28-Aug-2012 22:41

The U-turn loophole on Iran :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/TNZ7WQTZmgM/

Global banking scandals explained :: A guide to the current global financial scandals and how they are being dealt with by regulators around the world.
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Phyllis Diller's funniest gags :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/iooEJuyxWp8/index.html

Swift breaks digital song record :: The US country star sets the record for the most digital downloads in the US for a track by a woman.
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Brains behind the most viral ad :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/OZUcQy4huPw/index.html

3D movies with no glasses? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/80HDYb-L7BY/index.html

NIH Advisory Group Recommends Changes for Biomedical Research Workforce :: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) should make changes to workforce policies in order to promote the long-term sustainability of the biomedical research workforce, according to a new report by a government advisory group. NIH must address the increasing completion time for graduate degrees, low postdoctoral pay, and declining proportion of young researchers who obtain tenure-track positions.

The report by a working group of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director considered the future of the nation’s biomedical research workforce. The goal of the study was to ensure “future US competitiveness and innovation in biomedical research by creating pathways through undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral training” that attract and retain the best scientists and prepare...
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Steve Jobs' home burglarized :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/dXzB5R2psnI/index.html

Can 'the Bolt' help your career? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/GnUgLto0aMg/index.html

Want to get teens interested in math and science? Target their parents :: (Association for Psychological Science) Increasing the number of students interested in science, technology, engineering, and math - the STEM disciplines - is vital to national competitiveness in the global economy and to the development of a strong workforce. But the pipeline leading toward STEM careers begins leaking in high school, when students choose not to take advanced STEM courses. Now a new study goes beyond the classroom to examine the unique role that parents can play in promoting students' STEM motivation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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China To Spend $372 Billion To Reduce Pollution, Encourage Energy Efficiency :: The government's ambitious goals include reducing energy consumption by 16 percent per unit of GDP and lowering major pollutant emissions by 8 to 10 percent from 2010 levels.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378275/20120828/china-pollution-air-water-industrial-pm2-5.htm

Visual-Effects Artists Fear Reprisal If They Voice Support For Unionization :: Visual effects are now the foremost draw for most big-budget movies, and yet conditions for the workers who create those effects have never been worse. Many VFX artists face punishing schedules, working with no health insurance or benefits to meet the demands of effects-laden motion pictures.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378274/20120828/vfx-union-visual-effects-industry-iatse-avatar.htm

It's the economy, stupid: Why Congress is getting vocal about patent disputes :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/QlmiyrFnCIo/

New CAFE Fuel Economy Standards Raise Car Mileage to 55 MPG by 2025 :: The Obama Administration issued new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards Tuesday, which raise the average mileage of the U.S. fleet to 54.5 mpg by 2025.
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By 2013, it will be a smartphone-majority world :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/_rTXIIU05zA/

Virgin Trains starts court action :: Virgin Trains has started court proceedings over the government's decision to award a new franchise to transport company FirstGroup.
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Chipmakers beware: Qualcomm unleashes the quad-core Snapdragon :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/wnqn1hiz-9Q/

Sponsor post: Sponsormob: one partner for successful mobile advertising :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/1oxNkDeWSCs/