About 1 in 8 U.S. women (just under 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
U.S. Breast Cancer Statistics - 0 views
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In 2013, an estimated 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S.,
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About 2,240 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in men in 2013. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000.
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How Nonprofits Use Social Media to Engage with their Communities - NPQ - Nonprofit Quar... - 0 views
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most (74%) use social networks as a megaphone, announcing events and activities and sharing organization-centric info.
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Nonprofits overwhelmingly (88%) said their most important communication tools were email and their websites, even though fully 97% of them are on Facebook. This may have to do with the fact that in their mind, the pinnacle of engagement is a donation (47%).
Anonymous Browser Mass Hit as Russians Seek to Escape Internet Censorship | News - 0 views
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The government's campaign for online censorship has created a backlash, with the number of Russia-based users of anonymous web surfing software Tor more than doubling in the past three weeks. The Tor network, which allows users to anonymously visit websites blocked in their country, numbered almost 200,000 users from Russia on Wednesday, compared to some 80,000 as of June 1, according to official statistics for Tor usage on Torproject.org.
New study quantifies use of social media in Arab Spring | UW Today - 0 views
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After analyzing more than 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a new study finds that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring.
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“Our evidence suggests that social media carried a cascade of messages about freedom and democracy across North Africa and the Middle East, and helped raise expectations for the success of political uprising,” said Philip Howard, the project lead and an associate professor in communication at the University of Washington. “People who shared interest in democracy built extensive social networks and organized political action. Social media became a critical part of the toolkit for greater freedom.”
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The One-Sided Problem of Oversexualization in Video Games - 0 views
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These are the “ideal forms” of each of these characters. Yet only one of them is ever viewed sexually to outsiders, the women.
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Both are genetic mutants, by any stretch of the imagination, but one is sexual, and the other isn’t.
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Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah - 0 views
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Non-alignment, as practised by Ghana and many other countries, is based on co-operation with all States whether they be capitalist, socialist or have a mixed economy. Such a policy, therefore, involves foreign investment from capitalist countries, but it must be invested in accordance with a national plan drawn up by the government of the non-aligned State with its own interests in mind.
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Streaming revenues turn the tide against digital pirates - FT.com - 0 views
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Spotify, the subscription streaming service, has more than 6m subscribers. In video, Netflix, boosted by original productions such as House of Cards , has more than 36m subscribers. Amazon, Google and now Apple, with iTunes Radio, are bringing streaming to a much wider audience
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This is – at last – translating into meaningful income. The Recording Industry Association of America calculates that revenues from services including Spotify, Pandora and YouTube went from 3 per cent of industry revenues in 2007 to 15 per cent, or more than $1bn, in 2012.
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Apple’s strategy has pleased some music companies because its streaming service also encourages downloads. But many content owners still believe that streaming cannibalises download and DVD revenues
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