Payback time: Invest proceeds of 4G sale in UK science :: Authors: Imran Khan & Stian Westlake
Earlier this month the UK government pledged £600 million (US$968 million) to science projects in recognition of the country's need to develop a more high-tech economy to promote sustainable growth. The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) and the UK charity Nesta are urging the (Source: Nature)
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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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New evidence on financing equity in China's health care reform - A case study on Gansu province, China :: Conclusions:
Health care financing policies in China need ongoing reform. Given the inequity of general consumption taxes, elimination of these would improve financing equity considerably. Optimizing benefit packages in public health insurance is as important as expanding coverage, both for health care financing and for utilization management as well. Although they are progressive, out-of-pocket payments are not equitable in China and have the effect of excluding the poor from health care as they cannot afford to pay for medical care and so withdraw from treatment. (Source: BMC Health Services Research)
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New AUTM Survey Reveals University Impact on Economy :: The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), a nonprofit association of academic technology transfer professionals, has published its annual survey of university, hospital and research...(PRWeb December 10, 2012)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/12/prweb10217437.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)<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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Spain agrees Parador hotels cuts :: The Spanish government reaches agreement with unions about job losses and closures of its chain of hotels in converted castles, mansions and monasteries.
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Medicare, the beloved budget buster :: The program is the single biggest factor in the deficit over the long run. But there are no easy fixes.While President Obama spars with congressional Republicans over whether to raise taxes, advocates for the elderly have been girding for a fight that promises to be at least as intense: what to do about the rising cost of Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. The program is vital to its beneficiaries, but its expenses are growing far faster than federal revenues or the economy. In fact, it is the single biggest factor in the deficit over the long run. And with multiple forces driving up costs, there's no easy way to solve the budget problems it presents. (Source: L.A. Times - 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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Petition Pushes For Trillion-Dollar Coin To Avoid Debt Ceiling :: <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>With the so-called fiscal cliff averted, laypeople and politicians alike are clamoring for a quick resolution of the impending debt-ceiling crisis. And the most bizarre idea so far is a proposal for the government to mint a single $1 trillion coin to help pay down the national debt without raising the ceiling.</p></div></div></div>
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Occupy Steubenville Protesters Descend On Ohio Town To Demonstrate For Rape Victims, Call For Football Coach's Job :: <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>Protestors descended on Steubenville, Ohio, on Saturday to demonstrate their opposition to the possible cover-up of the alleged rape of a 16-year-old high school student by members of the Steubenville High School football team.</p><p>The alleged cover-up is attributed to school administrators and law enforcement authorities in the small town of Steubenville, where high school football is a mainstay with many residents.</p></div></div></div>
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Storm over Depardieu's 'pathetic' move :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XUzoxRYYuPs/index.html
VIDEO: Oldest Swiss bank to close over fine :: Switzerland's oldest bank is to close permanently after pleading guilty in a New York court to helping Americans evade their taxes.
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Longer Lives, Lower Incomes for Japanese Women :: When Hiroko Taguchi retired this past April, at the age of 64, from her job as an insurance sales agent, she joined the rapidly growing ranks of Japan's aging women who now outnumber their male counterparts.
Taguchi, a divorcee who lives alone, is heavily dependent on her pension to support what will likely be a lengthy retirement, given that women in Japan live, on average, about seven years longer than men. A survey conducted earlier this year by the Health and Welfare Ministry revealed that women account for 87.3 percent of Japan's record number of 50,000 centenarians.
"I am lucky I did not quit my job when I married, as was the norm for women of my age," Taguchi told IPS. Indeed, she is one of a very small number of women in Japan for whom old age is not synonymous with povert...
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Anti-Prostitution Campaign Picks Up Speed :: In a small dingy room on the edge of a brothel in west Kolkata, capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a 42-year-old former sex worker is trying to eke out a living selling cooked food in her neighbourhood, while tending to her sick husband and a paralysed son.
Despite the hardships of everyday life, Rubiya Bibi (not her real name), who was trafficked to India from neighbouring Bangladesh when she was a teenager, knows one thing for sure – she does not want to go back to prostitution.
Recalling the days when pimps and madams would force her to sleep with men even when she was sick, Rubiya Bibi says: "Poverty forced me to prostitution. But once in the trade's vicious cycle, I faced even more atrocities.
"I was never allowed to say 'no' to those who ran the brothels....
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California Planning Low-Carbon Oasis Where Cars Aren't King :: By Braden Reddall and Rory CarrollNEWARK, California (Reuters) - Vacant industrial land near salt marshes and a derelict rail bridge seem like an odd setting for the beginnings of a lifestyle revolution in scenic California, but planners in the San Francisco Bay suburb of Newark view it as just that.With an eye on the state's new land-use laws to cut carbon output, Newark's city council just voted to convert 200 acres owned largely by chemical companies into a development that should set the trend for a state bent on decarbonizing its economy, the world's ninth largest.The marshes could be turned over to birds, satisfying environmentalists, or paved over with single family homes, like most of the Bay Area.Newark planners envision something different, which might satisfy both - or neither: ...
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Greece swears in unity government :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/8e9KVZyjKDk/index.html
Concerns raised over G8 summit venue :: Diplomats are fretting over whether the five-star Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland will be up to scratch amid security and accommodation fears
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Bardot joins Depardieu's Russian exit threat :: Animal rights campaigner vents anger over the fate of two sick elephants in Lyon zoo with announcement she has decided to request Russian nationality
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Co-op bank fined over PPI claims :: The Co-op bank has been fined £113,300 by the Financial Services Authority for delaying complaints about the mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance.
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VIDEO: Economy fears over service sector :: Figures for the crucial services part of the UK economy - shops, banks, restaurants - show that the sector has shrunk for the first time in two years.
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Transocean admits guilt over BP spill :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/B7w23kW5z50/
VIDEO: Higher peak-time rail fares opposed :: The government should rule out using peak-time train fare rises to manage passenger numbers, MPs have said.
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Crisis of faith over Vatican ATMs :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/EB3LHLHeyKY/index.html
Higher peak-time rail fares opposed :: The government should rule out using peak-time train fare rises to manage passenger numbers, says the Commons Transport Select Committee.
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Transocean agrees oil spill fine :: Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, agrees a $1.4bn (£867m) settlement with the US government for violating the Clean Water Act.
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