By HOPE YEN and HANNAH DREIER
Associated Press
Jun 12, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Living in a rural Nevada town, Moe Royels recalls a more bustling time years ago when retirees poured in to enjoy the warm desert climate, nearby casinos and quiet community. But soon boom turned to bust, and years after the recession ended, Royels still wonders if things will ever fully turn around in small towns like his.
Across the U.S., rural counties are losing population for the first time ever because of waning interest among baby boomers in moving to far-flung locations for retirement and recreation, according to new census estimates released Thursday.
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Published: June 9, 2013
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June 12, 2013
FoxNews.com
A South Carolina company is proposing that the state abandon regular license plates and switch to electronic plates controlled by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
David Findlay, president of Columbia-based Compliance Innovations, plans to approach state lawmakers with the conversion proposal, which is similar to a plan recently rejected in California, WSOCTV.com reported.
Findlay told the station the digital license tags can be programmed from a cell signal and are powered by solar energy and the vibrations of the driver's vehicle.
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GWEN IFILL: We return now to the story of Edward Snowden, the 29- year-old former CIA employee and intelligence contractor who's admitted leaking government secrets. Is he a criminal who put Americans at risk, or is he a hero who told Americans what they need to know about how closely their government is watching them?
We have two points of view on that from Jane Harman, a former nine-term member of Congress who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. She's now president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center. And author and journalist James Bamford, who has written extensively about the NSA and other intelligence agencies.
Welcome to you both.
JAMES BAMFORD, Author, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America": Thank you.
GWEN IFILL: So, James Bamford, is Edward Snowden a leaker or a whistleblower?
JAMES BAMFORD: Well, he's definitely a whistleblower. He's not profiting from this in any way. He's going to be harmed very severely because of this.
He's doing this because he thinks it's right, because he thinks that the public should know that the government was picking up and storing billions of their telephone records. You know, they had a debate about this in England in the last few weeks. But it was public. It was about a bill going through congress to do a similar thing.
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By Taylor Kearns 
June 4, 2013
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -
Lee Spence's entire life has been about discovery.
"My father taught me to read contour maps before I was in the first grade," said Spence.
If he wasn't making maps, he was following them, relishing even the smallest new detail.
"I'll be in the archives and suddenly find something and I'm jumping up and down and screaming because I've made a discovery," said Spence. "I get as excited as a football player who just scored a touchdown."
For decades, he's been diving down to see what he can bring up. Now, a discovery he made more than 30 years ago could be his mother lode.
About 10 miles off South Carolina's coast is the resting place of the SS Ozawa, an iron-hulled steamship that sank in the late 1800's.
Last week Spence got the admiralty or the rights to whatever's inside.
He pulled out 2 portholes and some china last week, but doesn't know what remains.
Spence is waiting for the seas to calm before he can get back down there and see what's inside. He won't know for sure until he does, but says the ship's reputation gives him hope.
"Some times it carried weapons, very large amounts of money, it carried a lot of very valuable stuff," said Spence.
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The social network wars are over. The winner: email!
Rampant innovation in email has transformed it into the best social network on the Internet.
By Mike Elgan
June 1, 2013
Computerworld - Email is old and in decline. Chat, texting and social networks are how people interact now, right?
Well, not so fast.
With every new social network and social service, with every new instant and not-so-instant way to communicate, email rises in importance. The reason is that with everybody choosing a different communications medium, email is increasingly the only one we all have in common. It's the glue that holds the social Web together.
I prefer Google+. My mom and one of my kids are on Facebook. My other kid is on Twitter. One of my nieces is on Pinterest. One of my best friends is on Path. Another is on Pheed. My dad isn't really sure what a social network is.
The fact that everybody is using a social network, and a different one, doesn't matter. I still reach them all thanks to the Mother of All Social Networks -- email.
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By STEVE ROTHWELL, AP
May 31, 2013
NEW YORK — The stock market rose Thursday after a pair of lackluster economic reports raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to boost the economy with its stimulus program.
Unemployment claims rose and an initial estimate of first-quarter economic growth was revised slightly lower. That suggests the U.S. economy may still need some time to recover from its funk and that the Fed will keep up its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases.
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“The big worry that’s been hitting the market lately, that the Fed might step back prematurely, might be fading a little today on the idea that the economy does need a bit more support,” Jeff Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, said.
The rise in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was led by banking and insurance stocks, which gained 1.1 percent. Among individual bank stocks, Bank of America rose to its highest in more than two years. JPMorgan also climbed.
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