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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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Weekly Summary on USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, AUD, CAD and RMB :: <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><strong>USD</strong> – The US dollar is stronger against most major currencies despite little major data due today and meager data from the home building sector. US home‐builder confidence for single family homes eased slightly in February from last month's seven‐year high. However, the dollar holds solid as consumers were a bit more upbeat early this month, even as they paid more for gasoline and saw an increase in taxes. In further support for</p></div></div></div>
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Brussels Airport Diamond Robbery: How Does $50 Million Haul Compare To JFK Lufthansa And Other Heists? :: <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>In one of the biggest heists ever, armed robbers made off with $50 million worth of diamonds during a brazen theft at Brussels airport in Belgium on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The diamonds were on their way to Zurich from Antwerp, where $200 million worth of diamonds go through the city every day, a spokeswoman for the Antwerp World Diamond Center told <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.afp.com/en/news/topstories/thieves-pull-huge-diamond-heist-brussels-airport">Agence France-Presse</a>.</p></div></div></div>
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How science confounded the year's gloom | Observer editorial :: Higgs boson and landing Curiosity on Mars are just two of the great achievements of the past 12 monthsIn a year that saw Britain suffer double-dip recession; when crippling debt has risen to threaten a record number of households; when the nation faces losing its triple A credit rating; and the economy of the entire planet continues to flounder, it is hard to find many reasons to be cheerful. The human species, which has made so much of its sparkling intellect in recent decades, could fairly be accused of having made a recent hash of global affairs. It is a justifiable criticism, though it ignores some intriguing contradictory evidence. We forget that some affairs went well in 2012. Indeed, when it came to scientific achievements, the year turns out to have been a sparkling one. Interplane...
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How to make the best of a bad job :: How to make low-skilled jobs more attractive
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How Samsung is out-innovating Apple :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/XVCptKNxV6g/index.html

Chinese buy up Bordeaux's wines :: How China's consumers are turning to Bordeaux
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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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How airports beat bad weather :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Nd4gO-snXYU/index.html