Month: August 2010

You get snacks from a vending machine, but drugs too?!

CNN’s Nadia Bilchik joined the CNN Saturday AM team again this week, as she will every week, to bring the U.S. another International story that impacts the U.S.
This week she went into detail about two machines that are revolutionizing the way pharmacies work. One machine allows you to pick up your refills anytime, while the other one will allow you to speak to the pharmacist over a video phone all while getting your prescription refilled.

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Would you stay at a Hotel where you had to pay to use the towels?

Journalists Expressing Concern Over South Africa’s Proposed New Media Laws
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Nadia was back today on CNN Sunday AM. She’ll be featuring her segment on interesting International stories every week. Today, an interesting question surrounding the Tune Hotel in London. The company offers up what they call “A 5-Star Bed at a 1-Star Price”. The hotel is in a great area of London, yet it’s cheap. The catch? You have to pay for just about everything else extra.

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Celebrations subdued by the “Horror and Tragedy of this Flooding”

Pakistan’s independence

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CNN’s Nadia Bilchik sat down with TJ Holmes this Saturday morning to bring up an important topic. The flooding in Pakistan has literally put an area of that country that is the size of the U.S. state of Florida under water. Today was Pakistan’s independence day, but no one is out in the streets celebrating because of the massive recovery that is taking place there.

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