Climate Change Deniers Tend To Embrace Free Market, Conspiracy Theories, Study Finds :: What do conspiracy theorists and free market ideologues have in common? They both deny climate change, according to a recent psychological study conducted by the University of Western Australia.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378708/20120829/climate-change-conspiracy-theory-free-market.htm
To Aid Aer Lingus Bid, Ryanair Asks For More Competition :: Ryanair Holdings (Nasdaq: RYAAY), Europe's largest discount airline company by passengers, is asking for some help from rivals in its third attempt to buy Aer Lingus Group PLC (London: AERL).
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378637/20120829/ryanair-aer-lingus-takeover-regulators.htm
European markets at close: 29.08.2012 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/7vfO_qw-3Qk/
The Top 5 Indebted States In The US :: America's 50 state governments owe a total of $4.19 trillion, including outstanding bonds, unfunded pension commitments and budget gaps. Here's a look at the top five states with the heaviest debt burdens in the country.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378626/20120829/top-5-indebted-states-u-s.htm
What is the gold standard? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/6x2ihpn60OQ/
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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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:• 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).• 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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Investing in our future: White House honors Dr. T. Berry Brazelton :: Investing in our future means investing in our children.
That's the message that Boston Children's renowned pediatrician T.Berry Brazelton wants everyone to hear, loud and clear.
Brazelton was one of 11 individuals from Head Start programs around the country who was honored by the White House on June 18th as a "Champion of Change." The Champions of Change program is part of President Obama's Winning the Future Initiative. If anyone has spent his life thinking about our future, it's Brazelton.
Along with guiding millions of parents in raising their children, Brazelton collaborated with Ed Zigler and Julius Richmond to create Head Start, a comprehensive early education program for low-income children that, as he says, gives "every child a chance to make the American dream come ...<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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World food prices up 10% in July :: The World Bank warns that a "historic" jump in the cost of key food crops, such as wheat and corn, will increase pressure on the world's poorest.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19431890#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Ahead of Bernanke's Jackson Hole Speech, Nervous Anticipation :: Market-watchers continued to use words like "anticipation," "expectations," "disappointment" and "excitement" Thursday, less than 24 hours ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that is being hyped up as a make-or-break moment for economic affairs in 2012.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/379175/20120830/bernanke-jackson-hole-speech-preview-anticipation-disappointment.htm
Melting Sea Ice: Bad For Polar Bears, Good For China :: As climate change warms the world's oceans and Arctic sea ice recedes to its lowest -ever recorded levels, China has taken advantage of it -- and may soon reap commercial benefits
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/379095/20120830/arctic-sea-ice-china-climate-change-global.htm
European markets at close: 30.08.2012 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/uURr43yns0Y/
Sears, Former American Icon, Will Be Kicked Off S&P 500 :: Sears Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: SHLD), which revolutionized retail in the 20th century with its mail order catalogs. will be removed from the S&P 500 Index at the end of Sept. 4, according to Standard & Poor's, after struggling to lure consumers amid the weak economy.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/379081/20120830/sears-kmart-sp-500-removed.htm
Inflation adds to Spain's woes :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/UKuEEKiiw_U/
Caterpillar Bullish On China, Expects Beijing To Step-Up Easing To Lift Growth :: Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, is confident that Beijing will step up easing efforts to drive an economic rebound and China's economic growth will probably recover this year.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/379051/20120830/caterpillar-inc-nyse-cat-china-slowdown-bullish.htm
Angola's transformation into regional power :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/4vSONiTv3Kc/index.html
July US Consumer Spending Rise Is Biggest In 5 Months :: U.S. consumer spending got off to a fairly firm start in the third quarter, rising by the most in five months and offering hope that economic growth could pick up this quarter.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/379002/20120830/consumer-spending-july-economy-confidence-jobs.htm
Antony Jenkins: Should Barclays Have a Retail Chief as Leader? [ANALYSIS] :: IBTimes looks at whether Barclays appointing head of consumer banking as CEO is right move for the bank.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378973/20120830/barclays-antony-jenkins-new-ceo-bob-diamond.htm
Valencia ups Spain bailout plea :: Valencia asks for a bailout of 4.5bn euros (£3.6bn; $5.6bn) - more than previously indicated - from Spain's central government.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19422198#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Money at Risk from Fraud, Complexity and High-Speed Trading [BLOG] :: From Ponzi schemes to high-speed trading, hedge fund manager Chris Clarke details why your money is at risk
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378928/20120830/hedge-funds-investment-mf-global-high-speed.htm
China and Germany Pledge to Solve Economic Crisis, Sign Major Deals :: Apart from a huge Airbus deal, China and Germany firm up deals in energy, telecommunications, automobile, health and maritime.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378922/20120830/germany-china-trade-agreements-eurozone-crisis-airbus.htm
Chinese Banks' Bad Loan Nightmare :: China's credit risk is probably much worse than the official non-performing loan (NPL) data suggests, according to Société Générale's China macro strategist Wei Yao.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378917/20120830/china-bank-bad-loan-non-performing-npl.htm
Air Koryo: North Korea's Strange, But Functioning, Airline :: The state-controlled Air Koryo has a fleet of about thirty, mostly older Russian-made aircraft, and flies to 14 foreign airports in six countries -- including, of all places, Kuwait.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378915/20120830/north-korea-air-koryo-airline-china-eu.htm
UK Mortgage Approvals Rise as Consumer Credit Falls :: Bank of England data shows mortgage approvals on rise in July, but consumer credit total declines
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378899/20120830/bank-england-consumer-credit-lending-mortgage-approvals.htm
Barclays Retail Chief Antony Jenkins Replaces Bob Diamond as CEO [VIDEO] :: Outgoing chairman Marcus Agius says Jenkins 'excellent track record and intimate knowledge' were the clinching factors.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378848/20120830/barclays-new-ceo-anthony-jenkins-bob-diamond.htm
Malaysian High Court Allows Lynas Opponents to Question and Review License in High Chambers :: Opponents to the rare earths processing plant of Lynas Corp. in Malaysia scored a win after a Malaysian High Court this week approved to hear the application for two judicial reviews lodged against the plant's temporary operating license (TOL).
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378843/20120830/rare-earths-lynas-malaysia-license.htm
Darker Days Ahead Seen for World's Iron Ore Industry :: Darker days loom ahead for the world's miners especially of the key steel-making ingredient iron ore as an oversupply of the key commodity could dampen the positive forecast of renewed appetite made at the beginning of the first half of 2012.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378837/20120830/iron-ore-china-supply-prices.htm
Barclays Appoints Antony Jenkins as New CEO :: The announcement of the new CEO follows a fresh investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into payments between the bank and Qatar Holding LLC.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378823/20120830/barclays-new-ceo-antony-jenkins-libor.htm
Australian Wheat Could Be Next Boom? :: With a mining boom about to fizzle, Australia may well rely on its grain sector to anchor the country's economic growth in the next few years.
And as with its mining sector, the Australia's grain sector may well enjoy a growth spurt still from its largest and strongest trading partner, China.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/378804/20120830/china-australia-u-s-grains-wheat-corn.htm
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