trial/  </a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Chernow">Ron Chernow</a> won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for <em></em><em>Washington: A Life. </em><b>Ronald Chernow </b>is an American biographer.Chernow's 904-page <i>Washington: A Life</i> was released on October 5, 2010 It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2011) and the American History Book Prize. Listen to his <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/oct/06/washington-life/">interviews</a> here.</div>
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Writers Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Eagan, Eric Foner, Ron Chernow, and are among the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners. Siddharth Mukhe...

'Dead alien' found in siberian snow

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It may just be an intentional hoax, but a video has surfaced showing an objectionable body of claimed to be of an alien found in snow in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303277236_0">Siberia</span> .<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQUFxEhjnE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQUFxEhjnE</a></div>
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The badly damaged corpse was found lying on a bed of snow , the Daily Mail reported.The video, posted on April 17 on YouTube, has already had over 100,000 views and showed the body of the unidentified "creature".</div>
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Irkutsk,  Russia is apparently a known UFO hotspot, and UFO believers think the  body was left behind by alien visitors after an accident, or was missed  in a clean-up by the Russian government as part of some sort of alien  cover-up.</div>
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Dozens of UFO sightings are reported every year in the  area, and only last month there were reports of an unidentified object  hurtling into the nearby Irkutsk region of Siberia.</div>
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"We couldn't  believe it when we saw it. And what was spooky is that there was no sign  of the spaceship. Perhaps that was taken away and the body overlooked,"  said Igor Molovic, one of the pair that uploaded the video.</div>
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Some believe it is actually a carefully crafted model of an alien's body, and not the real deal.</div>
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However, many UFO lovers still believe.</div>
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"It's  so lame how people always get thrilled by having another excuse to  shout 'Fake! fake!' every time something weird shows up. Unless proven  otherwise, this is in fact plausible," posted one user.</div>
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Another said; "If this is fake - then they are masters at models/puppets. I think it's real - one of the very few, great vid."</div>
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'Dead alien' found in siberian snow

It may just be an intentional hoax, but a video has surfaced showing an objectionable body of claimed to be of an alien found in snow in...