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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Poor Oral Health Damages Economy :: Over 2 million people in the UK say they have taken time of work due to poor oral health. The UK's economy is being damaged unnecessarily with an estimated two million workers taking sick time off work due to poor oral health over the past five years. Most problems with teeth and gums are preventable with a good oral health routine, but around seven per cent of the UK's 29 million workforce have called in sick with teeth problems at least once in the past five years... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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George Lucas To Give Away $4 Billion In Disney Dough :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p><p>May the force be with some very lucky students.</p><p>Following Tuesday's $4.04 billion deal with the Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS), George Lucas has come up with a smart idea: He's giving it all to education.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/george-lucas-give-away-4-billion-disney-dough-857716
Refugees' Last Resort: Iraqis Pitch Tents In The Hague, Refusing Return To Turmoil :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Trading coffee and consolation in a ramshackle community of tents on a grassy square in The Hague, dozens of Iraqis are waiting for assistance that may never come.</p></div></div></div>
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Bookstores To Amazon: We Don't Want Your Stinkin' Books :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In early 2010, when Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) got into a nasty pricing dispute with Macmillan, the online retailer yanked Macmillan's books and e-books from its website. Nearly three years later, Amazon is a publisher, too. But as it searches for shelf space for some of its new titles, the company is getting some pretty frosty reactions from brick-and-mortar retailers. </p><p>Talk about a plot twist.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/bookstores-amazon-we-dont-want-your-stinkin-books-857680
Hollande And Netanyahu Attend Toulouse Memorial For Jewish Murder Victims :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>France's President François Hollande vowed that his government would do everything possible to battle anti-Semitism and protect French Jews as he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended a memorial in Toulouse where an Islamist gunman named Mohamed Merah murdered four Jews, including children. last March.<br /><br />Under extremely tight security, the memorial took place at the Ohr Torah school where Merah shot and killed a rabbi and three children. Merah earlier had murdered three French soldiers before he himself died in a shootout with police.<br /></p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/hollande-netanyahu-attend-toulouse-memorial-jewish-murder-victims-857681
UAW Wants Romney To Disclose $15 Million Auto Bailout Profit :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>It seems Republican nominee Mitt Romney still cannot shake the demons of the auto bailout he opposed, and a new one is looking like it is coming to haunt him just days before the General Election.</p><p>The biggest auto workers' union and several government and public interest groups are planning to file an ethics complaint against Romney, alleging "serious conflicts of interest" and calling for the presidential nominee to release information about what they say are millions he made from the industry bailout.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/uaw-wants-romney-disclose-15-million-auto-bailout-profit-857660
It's around the corner: RoadMap is this Monday! :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/M1_SaV_WJTo/story01.htm
To scale, telcos must learn from the ops community :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/C09PjJVDvdE/story01.htm
Nomura gets biggest trading fine :: Japan's biggest brokerage, Nomura Holdings, is fined $2.5m (£1.5m) for insider trading, the largest penalty handed down by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
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Ailing U.S. economy delivers a blow to 'medical tourism' :: Fewer U.S. patients are traveling abroad for non-emergency medical procedures, such as hip replacements or cosmetic surgery, ... (Source: USATODAY.com 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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How Much Inequality Is Needed to Support a Strong Economy? :: There's plenty of self-interest on display in the debate on inequality, but behavioral and experimental economic studies and other inquiries into the topic show that there's more to the issue than meets the eye.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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Healthy Eating Hindered By Parents' Work-Life Stress :: In a tight economy, with fewer jobs, many people end up working harder and sacrificing more to stay employed. A new study finds that one of those sacrifices is sometimes their own and their family's nutrition. While prior studies have implicated working mothers in providing less healthy family food environments, this is one of the first studies of family nutrition to look at fathers - in particular a population of urban fathers, who face higher rates of unemployment and under-employment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Tanking Economy May Mean Kids Suffer More Abuse (CME/CE) :: (MedPage Today) -- Rates of physical abuse and brain injury among the nation's children have risen significantly in the early 21st century, and the recent economic recession and housing crisis may be a reason why, researchers reported. (Source: MedPage Today State Required CME)
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Rwanda: Too Many Babies Straining Economy :: [Focus]Rose Mukamurigo is a 54-year-old community health worker in Kayonza district, Eastern Province. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
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America Has A Great Economic Future :: Behind the headlines, American entrepreuers are solving the country's major economic problems and building the foundation for a great future for future generations. read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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Survive Tokyo's subway sandwich :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/NAF3SuD3mgQ/index.html
Train vs. car race to Tokyo :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/aFiILdn3v_k/
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