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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:&bull; 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).&bull; 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...<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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Jim Jones Arrested: Rapper Charged With Disorderly Conduct In New Jersey :: <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>Jim Jones was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges Wednesday after the rapper allegedly became combative with New Jersey officers asking him about active warrants.</p>
<p>Jones, 37, whose real name is Joseph G. Jones, was arrested by police in Fair Lawn, N.J., stemming from an incident about a parked car that had not been moved since the Feb. 8 blizzard.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/jim-jones-arrested-rapper-charged-disorderly-conduct-new-jersey-1087182

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Australian politics cools off on climate change – even as the temperature rises :: The 2013 poll will pit rampant denialism against grudging action based on political expediencyIn 2007, a tyro Australian opposition leader called Kevin Rudd held a summit in which he labelled climate change the "great moral challenge of our generation" and, rather optimistically, added "we should be at a stage in this country where climate change is beyond politics".Within months, Rudd swept to power in a landmark election that deposed John Howard, the long-term conservative prime minister and climate-change curmudgeon.Australia, one of the world's leading per capita emitters and the foremost coal exporter on the planet, swiftly signed up to the Kyoto protocol, with the government promising its own cap-and-trade bill. But in 2013, Rudd's idealism on the issue of climate change now appears ...
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Best Valentine's Day Apps 2013: KillSwitch Leads Pack With App That Delete Facebook Posts From Ex :: <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>Valentine's Day is upon us, and there are some cool apps for those of you who are looking for a quick (and cheap) date, or those who are trying to get over a recent heartbreak.</p>
<p>An app called KillSwitch launched in the Apple App Store and Google Play marketplace on Thursday, which is designed to help Facebook users who are still friends with their exes to get rid of all traces of those past flames from their timeline.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/best-valentines-day-apps-2013-killswitch-leads-pack-app-delete-facebook-posts-ex-1087306

Epic Records Tries To Pull Song With Offending Lil Wayne Lyrics On Emmett Till :: <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>Epic Records says it is taking "great efforts" to pull a remix of a song by singer Future that was leaked over the weekend and includes vulgar lyrics by rapper Lil Wayne about black martyr Emmett Till.</p>
<p>Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago who was tortured and shot in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a white woman.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/epic-records-tries-pull-song-offending-lil-wayne-lyrics-emmett-till-1087196