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 Researchers stated on Wednesday that the commercials made to promote the fast food products are directly linked to the obese children. The research team proved that the forbiddance of such ads could reduce the number of overweight children with at least 18%.This banning also happened in countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland and the...
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 According to Lincolnshire- based human resources consulting company Hewitt Associates' latest health care trend reports that the residents in the Chicago area will experience a nearly 9% increase of the health care costs beginning next year. They will also have to help rein in employer costs as some of the companies make the workers pick...
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The National
Institutes of Health reported on Friday that, for the first time since 1991,
the number of pregnancies among teenagers increased in the US.
The report has
been carried out after an avalanche of famous teens, well thought of, gave
birth to babies. For instance, the TV star Jamie Lynn Spears, aged 17,...
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 For the first time a team of
researchers analyzed the relation between salty foods and nutritional problems
in children and discovered that salt-rich diets could be linked to obesity. It has
always been known that high concentrations of salt in the food people eat leads
to thirst and to the bodies’ tendency to retain more water...
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 More than three million 12- to 25-year-olds have tried to
get high on over-the-counter cough medicines containing dextromethorphan at
some point in their lives, a large survey found.
But only 1.7% (SD: 0.08%) of this age group, or fewer than one million, had
done so in the past year, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental...
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 Government statisticians have revealed that almost 13
million adults are risking their health by drinking too much because of a
failure to appreciate both the increasing strength of alcoholic drinks and the
trend for larger measures.
Wine drinkers and women in particular, may be at risk as the
strength of the average bottle has...
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 A recent scientific discovery has led scientist to believe
that they now hold the key to predetermining the type of chemotherapy needed
for each patient suffering from a different array of cancers especially women
diagnosed with breast cancer. The way doctors determine which cancer patients
are likely to benefit from chemotherapy is...
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 According to preliminary birth statistics released by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the teen birth rate in the
United States rose in 2006 for the first time since 1991, and unmarried
childbearing also rose significantly.
The statistics are featured in a new report, “Births: Preliminary Data for
2006, ”...
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 Health officials released a statistic on Wednesday according
to which the birth rate for teenagers increased in 2006 in the United States
for the first time since 1991, while childbearing among unmarried women surged
to the highest level on record.
Across-the-board increases in birth rates for women ages 15
to 44 drove the total...
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 Suicide rates among American preteens and teenagers have soared over the past decade, health officials said, as use of antidepressants decreased.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report Thursday that shows suicide rates among American children and teenagers rose 8 percent in 2004, the highest increase since...
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 The number of American women getting mammograms to screen for breast cancer has declined considerably, making health officials worry that the trend could worsen.
A new study published in the June 15, 2007 issue of Cancer, an American Cancer Society journal, says that mammography rates have declined in the US in the past 7 years. The...
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If the current annual increase in the number of HIV infections in Uganda go unchecked then the country's economic growth rate will be halved by 2025, medical authorities warned Thursday.
The number of people getting infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been on the increase in the impoverished East African country, from a...
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When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was relieved of his car at gunpoint in Johannesburg recently, he knew exactly where to go to get a knock-down replacement.
On an unseasonably cold summer's evening, Wahid, still wearing his work trousers and tie, walks past a string of cars in Burchmore's...
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 Beyonce tries to be an artist. And like every artist, there comes a time when you need the people to know under a stage name. She started her career with “Destiny’s Child” and became known as Beyonce when she released her first solo album, “Crazy in Love.” But now she’s ready for a change in name! “I Am…Sasha Fierce” is her third solo...
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 Madonna managed to make a hell of a show as performing on stage during her “Sticky and Sweet” Tour. One of her concerts was held at the Izod Center on Saturday night and the crowd was spectacular! Everybody enjoyed the music of the apparently “never dying” pop star Madonna. 25 years in the spotlight had brought 50-year-old Madonna a...
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 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is the junior United States senator from Ilinois, being also the first African American to be a major party’s presumptive nominee for President of the United States.
He is not a man without his own musical preferences though.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Barack Obama...
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 Canadian singer Nelly Furtado may
be expecting her second child, according to a source close to the singer, who
told Star magazine that: “She's not very far along yet, so she's trying to keep
the pregnancy under wraps.”
The 29-year-old singer with
Portuguese origins is living a romantic love story with her sound
engineer...
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Singapore shares rose Friday, making a technical turnaround on news of the government's financial support to local businesses.
The Straits Times Index rose by 2.67 per cent or 43.12 points to close at 1,657.07.
The Singapore Exchange closed with 208 gainers against 182 losers in thin trading, with volume of 934.8 million...
