Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Surprise! Smoking is a lot worse than we all thought

Mark Garrison Jan 17, 2014
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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Surprise! Smoking is a lot worse than we all thought

Mark Garrison Jan 17, 2014
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A new report out by the Surgeon General says smoking is a lot worse than we thought.

A new initiative calls for more than doubling the number of U.S. students who study abroad in Latin America and the Caribbean, and vice versa. Foreign students and their families contributed $24 billion to the U.S. economy last year.

 Austin has banned watering lawns and raised rates for city water. So affluent residents are drilling private wells.

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