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National study in 2005 found high school dropouts make about $400,000 less in wages through their working than those with high school diplomas. The unemployment rate for dropouts in July 2009 was 15.4%, 9.4% for high school graduates, 7.9% for those who attended some college, and 4.7% for those with a bachelor's degree:
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090907/NEWS01/909070351/Tough+times+for+Hawaii+dropouts

Amazon apologized for deleting copies of two books from Kindle owners who had bought them (Amazon said that the seller did not have the right to sell the books), and is offering to restore their books or give them $30:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/amazon-makes-amends-kindle-blunder-point-578?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-09-07

Google is updating its Android Market, addressing some of the complaints it has been getting from developers:
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/developers-angry-google-plans-update-android-market-614?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-09-07

Researchers found that infant car seats can cause breathing problems when babies sleep in them, resulting in mild respiratory compromise in about 20% of newborns. The recommend not having babies sleep in car seats outside of the car because the seats can compress the chest wall and reduce airway size, which could result in lower oxygen levels in the blood:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/24/car.seat.blood.oxygen/index.html?eref=rss_health

The economy has resulted in casinos replacing dollar slots with penny slots--in 2005, penny slots were 8% of all bets at Indiana casinos, and now penny slots are 36% of all bets there. Vegas added 7,000 new penny slot machines and took away 12,000 machines that require bigger bets. Because of the lower paybacks, casinos actually make *more* money from penny slot machines than the machines that require bigger bets:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-31-penny-slot_N.htm?csp=34

Study found that people who regularly multitask with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory, or switch from one job to another as well as people who prefer to do one task at a time. The study found that heavy multitaskers get distracted too easily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825113133.htm

Researcher was able to capture a one-second image and the electrical fingerprint of huge lightning that slowed 40 miles *upward* from the top of a storm. The researcher was trying to record sprites and accidentally was able to make this huge discovery about lightning:
http://www.physorg.com/news170254828.html