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Only 16 percent of Puerto Rico has power 3 weeks after Hurricane Maria

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall, only 16 percent of Puerto Rico's residents have electricity, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

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But the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said the number is more like 10 percent after an outage at one nuclear plant.

Power continues to be a No. 1 priority for Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Pentagon said about the ongoing disaster relief efforts.

In preparation, the U.S. Navy's floating hospital, the USNS Comfort, arrived in Puerto Rico last week.

On Tuesday, the 894-foot-long ship departed San Juan for Aguadilla to conduct medical support operations, the Department of Defense said.

Approximately 13,600 Department of defense personnel are responding to hurricane relief efforts across Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. »

The owners of the Breaking Bad house put up a fence to stop people throwing pizzas onto their roof

Authored by avclub.com

Sometimes, life pushes even the most boring or predictable of people too far.

Not only is this behavior rude—Vince Gilligan has been yelling at people to knock it off for years now—it’s also hopelessly out of date.

C’mon, folks: If you’re going to make a pop-culture pilgrimage, you’ve got to keep with the times. »

Colorado’s 2017 marijuana sales reach $1 billion in just eight months

Authored by thecannabist.co

In 2017, Colorado eclipsed $1 billion in marijuana sales in eight months; in 2016, it took 10 months.

Year-to-date sales are up 21 percent from the first eight months of 2016, when recreational and medical marijuana sales totaled $846.5 million.

The Cannabist’s calculations for July and August 2017 recreational sales are based on revenue reported for the new 15 percent sales tax. »

Ipsos global poll: Two in three Australians think religion does more harm than good in the world

Authored by smh.com.au

A bigger share of Australians than respondents in most other countries think religion does more harm than good in the world, new polling has revealed.

It showed 49 per cent of respondents across all countries agreed with the statement "religion does more harm in the world than good".

The share in the United States who think religion does more harm than good in the world was also well below the international average at 39 per cent. »

How to Terrify the Fearless

Authored by healthland.time.com

It progressively destroys the amygdala, the almond-shaped part of the brain that researchers believe is the anatomical seat of fear.

While SM did feel some fear during her childhood before the disease progressed, after age 10, she apparently could not be frightened.

SM had participated in a previous study, involving potentially terrifying experiences with snakes, spiders, an amusement park haunted house and horror films. »