AM 1450 KMMS - Bozeman's News Talk Leader » americans http://kmmsam.com Fri, 24 May 2013 12:12:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 You Won't Believe How Much Food Americans Throw Away Each Month http://kmmsam.com/food-americans-throw-away/ http://kmmsam.com/food-americans-throw-away/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:58:58 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=80793 Pretty much all of us have cleaned out our refrigerators and found a shocking amount of spoiled food — and we aren’t alone. In fact, experts now say 30 to 50 percent of world’s food goes to waste.

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]]> http://kmmsam.com/food-americans-throw-away/feed/ 0 Svadilfari, Flickr Shocking Number of Americans Suffer From Hearing Loss — Health Check http://kmmsam.com/americans-hearing-loss-health-check/ http://kmmsam.com/americans-hearing-loss-health-check/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:40:44 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=61057 Data examined over a seven-year period revealed 48 million Americans — about one in five — aged 12 and older suffer from some form of hearing loss, far exceeding previous estimates of 21 to 29 million people.

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]]> http://kmmsam.com/americans-hearing-loss-health-check/feed/ 0 metrojp, Flickr Most Americans Think Crime Is Getting Worse — Survey of the Day http://kmmsam.com/crime-getting-worse-survey/ http://kmmsam.com/crime-getting-worse-survey/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:47:04 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=58400 According to a new Gallup poll, 68 percent of Americans believe there is more crime than a year ago.

17 percent of the survey’s respondents reported there is less crime, and 8 percent believe the crime rate is unchanged. This marked the seventh year in a row that at least 67 percent of Americans answered crime is getting worse.

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]]> http://kmmsam.com/crime-getting-worse-survey/feed/ 0 Scott Olson, Getty Images Forty-Seven Percent of Americans Own Guns — Survey of the Day http://kmmsam.com/americans-own-guns-survey/ http://kmmsam.com/americans-own-guns-survey/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:07:37 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=57066 Gun ownership is at an 18-year high, according to a new Gallup poll.

Forty-seven percent of Americans report having a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property, up from 41 percent last year and the most since 1993 when 54 percent reported gun ownership.

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]]> http://kmmsam.com/americans-own-guns-survey/feed/ 0 Scott Olson, Getty Images Americans Are the Coolest People on the Planet, Says the Rest of the World http://kmmsam.com/americans-coolest-people-world/ http://kmmsam.com/americans-coolest-people-world/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:30:59 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=43874 A survey of 30,000 people in 15 nations by the social networking site Badoo.com has found that America ranks as the world’s “coolest nationality.”

Other countries singled out for their hip nature were Brazil (second coolest overall) and Spain (coolest in Europe.) Belgium edged out Poland for least coolest nationality status.

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]]> http://kmmsam.com/americans-coolest-people-world/feed/ 0 Brotherxii, Flickr Somali Pirate Hostages Killed http://kmmsam.com/somali-pirate-hostages-killed/ http://kmmsam.com/somali-pirate-hostages-killed/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:24:32 +0000 1450 KMMS AM http://kmmsam.com/?p=3627 It has been reported that the four Americans that were boarded by Somali Pirates have been killed. The Pirates were detained.

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