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A University of Hawaii Professor posted detailed and sensitive student records for students who attended the school from 1990-1998 and in 2001, raising questions about data security and the type of information colleges collect, track, and keep.  40,101 students had their names, Social Security numbers, address, grades, disabilities, citizenship, highest level of education attained by parents, marital status, and other private information exposed:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20101030_privacy_protector_found_uh_data_dump.html

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_15980/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=VyX2tfDc


Volcanic deposit (from something like a hot spring) on Mars indicates that Mars may have had a warm and wet environment at the time.  Some of Earth's earliest life forms could have lived in that type of environment on Mars:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-mars-volcanic-deposit-environment.html


Nokia Siemens successfully demonstrated 825 megabits per second over 400 meters of bonded copper lines...825 Mbps over copper DSL lines!
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-nokia-siemens-networks-world-copper.html


Study found that HALF of anorexic women had unplanned pregnancies while just 18.9% of non-anorexic women had unplanned pregnancies.  24.2% of women with anorexia had abortions while 14.6% without anorexia had abortions.  Anorexic women have the mistaken belief that they cannot get pregnant when they aren't having periods...even given that, half of the women in the study having unplanned pregnancies is an amazing stat:
http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/anorexia-women-unplanned-pregancy-101029-0654/