onsdag 5 december 2012

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Airport dating: Love at first flight? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/tMhksp8NW0s/index.html

'Ideas CEO' puts creativity into action :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ExCIj_0xRLk/index.html

Insuring against catastrophe :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/AI0nK-0HEaA/

Insuring against catastrophe :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/AI0nK-0HEaA/

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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Osborne scraps 3p fuel duty rise :: Chancellor George Osborne has scrapped a planned rise 3p rise in fuel duty, as he delivers his Autumn statement.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20600442#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Need A Job? Try The Travel Industry :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </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>Are you out of work and looking for a job? According to a first-of-its-kind study from the U.S. Travel Association, workers who begin their careers in the travel industry have greater access to educational opportunities, enjoy better career progression and achieve higher wages. Moreover, though the national unemployment rate has remained stagnant, travel has actually added jobs 16 percent faster than the rest of the economy since the overall employment recovery began in March 2010.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/need-job-try-travel-industry-919495

VIDEO: 'Employment set to go on rising' :: Employment has performed "better than forecast", Chancellor George Osborne has said in his Autumn Statement.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20610228#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

VIDEO: Osborne: Britain is on the right track :: The chancellor claimed Britain was "on the right track and turning back now would be a disaster" as he opened his Autumn Statement, adding there was "much more to do".
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20610982#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

UK economy 'to contract in 2012' :: The chancellor announces in his Autumn Statement that the Office for Budget Responsibility is predicting the UK economy will contract by 0.1% in 2012.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20609683#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Live coverage: Autumn Statement :: News, comment and analysis as George Osborne, chancellor, lays out his plans to get the UK economy back on track
url: http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/12/live-osbornes-autumn-statement/?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

Ellen Grossman: Get To Know The Elderly Woman Who Had No Clue Who Jay-Z Was On The NYC Subway [VIDEO] :: <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 honor of his 43rd birthday Tuesday, Jay-Z released a new documentary, showing the highlights of his eight show tour at the newly opened Barclays Center in Brooklyn.</p><p class="p1">But the best highlight was <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gawker.com/5965706/jay+z-rides-the-subway-adorably-explains-who-he-is-to-an-adorable-old-lady">isolated by Gawker</a>, in a video showing Jay-Z becoming acquainted with an elderly woman who had not a clue who Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, was. Her name is Ellen Grossman.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/ellen-grossman-get-know-elderly-woman-who-had-no-clue-who-jay-z-was-nyc-subway-video-920515

In Ghana, A Massive Solar Plant Will Be Bright Spot On 'Dark Continent' :: <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>When it comes to energy development in Africa, the view from space says it all.</p><p>It is an image often bemoaned by energy development professionals: from afar, the continent of over a billion people seems to disappear from view when the sun goes down. Asia and the Middle East have a warm glow at night; Europe and the United States positively sparkle. But Africa, apart from a few glimmers in the far south and far north, is inky black.</p><p>Now Ghana, for one, is making a new effort to turn on the light.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/ghana-massive-solar-plant-will-be-bright-spot-dark-continent-920097

PIMCO's Investment Co-Chief Bill Gross Sees 'Seven Years Of Lean' For US Economy :: <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>A decidedly downbeat assessment of the state of the U.S. economy by one of the chief investment officers of the nation's largest bond fund was burning its way through Wall Street inboxes Tuesday, as traders and pundits discussed the bearish view of PIMCO co-founder William Gross penned in a note earlier in the day.</p><p>"You didn't build that: 332. I build that: 206," Gross, whose notes usually have a high degree of political commentary, began his note, in a reference to the Electoral College results of last month's U.S. election.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pimcos-investment-co-chief-bill-gross-sees-seven-years-lean-us-economy-919215

Juniper Networks/EIU Survey Finds Enterprises Fail To Exploit Full Infotech Potential :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div><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>No matter the quality of the hardware, software or personnel, the world's leading companies aren't living up to their potential because technology still isn't properly yoked to management, a new study found.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Sponsored by Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE:JNPR), the No. 2 provider of Internet equipment, 474 information technology executives, most of them at the senior level, were surveyed by the Economist Intelligence Unit.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/juniper-networkseiu-survey-finds-enterprises-fail-exploit-full-infotech-potential-919411