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Asian stock markets took heavy losses Thursday, reflecting widespread gloom about US economic troubles and another bad day on Wall Street.
Japan's key Nikkei 225 Stock Average plummeted nearly 7 per cent, ending the day below the 8,000 level.
Traders said the sell-off was the result of mounting concern over the US economy,...
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Taiwan stocks finished 3 per cent lower Tuesday as uncertainties over the island's and the global economy dampened investor sentiment, dealers said.
The benchmark Taiex index dropped 134.62 points, or 3.03 per cent, to close at 4,305.18.
Taiex opened sharply lower in reaction to Wall Street's overnight fall, caused by US...
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Shares on China's two stock markets jumped by about 2 per cent on Monday, continuing an upward trend from last week.
The key Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks shares traded in foreign and local currencies, rose by 44.05 points, or 2.22 per cent, to end the day at 2,030.49 points.
The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index also...
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High-tech entrepreneur Nir Barkat, who billed himself as the "secular candidate" was elected mayor of Jerusalem, results from Tuesday's municipal elections, announced early Wednesday, showed.
Barkat won 52 per cent of the vote, compared to 43 per cent for ultra-Orthodox politician Meir Porush, following tallies from all...
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Singapore shares dropped sharply Thursday, cooling off from the euphoria over Barack Obama's election as US president the day before as investors expected a recession to hit.
The Straits Times Index (STI) dropped 49.62 points, or 2.66 per cent, to 1819.2 on profit-taking pressure.
A total of 1.12 billion shares were traded...
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Most Arab stock markets rebounded in the last two days of the week curtailing losses they incurred earlier.
But analysts said Friday regional bourses would remain "cautious" pending developments on world markets after the US Fed's decision to slash interest rates by 50 basis points.
"I believe Arab stock markets will...
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Asia-Pacific stocks took dives Thursday amid bearish sentiment triggered by Wall Street's sharp overnight losses as well as a dismal global and regional economic outlook.
The market in the region's largest economy, Japan, also dipped as a stronger yen dimmed sales prospects among the country's export-oriented manufacturers.
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Asia-Pacific stocks soared Monday after South Korea announced a more than 130-billion-dollar package to stabilize the country's financial sector.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average was up 3.59 per cent at 9,005.59 while its broader Topix index of all first-section issues gained 3.7 per cent to close at 927.37.
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Stock markets across Asia see-sawed Friday between small gains and losses, as investors reacted to mixed signals from Asia's economies, with most markets ending the week down, not able to recover from the earlier plunge.
Countering the trend, Tokyo stocks climbed Friday after an overnight surge on Wall Street to end trading up...
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Markets across Asia plummeted Thursday, dragged down by US retail sales data and concerns about whether bank bail-outs would be able to rescue financial markets and avert a recession.
The Tokyo stock market plummeted more than 11 per cent after Wall Street's blue-chip Dow Jones industrials lost nearly 8 per cent overnight amid...
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The Tokyo stock market surged in early trading Tuesday on the heels of a jump on Wall Street with the Nikkei 225 Stock Average rising 13 per cent.
The benchmark index closed morning trading at 9,355.56, up 1,079.13 points.
The broader Topix index of all first-section issues saw a similar jump, surging 106.61 points, or 12.68...
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The Tokyo stock market surged Tuesday on the heels of a jump on Wall Street with the Nikkei 225 Stock Average rising more than 14 per cent.
The benchmark Nikkei had the largest single-day gain in Japan's postwar history, rising 14.15 per cent, or 1,171.14 points, to close at 9,447.57.
The broader Topix index of all...
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Malaysian shares dropped 3.6 per cent Friday on panic selling after dips in global markets.
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index closed at 934.01, down 34.88 points.
Losses were seen in all sectors of the economy but were particularly strong in the financial and construction industries.
Stock analysts attributed the drop to...
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Government accounts were "flowing" with red ink because of the worsening global financial crisis as well as higher inflation, overvalued housing and high personal debt at home, New Zealand's Treasury said Monday.
The Treasury forecast the budget deficit to widen to 3.2 billion New Zealand dollars (2 billion US dollars) in...
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China is failing to attract European investment as effectively as competing economies such as Russia and India and must open its markets if it wants to reverse the trend, the European Union's top trade official said Friday.
"European companies have invested more in both Russia and India since 2003. China is winning a decreasing...
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Amid what appears to be a trend in the killing of journalists in Iraq, the Iraqi Committee to Protect Journalists (ICPJ) issued a warning to media personnel to be on the lookout for car bombs.
