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Can gadgets bring down a plane, the recession gang, Bakken by air, back to work at a monument that may not be finished in our lifetime and let winter begin!

 have to turn off iPads and laptops and cellphones because otherwise the plane will crash or get lost... or something. We really don't know; it's a policy that we continue to live with because we don't know the planes 

Now, a big brouhaha has broken out between two fairly prominent bloggers over the issue.

A couple of days go, Nick Bilton, of the 

 insisted that this is an outmoded policy, noting that pilots have replaced their briefcases of charts and papers with iPads. If the pilots using tech devices won't bring a plane down, why can't the great unwashed in the back log on?

, says Bilton doesn't know what he's talking about, and she says it in an unusually strident way, questioning Bilton's professionalism in writing an article that contains not a "single interview with anyone who is actually knowledgeable on the subject."

Which bring up an obvious question. It's 2013. Who 

 know how a seat belt buckles and unbuckles?

Was your child born during a recession? You might want to start putting  bail money away, 

Researchers focused on kids born in the early '80s and  found  some of the delinquent behaviors were more common among those kids surrounded by higher unemployment during infancy.

Teens were 9 percent more likely use pot if the region where they turned 1 had a 1 percent drop in employment during the early 1980s.

 If being fat is unhealthy, how do we explain the fact overweight people have a lower death risk than the "normal?" A new report analyzing 100 other studies  finds that those whose body mass index -- BMI -- classified them as overweight 

had less risk of dying than people of normal weight.

capturing the changing nature of North Dakota.

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Can gadgets bring down a plane, the recession gang, Bakken by air, back to work at a monument that may not be finished in our lifetime and let winter begin!


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