14-Dec-2012 19:14 To

Digital detox for gadget junkies :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/FP3oCToVHfg/index.html

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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Cape Town's Hollywood test :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/IrksFcYoNyI/

Too much austerity kills growth? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/WsdcpiuxYpU/

Cape Town the new 'Tinseltown'? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/BSnrPOwvqdc/index.html

Lives Saved And Profits Increased By Alcohol Pricing Policies :: Setting minimum prices for alcohol increases health and economic benefits, say international experts, who met for a seminar on alcohol pricing and public health. The meeting - sponsored by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia (CARBC) and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) - focused on new analyses on Ontario and other provinces where minimum pricing policies have been implemented for a number of years. Alcohol costs the Canadian economy $14.6 billion in indirect healthcare and social costs each year... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Is the Recession Leading to Increased Suicides? :: As high-profile news stories of suicides linked to job loss and mortgage foreclosures continue to be reported in many countries, new research is showing that the current recession can have deadly consequences in terms of increased suicide rates around the world.read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)<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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Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science :: Business secretary to deliver speech insisting that coalition focuses on maintaining long-term growthVince Cable will publicly call on Monday for the chancellor to drop any plans for cuts in spending on engineering, science and further education from his autumn statement.The business secretary will insist that the coalition must keep on investing for the long term rather than look to short-term fixes.In a speech he will say that spending with the potential to spark economic growth, including the money ringfenced for research in science and engineering, is a "basic minimum" to maintain the country's competitiveness.Cable will also add his voice to those frustrated at the coalition's totemic Tory target of cutting net immigration to "tens of thousands", by stating: "Being open for business m...
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The "New American Job:" At What Cost? :: The "New American Job" may feel to many like a betrayal of a certain social contract: work hard and you will make it. Like the land of opportunity, the white picket fence, and other American self-sustaining myths, it fuels our ambition and our drive to succeed. In this economy, a job may still be better than no job. Or is it really?read more (Source: Psychology Today Depression Center)
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Package Addressed To Indiana Jones Mailed To University Of Chicago Admissions Office :: <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>Staff at the University of Chicago admissions office wasn't quite sure what to do when they received a package in the mail addressed to Henry Walton Jones Jr. They threw up their arms, as no one at the office went by the name - or had visited the exotic locales to receive the custom stamps covering the parcel. It only began to come together when they realized Henry Walton Jones Jr. is the real name of the cinematic hero Indiana Jones, but for the most part the answers went no further.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/package-addressed-indiana-jones-mailed-university-chicago-admissions-office-938333

Apple iPad Mini 2 Features Rumors: Retina Display On The Menu As Development Continues In Asia Toward 2013 Release Date :: <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>The iPad Mini was a <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-ipad-mini-review-features-simply-not-worth-price-without-retina-display-859372">rare miss</a> for Apple: Even though the company's first 7.9-inch tablet is beautifully-built and provides a smooth and functional interface, the experience itself was dulled by the rather lackluster non-Retina display.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-ipad-mini-2-features-rumors-retina-display-menu-development-continues-asia-toward-2013-release

Real Madrid Transfer Rumors: Marcelo On The Move For Tottenham Hotspur Gareth Bale? :: <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>Real Madrid are slowly starting to turn their wheels for January's transfer session, and are now looking into several moves to make way for Tottenham defender Gareth Bale.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/real-madrid-transfer-rumors-gareth-bale-jose-mourinhos-radar-938230

Immigration To Push Up Population, But Germany Still Faces Long-Term Demographic Declines :: <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 style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="4">A massive influx of immigrants fleeing economically-crippled southern European countries could push financially powerful Germany's population by 2.2-million by the year 2017.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="4">As of July 2012, Germany had a population of a little more than 81 million.</font></font></font></p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/immigration-push-population-germany-still-faces-long-term-demographic-declines-938320

US Politicians Move To Ban 'Stalking Apps' :: <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 bill put forward by Minnesota Senator Al Franken designed to enforce tighter restrictions on software that tracks the location of individual mobile devices has been approved by a U.S. Senate committee.</p><p>The bill, known as the Location Privacy Protection Act, would make it illegal for companies to sell apps that either reveal the location of a user's smartphone to other users or collect data on the user's location without their knowledge or consent. The only exception to these rules would be in the case of parents hoping to monitor their children's activity.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/us-politicians-move-ban-stalking-apps-938237

Windows 8 Release And Microsoft's Transition To Touch Discussed In New Interview With Julie Larson-Green :: <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 a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/508311/the-woman-charged-with-making-windows-8-succeed/" target="_blank">fresh interview</a> with MIT Technology Review, Microsoft's new Windows chief has shared some insight on the company's new operating system and her experience leading the Windows team.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/windows-8-release-microsofts-transition-touch-discussed-new-interview-julie-larson-green-938228

Alcatel-Lucent Raises $2.1B Loan To Tide Over Operations :: <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 style="margin-bottom: 0in">Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), the No. 1 provider of telecommunications equipment, said it had secured $2.09 billion in new loans intended to keep its restructuring plan going.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The Paris-based giant resulting from the 2006 acquisition of Lucent Technologies by France's Alcatel, said the loans will be syndicated next month by underwriters Credit Suisse (NYSE:GS) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS).</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/alcatel-lucent-raises-21b-loan-tide-over-operations-938249