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and American Life Project.
• The study reported that privacy concerns among Americans are on the rise, with 50 percent of Internet users saying they are worried about the information available about them online, up from 33 percent in 2009. Meanwhile, 86 percent of people

surveyed have tried at least one technique to hide their activity online or avoid being tracked, such as clearing cookies or their browser history or using encryption.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- The letters and photos were beyond value -- some of the mementos Joe Quinn still had to remember his older brother Jimmy, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Now they are gone, sullied by floodwaters and charred by fires that tore through the Queens community of Breezy Point last October during Superstorm Sandy.
• From photos and letters to coffin liners and actual memorials, scores of families from Breezy Point and Rockaway -- two Queens beachside neighborhoods hit particularly hard by both events -- lost cherished reminders of loved ones taken by one tragedy that were then swept away by another.
• "Stuff is just stuff, but the mementos, they hurt you a bit more," said Quinn, a 33-year-old Army veteran who remembers one photo in particular that is now gone, taken of the two brothers arm in arm in a bar, smiling, just two weeks before the 2001 attacks.
• "Six months later, it sort of sunk in," Quinn said. "Once a week my wife and I would say, 'Hey, this picture or that letter is gone.'"
• Home to firefighters, police officers and other first responders, everyone in Breezy and Rockaway, it seemed, knew someone killed on 9/11. Of the more than 2,700 who died that day in New York, about 80 were residents of the two neighborhoods, including almost 30 firefighters.
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• PARIS (AP) -- Apparently love didn't get lost in translation for Scarlett Johansson, who is engaged to a Frenchman and onetime journalist.

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