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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Why TV everywhere will kill what's best about TV :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Vy5vyOFLL38/story01.htm
Super Bowl 2013 Betting Odds: Point Spread, Money Line, Total And More For Game Between 49ers And Ravens :: <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 2013 Super Bowl is still two weeks away, but gamblers everywhere have already starting betting on the biggest football game of the year.</p>
<p>The San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will face off on Feb. 3 in New Orleans at Super Bowl XLVII. Both teams won their respective championship games on Sunday, and brothers Jim and John Harbaugh will battle for the Vince Lombardi Trophy</p>
<p>According to most sportsbooks, San Francisco is expected to win the title. The point spread at most Las Vegas Casinos has the 49ers as four-point favorites.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/super-bowl-2013-betting-odds-point-spread-money-line-total-more-game-between-49ers-ravens-1028144
Opera Solutions' Affordable Care Deal Major 'Big Data' Win :: <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 key test for so-called "Big Data" will be Opera Solutions' devising of a new fraud detection system for the state health insurance exchanges established under President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, its chief strategist said.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/opera-solutions-affordable-care-deal-major-big-data-win-1028132
Gift cards to be accepted at HMV :: HMV gift vouchers will be accepted in stores from Tuesday, the company's administrators Deloitte say.
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Phil Mickelson Taxes: Golfer To Make 'Drastic Changes' After Federal And California State Tax Increases :: <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>Phil Mickelson will reportedly make some "drastic changes" in light of federal and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/22/new-tax-increase-in-california-stirs-debate-about-adding-to-exodus/">California state tax increases.</a></p>
<p>Mickelson, a California native, told reporters after the final round of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://espn.go.com/golf/leaderboard?tournamentId82">Humana Challenge</a> that "it's been an interesting offseason."</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/phil-mickelson-taxes-golfer-make-drastic-changes-after-federal-california-state-tax-increases
Criminal crackdown on tax evasion :: More cases of tax evasion will be taken to the criminal courts as the Crown Prosecution Service steps up its crackdown in this area.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21121840#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Adobe, Darden and Other Stocks Insiders Are Buying :: <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>Insiders may sell shares for any number of reasons, but there is really only one reason insiders buy shares of a company -- they believe the stock price will move higher and they want to profit from it. Pullbacks and sell-offs provide a perfect opportunity for investors who have faith in a company to snap up shares. Here are some stocks that have seen insider buying recently.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/adobe-darden-other-stocks-insiders-are-buying-1027828
AUDIO: How will cities thrive in 2013? :: Think tank, The Centre for Cities, suggests councils should invest in housing to get the economy moving
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Glock parts company with Marussia :: Timo Glock will not race for Marussia this year after he and the team "agreed to part company with immediate effect".
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/21119720
Huawei pledges openness to woo critics :: Chinese group says it will disclose financial and shareholding information as it tries to dispel suspicions over links to the country's military
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Treasury needs more 'innovation' :: The UK economy will see "sluggish growth" for two years, unless authorities adopt a more innovative approach to boosting expansion, a study says.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/21110632#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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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A week Boeing will want to forget :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Uh33JUxT3Pg/index.html
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