World's Oldest Person Dies: Besse Cooper Of Georgia Dead At 116 [PHOTOS] :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div><div class="field-item odd"> </div><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 class="p1">The world's oldest living person, Besse Cooper, died Tuesday in a Georgia nursing home. She was 116-years-old.</p><p class="p1">Cooper's son, 77-year-old Sidney, told <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-116-listed-worlds-oldest-dies-ga-17880031#.UL8_IJPjmz4">The Associated Press</a> that his mother died after becoming ill with a stomach virus the previous day. On Tuesday, Cooper was having trouble breathing and was put on an oxygen tank. Cooper said his mother died shortly later around 2 p.m. in the room in her Monroe, Ga. nursing home.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/worlds-oldest-person-dies-besse-cooper-georgia-dead-116-photos-920473

Record EU fine for TV makers :: EU anti-trust regulators impose a record 1.47bn euro fine on Samsung, Philips, LG Electronics and four other firms for TV price-fixing.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20608949#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Big Pharma Facing Patent Cliff And Declining R&D Returns :: <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>For most of its history, pharmaceutical companies' core mission has consisted of developing new drugs to advance medical care. But over the past several years, drug companies' return at this central task has steadily declined, which has put pressure on them to reduce research and development funding, and enter partnerships that don't require the fixed costs of their own laboratories and employees.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/big-pharma-facing-patent-cliff-declining-rd-returns-919311

Tax firms may face government ban :: Accountancy firms that help multinational business to dodge tax should be banned from working for the Government, says a senior MP.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20609963#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

VIDEO: Tesco's Fresh and Easy 'lost its way' :: Tesco is launching a strategic review that may lead to the sale or closure of its US-based Fresh and Easy chain, the company has confirmed.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20608693#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Israel's E1 Plans: Why It Is Obama Vs Netanyahu :: <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>Amid condemnation pouring in from the international community over Israel's construction plans in occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the relationship between U.S. and Israel is being subjected to an increased scrutiny for real or perceived tensions.</p><p>When five European nations — Britain, France, Spain, Sweden and Denmark — decided Monday to summon Israeli ambassadors to protest Israel's construction plans, doubts were raised in Tel Aviv on whether Washington was complicit to the European decision.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/israels-e1-plans-why-it-obama-vs-netanyahu-920257

Pickfords faces pension scrutiny :: The Pensions Regulator is to scrutinise a deal in which the Pickfords removal firm was bought out of administration while relinquishing its pension scheme.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20592674#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

KP Nuts sold to German company :: The company that makes KP Nuts, Hula Hoops and McCoy's crisps has been sold to a German firm for a reported £500m.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20607637#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Obama to lobby business on US debt limit :: As part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, the president is to ask senior executives to pressure Republicans to increase the US borrowing authority
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/caa5f726-3e95-11e2-91cb-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

Pre-Market Movers (Rio Tinto, Nokia, Facebook, BHP Billiton, Transocean, Dynavax, CBRE, Apple, Carnival Corp) :: <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>Rio Tinto Plc, Nokia Corp, Facebook Inc, BHP Billiton, Transocean, Dynavax Technologies, CBRE Group, Apple Inc and Carnival Corp. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.</p><p>Rio Tinto Plc (RIO) stock surged 3.26 percent to $51.93 in pre-market trading. The stock has a 52-week low of $41.59, a 52-week high of $63.18 and $92.88 billion in market capitalization.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pre-market-movers-rio-tinto-nokia-facebook-bhp-billiton-transocean-dynavax-cbre-apple-carnival-corp

VIDEO: Autumn Statement: Osborne's approach :: A look at George Osborne's approach to reducing Britain's debt ahead of the Autumn Statement
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20608925#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

UK service sector 'slows again' :: Activity in the UK service sector grew at its slowest pace in almost two years in November, a survey indicates.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20607630#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Climate change hits world food supply :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/NkZDuma92Pw/index.html

PMIs signal eurozone economy bottoming out :: New data show business activity is still contracting but at a slower pace than expected, lifting hopes that the worst is over for single currency bloc
url: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5361f04-3ec1-11e2-87bc-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_europe%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct

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