A survey of U.S. teenagers found that most have used alcohol and drugs by the time they reach adulthood, and researchers said this could be setting many of those kids up for a lifetime of substance abuse.The survey of more than 10,000 teens, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that almost four out of five teens had tried alcohol and more than 15 percent were abusing it by the time they turned 18-years-old. Some 16 percent were abusing drugs by the age of 18.
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Ground beef processor AFA Foods filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, citing the impact of the uproar over a meat filler dubbed "pink slime" by critics.Meat processors have faced a backlash over the use of an ammonia-treated beef filler they call "finely textured beef." Food activists have campaigned to have it banned, but supporters say the product is safe to eat.
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The San Francisco Giants, whose prized rotation helped them win the 2010 World Series, moved to keep starter Matt Cain in the fold by reaching an agreement with the right-hander on a five-year extension, the Major League Baseball (MLB) team said on Monday.The contract, which will keep the 27-year-old with the Giants through 2017, is believed to be worth $112.5 million, according to a report on MLB's website.
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The Coast Guard rescued two seriously injured British crew members from an Australian yacht taking part in an around-the-world race on Sunday after it was hit by a huge wave in the Pacific.Four of 13 crew members, three of them Britons and the other an Australian, were hurt when the wave hit the Geraldton Western Australia on Saturday about 400 nautical miles off the Californian coast.
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Federal agents raided a cannabis cultivation college on Monday in the San Francisco Bay area widely known as the “Princeton of Pot” and the “Harvard of Hemp,” authorities said, as the U.S. government pressed its clamp-down on medical marijuana.Raids at Oaksterdam University in Oakland and other unspecified locations were carried out under a federal search warrant that was sealed by a judge, said Joycelyn Barnes, special agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s San Francisco Division.
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Stanford’s defensive pressure on Brittney Griner succeeded in frustrating the 6-foot-8 Baylor star and slowing her down. In the end, Griner still came away satisfied, her team one win away from a perfect season.Griner and Terran Condrey each scored 13 points, and undefeated Baylor downed Stanford 59-47 Sunday night in an NCAA women’s semifinal game.Baylor (39-0) advanced to play in the championship game on Tuesday against Notre Dame, which defeated Connecticut 83-75 in overtime in the other semifinal earlier at the Pepsi Center.
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The Coast Guard on Sunday was conducting a rescue operation to aid four crew members from the Geraldton Western Australia who were injured when a big wave struck the yacht hundreds of miles west of San Francisco during an around-the-world race.The Cutter Bertholf and a helicopter were sent to assist the sailors after the wave hit the yacht on Saturday, disabling its main steering and injuring four of the 13 crew members on board, the Coast Guard and race officials said.
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Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament on Sunday, her party said, after an historic by-election that is testing the country’s nascent reform credentials and could persuade the West to end sanctions.Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party claimed victories in at least 19 of the 45 available seats and announced to loud cheers that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate had won in Kawhmu, southwest of the commercial capital Yangon, raising the prospect of a sizable political role following a two-decade struggle against military dictatorship.
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Ultra-marathon runner Micah True, missing for four days in the rugged wilderness of New Mexico, was found dead on Saturday, police said.True, 58, was found in the mountainous Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico, near the Arizona border in the early evening, said Tom Bemis, incident commander with the New Mexico State Police.Nicknamed “Caballo Blanco,” or White Horse, True became a celebrity after he was featured in the best-selling book “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall.
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Current TV has fired Keith Olbermann, a network spokeswoman told TheWrap.The controversial news host has been at the fledgling cable channel for less than a year, but the relationship has been rocky since the get-go and individuals on both sides of the dispute accused the other of breaching contract.Olbermann will not get the opportunity to sign off on air, as Eliot Spitzer will replace him starting Friday night, the network announced.
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A Democratic campaign treasurer accused of draining up to $20 million from the war chests of Senator Dianne Feinstein and others pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud charges, in a case a prosecutor compared to that of Bernard Madoff.Kinde Durkee, 59, who was charged with five counts of mail fraud, entered her plea to all counts in federal court in Sacramento. She faces up to 14 years in prison.
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Yahoo Inc will begin layoffs of thousands of employees next week and will announce a plan to restructure the company the week after that, according to a media report.Yahoo declined to comment.The layoffs, which will not take place all at once, will mostly affect Yahoo's product, research and marketing groups, according to the report in the blog AllThingsD, which cited anonymous sources.
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Four giant card-payment processors and large U.S. banks that issue debit and credit cards were hit by a data-security breach after third-party services provider Global Payments Inc discovered its systems were compromised by unauthorized access.It was not immediately clear how many cardholders became victims of the breach, which affected MasterCard Inc, Visa Inc, American Express Co and Discover Financial Services, as well as banks and other franchises that issue cards bearing their logos.
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Buzz is building around the largest lottery jackpot in world history - at least $640 million - ahead of the Mega Millions drawing Friday night in Atlanta.Buyers have lined up this week in 42 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands to purchase $1 tickets for the Mega Millions lottery.In most participating states, tickets will be on sale Friday until 7:45 p.m., lottery officials said. The drawing will be held at 8 p.m.
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In a landmark development for the way Western companies do business in China, Apple Inc said on Thursday it had agreed to work with partner Foxconn to tackle wage and working condition violations at the factories that produce its popular products.Foxconn - which makes Apple devices from the iPhone to the iPad - will hire tens of thousands of new workers, clamp down on illegal overtime, improve safety protocols and upgrade worker housing and other amenities.
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