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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 37
Sign: Libra

City: Austin
State: Texas
Country: US
Signup Date: 12/20/2005
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 

Category: News and Politics
What if a 24-hour news network devoted a proportional amount of its programming day to reporting on things that kill the most Americans each year?

During that 24-hour period, we'd see:

Nearly 7 hours of reports about heart disease, obesity, and fast food
5 1/2 hours of reports on cancer and tobacco
1 1/2 hours of reports about strokes
1 hour, 40 minutes on lung diseases, the flu (*not* Bird Flu, just the regular garden variety), and pneumonia
About 40 minutes on diabetes
35 minutes of reporting on Alzheimer's Disease
30 minutes on car accidents
About 20 minutes devoted to falls and poisonings and other household accidents
About 20 minutes of reports about suicides
About 10 minutes of reports about murders
2 1/2 minutes on drownings
2 1/2 minutes about fires
60 seconds about train and bus wrecks
30 seconds about accidental gun deaths
1 second of reporting about terrorism, both domestic and international
Not even a single second about plane crashes