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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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Fears over ECB longer-term funding scheme :: With strong banks expected to repay and weaker ones in need of funds, bankers fear early repayment window will hasten advent of two-tier banking market
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With 250M users, Apple plans to invest much more in iCloud and other services :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/X8vGoNemUQg/story01.htm

With 2 million members, Storybird is 'reverse-engineering' the picture book :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/78zEI2zDh5M/story01.htm

With phone calls from real people, is devops finally getting its day in the sun? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/MaldZWtzXno/story01.htm

Dr. Oz: Garcinia Cambogia Helps Speed Weight Loss Without Diet Or Exercise :: <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>Dr. Mehmet Oz let his viewers of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/garcinia-cambogia-hca">"Doctor Oz Show"</a> in on a new diet secret.</p>
<p>"Everybody wants to know what's the newest, fastest fat buster," the board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon said on his show in the beginning of January. "How can I burn fat without spending every waking moment exercising and dieting?"</p>
<p>The answer is simply <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=garcinia+cambogia&amp;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Agarcinia+cambogia">Garcinia Cambogia.</a></p></div></div></div>
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Photo Of Obama With A Fly On His Forehead Goes Viral [VIDEO] :: url: http://www.ibtimes.com/photo-obama-fly-his-forehead-goes-viral-video-1038398

Is Giovanna Plowman Feuding With Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian And Liam Payne On Twitter? :: <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>Is Giovanna Plowman starting feuds with Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Liam Payne and other celebrities via <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> in a desperate ploy to get more famous?</p>
<p>Whoever the person is behind <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ItsGiovannaP">a Twitter account</a> that appears to be Plowman's is obsessively tweeting at pop stars, asking them to retweet her messages, then getting angry at them when they ignore her pleas.</p></div></div></div>
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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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