Why a business might thumb its nose at consumer protections

Source: SouthCoastToday.com

PHILADELPHIA — Consumer advocates have long maintained that it's a lousy idea — unwise as well as unfair — to allow businesses to impose arbitration clauses barring class actions in their ordinary dealings with customers. It's one ...
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Finding closure for families

Source: Stuff.co.nz

GLOOMY QUEST: New Zealand's police divers need to get to anywhere in the country as quickly as possible. At about 2pm last Sunday, a small dinghy carrying five people capsized on Auckland's Manukau harbour. By the evening, two ...
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Search never ends after a child goes missing

Source: The Columbian

Kimberley Kersey left school on foot in March 1987. She never arrived home, and hasn't been seen since. Jim Pine, far right, holds line while assistant helps a diver out of the Columbia River during a search for Kimberly Ke ...
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Expo targets Asian market

Source: Fiji Times

AS the demand from Asia grows each year, those in the diving industry are also looking to capitalise on the lucrative market. "We have a lot of demand from Asia and most of them are from China and Japan while some come from as far as India," ...
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Lens in hand, Khasi man scales Everest

Source: Calcutta Telegraph

Shillong, May 26: In pursuit of the right picture, he looked down on creation from the pinnacle. Thirty-year-old Shillongite, Gary Jarman Lamare, a photographer with Discovery Channel, became the first individual from ...
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Aussie soldiers get stark Afghan training

Source: The Courier Mail

SOLDIERS heading into Afghanistan conclude their final training with a confronting and ultra-realistic reminder of what can go wrong. In a darkened tent, with strobe lights, swirling smoke and a soundtrack of loud gunfire ad ...
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Canadian diver Emilie Heymans locks up 3-metre Olympic spot

Source: CBC News

Emilie Heymans won the women's three-metre final at he Canadian Olympic diving trials Saturday at the Olympic Pool in Montreal. Heymans easily outdistanced the competition to claim Canada's second women's spot in the ev ...
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DLNR ups enforcement Memorial Day Weekend

Source: FOX-KHON 2 Hawaii

The Department of Land and Natural Resources is reminding the public that it will be enforcing all state rules statewide this Memorial Day weekend, and in state harbors, parks, beaches and marine waters, in the i ...
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Study shows fish 'fraud' rampant in SoCal

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

When customers buy fish for the grill or celebrate the unofficial start of summer with sushi, many of them won’t get what they think they’re purchasing if “seafood fraud” is as rampant as a recent study suggests. More t ...
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