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Study: Social media users shy away from opinions 08/27/2014 05:46pm • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center.The study, done in conjunction with Rutgers Univ Study: Social media users shy away from opinions 08/27/2014 05:46pm • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center.The study, done in conjunction with Rutgers Univ Study: Social media users shy away from opinions 08/27/2014 05:46pm • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center.The study, done in conjunction with Rutgers Univ Study: Social media users shy away from opinions 08/27/2014 05:46pm • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center.The study, done in conjunction with Rutgers Univ Study: Social media users shy away from opinions 08/27/2014 05:46pm • ANNE FLAHERTY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center.The study, done in conjunction with Rutgers Univ Quiet day... Alaskans reject oil tax revision... New rules on securities 08/27/2014 03:18pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- Major stock indexes are little changed in afternoon trading after spending much of the day drifting between small gains and losses. It was a quiet day of trading, as investors monitored company earnings and the latest corporate deal news ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend.ANCHOR Stocks lower...CBO predicts meager growth...Lagarde under investigation 08/27/2014 11:40am • NEW YORK (AP) -- Financial markets in the U.S. have drifted lower in early trading, a day after the Standard & Poor's 500 index closed above 2,000 points for the first time. Investors bid up shares in Tiffany & Co. after the jewelry company reported earnings that were better than analysts were expec Time Warner Cable customers lambaste company over Internet outage 08/27/2014 09:11am • WASHINGTON -- Time Warner Cable customers around the country experienced Internet service problems for several hours Wednesday morning, leading subscribers to lash out on social media. "During our routine network maintenance, an issue with our Internet backbone created disruption with our Int Can Ferguson change the 'ritual' of black deaths? 08/27/2014 05:44am • JESSE WASHINGTON AP National Writer FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- The choir sang, the preachers shouted and the casket stayed closed. The body was taken to the cemetery, and Michael Brown was laid to rest.Thus went the most recent enactment of "the ritual" -- the script of death, outrage, spin and mourning China Telecom profit rises as mobile data grows 08/27/2014 03:40am • BEIJING (AP) -- China Telecom Ltd., one of the country's three main state-owned carriers, said Wednesday its profit rose 11.8 percent in the first half of the year as its Internet and mobile data businesses grew.The Beijing-based company earned 11.4 billion yuan ($1.9 billion), or 0.14 yuan (2 U.S. Nigeria soldiers who fled into Cameroon head home 08/26/2014 09:20pm • HARUNA UMAR Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigerian government soldiers, who witnesses said fled into neighboring Cameroon during a clash with a large number of Islamic fighters of Boko Haram, handed over their weapons to Cameroonian authorities and were on their way back to Nigeria, th Perry: To deter grousing, state won't pay lawyers 08/26/2014 08:28pm • BETSY BLANEY Associated Press MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- Indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday that he believes taxpayers should have picked up his legal tab but opted to use campaign funds "to keep from having folks grouse about it."The possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate told reporte Soggy start: Burning Man crews stuck at Wal-Mart 08/26/2014 03:01pm • SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Ah, Burning Man, the annual weeklong rave that draws thousands of free-thinkers to a remote spot in the Nevada desert. It's a festival so remote and bizarre that the only limit to free expression is imagination ... and that dust that always gets into After Ferguson: Calls for police 'body cameras' 08/26/2014 02:16pm • BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- What if Michael Brown's last moments had been recorded?The fatal police shooting of the unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, is prompting calls for more officers to wear so-called body cameras, simple, lapel-mounted gadgets that captu Remember Netscape browser? Class of '18 doesn't 08/26/2014 01:40pm • DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) -- If you want to feel old, this might do it: Madonna's daughter, Lourdes Ciccone Leon, has enrolled as a freshman at the University of Michigan.Leon's choice of the same university her mother once attended is one of the milestones marked this year by the