Word: trended
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...Eating In Britain: The bite of food inflation has more Brits turning to cheap tins of grub. Sales of baked beans, a staple of postwar rationing years, have increased 12% in the past year--to a record $530 million. Across the pond, Americans are experiencing a similar canned-food trend: sales of Spam are up more than...
...Ohio A Spike in Teen Suicides A sharp increase in the teen-suicide rate in 2004 was largely sustained in 2005, according to a new study. Some worry that warnings of a link between antidepressants and youth suicide is actually fueling the trend by dissuading at-risk teens from taking medication. Alcohol, access to guns and suicides among teenage U.S. troops were also cited as possible factors in the spike...
...happened today, the Great Miami storm would have caused from $140 billion to $157 billion in damages. (Hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in U.S. history, caused $100 billion in losses.) "There has been no trend in the number or intensity of storms at landfall since 1900," says Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado. "The storms themselves haven't changed...
...presence in the country's premier winter sports competition. It's a similar, if less striking, picture in New Zealand, where Maori and Islanders comprise 17% of the population, yet of late have made up more than half the players in the country's five provincial rugby sides. The trend is set to accelerate. In Australia, the proportion of Polynesian players in high-level junior rugby league teams is even higher than...
...sushi from four restaurants and 10 grocery stores using a simple genetic-fingerprinting technique, two local high school students discovered that one-fourth of the samples were mislabeled; some lower-quality seafood was being passed off as top-grade fish. While their study was too small to indicate a trend--and the students, fearing lawsuits, wouldn't name names--the case has New Yorkers wondering what's between their chopsticks...