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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Co-op bank to close 37 branches :: The Co-operative Bank announces it will close 37 branches across the country, with the loss of 34 jobs, mainly at managerial level.
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Monti: UK will stay in EU :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/0No5b6gyjhY/index.html
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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US regulators warn banks on living wills :: Alert to world's biggest international financial institutions about international co-operation follows growing concerns about regulatory reforms
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Is Kat.ph Down? Torrent Sites May Have Been Knocked Offline By Domain Difficulty :: <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>Popular torrent website Kat.ph went offline Saturday night, which is not uncommon, but users began to sweat when the site was still down after almost 24 hours.</p>
<p>The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/kickasstorrents">official Twitter feed for Kat.ph</a> mentioned the site would be down for "45-90 minutes" Friday but became so inundated with questions over the next 48 hours that it responded with "Kat.ph will get back online soon."</p></div></div></div>
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Watch NFL Pro Bowl Live Online Stream, Preview, Betting Odds :: <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> </p>
<p class="p1">Neither Peyton Manning nor Adrian Peterson thought they'd be able to appear in this year's Pro Bowl, but both future Hall of Famers will have to make due in sunny Hawaii.</p>
<p class="p2">The game kicks off at 7 p.m. EDT and will be broadcast by NBC. You can watch their live online stream at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://snfallaccess.nbcsports.com/">NBC All Access here</a>.</p></div></div></div>
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The perfect murder: How Facebook will kill the phone as we know it :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/CQcaxJCGhhs/story01.htm
Banks face 'decisive' two years :: The incoming governor of the Bank of England says the next two years will be "decisive" for bank reform and warns central banks alone cannot eliminate economic risks.
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Easyjet chairman to stand down :: Low-frills airline Easyjet announces that its chairman, Sir Mike Rake, will stand down this summer.
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VIDEO: 'Two decisive years for financial reform' :: The next governor of the Bank of England has said that the next two years will be "decisive" for financial reform.
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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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'Robodocs'? 'Tricorders'? How telemedicine will shape the future of health :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/2ebHIrBmtsk/story01.htm
All My Children, One Life to Live will come back to life on Hulu and iTunes :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/pHhZ_-UF7f4/story01.htm
AUDIO: Secrecy over UK's £1m banknotes :: Carefully guarded in the Bank of England's vaults are a small number of mysterious banknotes that will probably never see the light of day, but what are they for?
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New laws to crack down on bailiffs :: New laws to tackle aggressive bailiffs will be introduced next year in England and Wales, the government announces.
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CEO: 'Dopey' U.S. will hit fiscal cliff :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/oOBt7qUBZjs/index.html
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