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All three newscasts had fun with their Wednesday closers. ABC's John Berman mused on the "privacy paradox going mobile" posing the question: "Just because you do not want to get lost, does that really mean you want to be found?" He was doling out free publicity to Google's new Latitude application for smart phones such as the BlackBerry and the iPhone. Latitude allows the exact location of the telephone to be tracked by GPS at all times and downloaded to another phone--your parent or your boss or your lover or your spouse.
CBS' Sandra Hughes decided to take in some afternoon golf on a desert course in Nevada with world champion player Brett Sodetz. Sodetz finished seven under par in last year's championship to be crowned the best six-year-old on the planet. He drives the ball 150 yards--watch his swing--but prefers to putt--no yips. "How many days a week do you play?" "Maybe like eight days a week."
NBC closed its newscast from the Florida Keys where exotic snakes are threatening indigenous wildlife. Mark Potter told us that Burmese pythons, former pets, were first let loose in The Everglades some ten years ago. Now some have swum across six miles of sea to the Keys, where they grow up to 20 feet long. The pythons are eating the local wood rats and Key deer. They are insatiable, devouring prey as long as it is available and only digesting the food once there is no more to be eaten. Play the videostream right to the end. The best part is in the tail.
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