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Current Event 1/29/10 [] This article is about the ban of handheld phones while driving. After studying before and after handheld phones were banned in three states, there was not a decrease in the traffic crashes. A reason might be because most people switch to hand-free devices when talking. A lot of people are still texting while driving though. Texting while driving will cause a person to take their eyes off the road for a few seconds. This can cause someone to have a very bad injury or even can cause someone’s car insurance to augment. So now more states are striving to ban texting while driving, to help prevent car accidents.

Current Event 2/5/10 [] Planned Parenthood is one of the advertisement you will see during a commercial. Planned Parenthood is going to be advertising for a mother-to-be. Unlike other advertisement Planned Parenthood will not be encouraging someone to buy a product or service but to know that women have the last word on their health and also their unborn childs. This advertisement during the super bowl will get many mother-to-be attention and hopefully turn them away from getting an abortion. If mothers-to-be turn away from getting an abortion then many abortionist will lose out on work.

Current 2/12/10 [] Body scanners are going againt Muslim religion groups is the topic of this current event. Most Airlines are deciding to use full-body scanners to help with security purpose. This decision will affect Islamic teaching, that no men or women should be seen by other men or women. Airlines that will only use body scanners will be affected by their decision because Muslims will not use their airlines.

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Current Event 2/26/10 [] Northeastern coastal areas is expecting another major storm starting this Wednesday,February 24,2010 through Friday. This winter storm will affect businesses in a very big way. Many businesses are going to be close for the storm and the businesses that will be open will recieve only a few customers because of the bad weather. Also this storm will affect people because some people will be unable to travel to their workplace or be able to go to other businesses due to weather conditions.

Current Event 3/12/10 [] Safety Is Issue as Budget Cuts Free Prisoners is the title of this article. This article is about putting more good behavior prisoners out on parole. By putting more prisoners out on parole this will save about 6million dollars. But in some cases saving is not always a good this. Prisoners that are put on parole will mostly likely commit another felony.For instance in illinois about 50 prisoners committed a felony soon after release.

Current Event 3/19/10 [] This article is about a senior lesbian who was denied of bringing her girlfriend to her high school prom. The prom was originally planned for April 2nd but because she is suing the school prom is put on hold. There are many people around the nation supporting the idea of same sex date and offering help on providing things that it would need, for instance, a place and some entertainment. Also there are people who are against this idea because they doesnt like the idea of same sex couples. In this case if they do decide on letting lesbian come with their partner they can lose some students from attending and if they have sponsors.

Current Event 3/26/10 [] This article is about flash mobs. Flash mobs has becamed violence. They are affecting many businesses in the Philadelphia. They have been going to malls and other locations were their are stores for people to shop. Things flash mobs have been making people not wanting to go shop because of their safty.

Current Events 4/16/10 [] Twitter rolls out ad plan. Twitters is now looking forward in making profit from all of it's popularity. Twitter will be promoting companies who are in an advertising partnership with them. Since Twitter is a social network website of many user many companies who are partnering with them will gain a lot of consumers and those who doesnt partner with them may lose some consumers.

Current Event 4/30/10 [] Surface area of gulp oil spill has triple. There was a large amount of crude oil that spilled along the Port East of Mexico. This was just south of Louisiana where theres a lot of wildlife creatures living. This oil spill will affected many business. A lot of businesses will lose consumers because this oil spill will be responsible for many wildlife creatures life. The businesses who get their supplies from this area may not have anything to sale because the oil spill may have corrupted the wildlife creatures.

Current Event 5/7/10 [] Arizona has past a new Immigration Law which will consist of Racial Profiling. The new law will allow officers to stop anyone to check and see if they’re in the U.S. illegally. One of the key points that some people have with this is that they will only stop Hispanics. Another key point is that Arizona has over 450,000 immigrants and them leaving will hurt Arizona’s economy.

Current Event 5/14/10 [] Romaine lettuces that are believed to be from Yuma are being recalled. Recent romaine lettuce harvest has been responsible for students getting E. coli poisoning. This recall has affected businesses that sell romaine lettuce because some people will be caution of buying any kind of lettuce because of this recall. A key point of this article is that people want to know what cause the contamination.

Current Event 5/21/10 [] Walmart continues to sale children jewelry knowing that it contained a very high percentage of cadmium. Many people will be rational about buying items from Walmart. Walmart actions will cause them some consumers because they were not honest about the contamination when it first happened. This action could have cause have also affected someone life by causing them to have skin problems from the jewelry.

Current Event 5/28/10 [] SEPTA subways and PATCO are thinking on the idea for companies having the opportunity of advertising their products inside of the cars and on television in the station. If this happens it could bring more money in the city and also help companies gain consumers. The main idea of this article is getting the advertisement were a large number of people will see it daily.