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School determines child lunch unhealth, Send home bill instead-> 3

Submitted by halfEvilTech
halfEvilTech writes "A North Carolina mom is irate after her four-year-old daughter returned home late last month with an uneaten lunch the mother had packed for the girl earlier that day. But she wasn’t mad because the daughter decided to go on a hunger strike. Instead, the reason the daughter didn‘t eat her lunch is because someone at the school determined the lunch wasn’t healthy enough and sent it back home. What was wrong with the lunch? That’s still a head-scratcher because it didn’t contain anything egregious: a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice. But for the inspector on hand that day, it didn’t meet the healthy requirements."
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Handhelds

Playstation Vita Reviewed

Submitted by adeelarshad82
adeelarshad82 writes "Sony has finally come out with its replacement for the PlayStation Portable, Playstation Vita. While they have made some strange decisions with the media playback abilities and web browser, the gaming experience is incredible. Thanks to quad-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU and PS Vita's processing power; the device eclipses PlayStation 2 in power and comes very close to the capabilities of the PlayStation 3. Also since Sony has moved away from the XrossMediaBar (XMB) menu design found in other Sony devices and gave the PS Vita a complete touch screen interface overhaul, the new system looks less like a gaming device's menu and more like a smartphone's menu system. The OS overhaul also introduces other applications like a Web browser, music and video players, a photo gallery a map tool that uses GPS on the 3G version, and Sony's Content Manager for connecting to and transferring files between the PS Vita and a PS3 or PC."
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Felix Baumgartner Is Space Diving in Pursuit of Science-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "This summer, an Austrian named Felix Baumgartner plans to ride a 600-foot tall balloon halfway up the stratosphere. When he reaches 120,000 feet, he will jump.

What happens next is swathed in mystery, but a few things are certain. For a short time inside his pressurized spacesuit, Baumgartner, a professional BASE jumper, will be the fastest man alive. Thirty seconds after leaping, he’ll exceed the speed of sound in the thin upper atmosphere by traveling almost 700 miles per hour. And if he safely parachutes to the ground between 12 and 15 minutes later, he’ll walk away with at least four new records: the highest skydive, the longest free-fall, the first to reach supersonic speeds in free-fall, and the highest manned balloon ride."
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