04-Mar-2013 11:34 How

How British banking broke down :: In his latest series on BBC Radio 4, Michael Robinson discovers how British banking lost its way and finds reasons to hope it might eventually improve.
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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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How science confounded the year's gloom :: 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 and why LinkedIn is becoming an engineering powerhouse :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/247XUuGmZ4E/story01.htm

How savvy retailers sell by stealth :: The secret of how retailers sell by stealth
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Hacking Sand Hill: How the cloud will help security startups lure VCs :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/hr6OIpjx8Pg/story01.htm

Watson goes to college: How the world's smartest PC will revolutionize AI :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/ziEBbLamvfE/story01.htm

What price loyalty to your home insurer? :: How some insurers sting the customers that don't switch
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Motorola Droid Bionic XT875 Gets Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean Using AOKP Custom ROM: How To Install It [Tutorial] :: <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>Here's good news for the owners of the Motorola Droid Bionic XT875. The Android Open Kang Project (AOKP) custom ROM based on the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean firmware has been released for the device and is now available for download.</p>
<p>The new Android 4.2.2 AOKP Build 4 Jelly Bean custom ROM for the Motorola Droid Bionic XT875 is based on the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) release of Android 4.2.2. The users, who are willing to flash the custom firmware, need to have a custom ClockWorkMod (CWM) recovery installed on their devices.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/motorola-droid-bionic-xt875-gets-android-422-jelly-bean-using-aokp-custom-rom-how-install-it-1109908

How airports beat bad weather :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Nd4gO-snXYU/index.html