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(CBS/CNN) - New concerns about blue fin tuna.  Radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant is now showing up on U.S. shores.  Scientist say blue fin tuna along the California coast contain radiation levels ten times higher than normal.  The radiation from the Japanese nuclear plants were carried by the tuna 6-thousand miles across the pacific ocean.  Scientists still say the tuna is still safe to eat.

Many of us use Facebook on our smartphone.  Facebook thinks they might be able to make some money off that concept.  The New York Times is reporting that the social media site is hoping to release their own smartphone by next year.  The report says Facebook has already hired several former engineers who worked on apple's iphone.  Some tech bloggers say this would be a bad idea because there's no actual need for a Facebook phone and the competition is very fierce.

The transportation security administration is looking to increase prices on airline tickets.  The TSA, backed by Democrats in the senate, wants to increase the security fee everyone pays with a ticket from as much as $2.50 a flight, to as much as $10 round trip.  TSA's budget is set to be cut and the administration believes boosting this fee would help cover the increasing price of security.

Some people are turning to their long locks into cash. The booming wig and extension business has companies looking for more hair.  In the UK, one wig shop says 50 percent of it's hair now comes from local people, before they imported from countries like china and India.  The wig industry has grown into a multi-billion dollar business.

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