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  Nutella, Sketchers, Rice Krispies and Advertising
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  Chocolate spread as a breakfast food? Getting in shape by sitting on the couch in sneakers? These ideas seem ridiculous to most people but two U.S. companies recently lost big dollars when lawsuits against their false advertising claims were brought by consumers and the Federal Trade...

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  Policing Hate Speech in the Cloud: France Holds Twitter Accountable
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  When I logged in to my American Twitter account this morning to get my daily news, I took inventory of the trending words and hashtags featured in the left column. Post-Super Bowl weekend, three of the ten featured-hits had something to do with football and a few others were tied to current...

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  More Mergers Increasing Number of Gigantic Law Firms
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  Major law firms are merging to become ever bigger, forming international legal leviathans. One news article referred to the trend as establishing legal “behemoths.” For example, another article in the Wall Street Journal last month noted there were three recent deals that created...

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  Raleigh, NC "Oh Sheetz!" Z-4-13 New Hope Road, Zoning 102
  Article by Lillian L Thompson

  Farm land becomes waste land! Homes go up for sale! Families move! Traffic increases! Open 24/7 lights flood bedrooms...

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  Netherlands Cracks Down on Cannabis Coffeeshops
  Topic by Ed Murrieta

  Foreigners visiting three southern provinces of the Netherlands are now prohibited from partaking in one of the nation's most famous tourist attractions: purchasing and smoking marijuana and hashish in coffeeshops. Since the early 1970s, soft drugs such as marijuana and hashish have been...

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  The Third Party Problem
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  Come election time, my husband and I often find ourselves on opposite sides of the voting booth. It's not that our political beliefs differ much -- we're both liberals. The difference is that he believes in voting for the candidate who most closely matches his personal beliefs, which often...