Imperial Valley News Center
Reported Concerns about Facebook Privacy Practices
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- Written by Acting Director of FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection
Washington, DC - Tom Pahl, Acting Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, issued the following statement regarding reported concerns about Facebook’s privacy practices:
The Big Inch: Fueling America’s WWII War Effort
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- Written by Keith Martin
Gaithersburg, Maryland - If you drive north from NIST’s Gaithersburg, campus, you will soon reach the famed Mason-Dixon Line marking the border between the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Continue for just a few more kilometers and you’ll cross over a second historic line: the Inch Line (sometimes called the Inch Lines, for reasons explained below). Contrary to its diminutive name, this line stretches more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Texas to New Jersey. Constructed during World War II, it inspired a quip that illustrates its importance: “The war was won by an Inch.”
Houthi Missile Attacks in Saudi Arabia
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- Written by State Department
Washington, DC - The United States strongly condemns the dangerous Houthi missile attacks aimed at several cities in Saudi Arabia Sunday night. Our condolences go out to the families of any who were killed or injured.
Design principles could point to better electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors, a key component of rechargeable batteries could accelerate the development of high-energy lithium batteries, and possibly other energy storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say.
How often do medical problems lead to bankruptcy?
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A team of researchers led by an MIT economist has found that medical expenses account for roughly 4 percent of bankruptcy filings among nonelderly adults in the U.S.
Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
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- Written by MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A motif of Japanese basket-weaving known as the kagome pattern has preoccupied physicists for decades. Kagome baskets are typically made from strips of bamboo woven into a highly symmetrical pattern of interlaced, corner-sharing triangles.
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