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MetroPCS Board Approves Merger With Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA :: url: http://www.ibtimes.com/metropcs-board-approves-merger-deutsche-telekoms-t-mobile-usa-799389

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With $14.5M, second-hand kids' clothing site thredUP looks to new verticals :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/03FoGHViTSE/

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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