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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Hobbits and hypotheses | Henry Gee :: All good tales should have a self-consistent back story. If they do, they are amenable to scientific investigation"Why?" If you have a toddler, this is a question that will assail your ears many, many times each day. Why is the sky blue? Why do people get old and die? Why am I here? To a person newly exposed to the world, everything is unfamiliar, and therefore deserving of explanation, even if the encrusted taboos of adulthood are broken in the asking. To a parent, who is old enough to have the luxury of taking everything for granted, it's infuriating. "Scientist" is a name we give to a person who has never really got beyond the toddler stage of inquiry. To a scientist, the world is still full of marvelous phenomena that demand explanation, and in which nothing should ever be taken for gr...
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Forget apps, Ford's OpenXC project will produce open-source car hardware :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/qrR93i973A4/story01.htm
HMV launches month-long 25% sale :: HMV, which revealed a half-year loss of £37.3m in December, announces a month-long sales promotion which will see 25% knocked off prices.
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What will be Geithner's legacy? :: What will be Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's legacy?
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PPI disputes create 1,000 jobs :: The Financial Ombudsman Service will take on 1,000 more staff to deal with a surge in complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling.
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No change to inflation measure :: The calculation of the retail prices index (RPI) inflation measure will not be changed, the UK statistics body says, avoiding cuts to future pension increases.
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Paper of the Month: U.S. Public Supports Policies to Improve Nutritional Impact of Federal Nutrition Assistance Program :: This month's paper is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled 'Public support for policies to improve the nutritional impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)'. The full paper is published on Cambridge Journals Online will be freely available for a limited time.
The U.S. Congress is currently debating substantial cuts to agriculture and food assistance programs included in the 2012 Farm Bill in order to reduce the country's budget deficit. Due to the ongoing effects of the global recession, a record 46 million people, or one in seven Americans, receive benefits to purchase food every month from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps. The $75 billion of annual federal spending on SNAP provides a both a cr...
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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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Steelers RB Arrested: Pittsburgh Cuts Chris Rainey After Alleged Fight With Girlfriend [PHOTO] :: <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 Pittsburgh Steelers wasted no time in cutting running back Chris Rainey after the former Florida Gator was arrested Thursday on simple battery charges stemming from a fight with his girlfriend over a cellphone.</p>
<p>"Chris Rainey's actions this morning were extremely disappointing," Steelers General Manager Kevin Colbert said in a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.steelers.com/news/article-1/Steelers-Waive-Running-Back-Chris-Rainey/e6ef20f9-3a5f-4cf7-87e4-1599b0cdb1e4">statement</a>. "Under the circumstances and due to this conduct, Chris will no longer be a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers."</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/steelers-rb-arrested-pittsburgh-cuts-chris-rainey-after-alleged-fight-girlfriend-photo-1009582
Obama To Deliver 2013 State Of The Union Address Feb. 12 :: <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>United States President Barack Obama will deliver the 2013 State of the Union address on Feb. 12, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building.</p>
<p>House Speaker John Boehner announced the date in a formal <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/speaker-boehner-invites-president-obama-deliver-state-union-address">letter</a> sent to Obama on Friday, inviting him to the Joint Session.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-deliver-2013-state-union-address-feb-12-1009542
West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller To Retire; Won't Seek 2014 Re-Election :: <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>Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is expected to announce his retirement at 11 a.m. Friday in Charleston, passing on a run for re-election in 2014, according to multiple reports.</p>
<p>As a result, Rockefeller is the first Democrat up for re-election next year to announce his retirement. He will serve out his term.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/west-virginia-sen-jay-rockefeller-retire-wont-seek-2014-re-election-1009406
Pay TV will shrink for first time in history, study says cable watching peaked in 2011 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/8sPuyyrmrEw/story01.htm
Apple CEO says China will be its biggest market :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/KXy7eVsyphY/story01.htm
France ready for intervention in Mali :: President François Hollande says France is willing to intervene – within the framework of the UN – to help Mali to halt the advance of Islamist forces
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A week Boeing will want to forget :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Uh33JUxT3Pg/index.html
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