"We call on all journalists and media staff to inspect the cars carefully before getting in the car, in case there is a bomb inside or...
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Asia's main stock markets in Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong were closed for bank holiday Monday, but the rest of the region's bourses dropped sharply on news of Wall Street's deepening financial crisis.
Taiwan's stocks shed 4.09 per cent on reports that US investment banker Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc would declare bankruptcy, and...
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The head of Hong Kong's flagship airline Cathay Pacific Tuesday warned of the need for cost-cutting as the effects of high fuel prices and global recession take their toll on profits.
Tony Tyler, the airline's chief executive, indicated in a letter to staff that further cost-cutting measures may be necessary as the US and Britain may...
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Asian stocks, led by financial issues, made major gains Monday in reaction to a US decision to take control of the two largest US mortgage lenders and guarantors, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average jumped 412.23 points, or 3.38 per cent, to close at 12,624.46 on investor confidence that the US move...
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The Hong Kong government on Tuesday was urged to ease its border controls as a means of slowing the advance in the average age of its population amid a reluctance by young migrants from mainland China to move to the city.
The appeal from Catholic priest Franco Mella came as government figures showed that the proportion of young people...
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Shares on China's two stock markets plunged by more than 5 per cent on Monday, following a similar fall on the previous trading day at the end of last week.
The key Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks shares traded in local and foreign currencies, lost 5.21 per cent of its value, ending the day down 135.65 points at...
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Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong predicted "a bumpy year ahead" Friday as the economic problems gripping the US are starting to have an impact on Asia.
On the eve of Singapore's 43rd National Day, Lee said the last 12 months were a period of economic uncertainty worldwide.
"Considering the external...
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Taiwan stocks ended 2.63 per cent higher on strong financial gains on Friday, despite Wall street's overnight fall, dealers said.
The Weighted Price Index of the Taiwan Stock Exchange opened flat as sentiment was dampened by Wall Street's sharp overnight fall, but started picking up by the mid-morning session and continued its upward...
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Pakistan's ruling coalition Thursday evening formally announced that it had decided to impeach embattled President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could send the country into yet another political crisis.
"It has become imperative to move for impeachment under article 47 (of the constitution) against General Musharraf," said...
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Thai shares jumped 4.1 per cent in value Thursday in response to falling world oil prices and an influx of foreign funds, brokers said.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) index ended at 703.87, up 27.52 points or 4.1 per cent.
Brokers attributed SET's dramatic rise, which was not seen on other Asian markets Thursday, to an influx...
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 India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won Sunday's
elections in religiously divided Gujarat state, in a key regional poll
considered an indicator for national elections, officials said.
Election Commission officials said trends from the counting of
votes in the western state showed that the BJP was expected to...
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 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Saturday marked her
release from house arrest by joining a protest rally against emergency
rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf and demanding to see the top
judge he deposed to secure re-election.
"We do not accept the curbs on the media and we demand that the
government...
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 Pakistan said Saturday that the emergency rule imposed by President
Pervez Musharraf was likely to be lifted within a month as the
opposition leader Benazir Bhutto left home for the first time since the
government ended her several hours' house arrest late Friday.
"The law and order situation is fast improving, and if the...
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US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over.
The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...
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Swedish engineering group Sandvik said Thursday it planned to cut 1,040 jobs and reduce production over weakened demand mainly in the automotive and engineering industries.
The group has some 47,000 employees worldwide and operations in 130 countries.
Its core operations include tools for metal-working, machinery and equipment for...
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The International Trade Union Confederation ITUC said Thursday that 91 trade unionists were murdered around the world in 2007, with the most dangerous country continuing to be the Central American state of Colombia.
In its 2008 Annual Survey of Trade Union Rights Violations, the ITUC said that 39 unionists were killed in...
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Defying predictions of a recession, the French economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the government's statistical office Insee said on Friday.
Following a GDP drop of 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of this year, most analysts - including Insee - had foreseen more negative growth for the period July to...
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There was mixed news on the Latvian economy Monday with official statistics recording a month-on-month rise in the consumer price index (CPI) inflation figures but a continuing downward trend year-on-year.
The Latvian Central Statistical Bureau said that compared to September 2008 inflation for October 2008 rose by 1.2 per cent to...
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Estonia's consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, according to statistics released Monday.
Prices in the Baltic nation rose by 10.9 per cent compared to the previous third quarter.
The latest figures were mainly influenced by price increases of alcoholic beverages and tobacco, but were mollified...
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For the first time in more than two decades, Dutch residential real estate prices have dropped, the largest Dutch real estate brokers' association NVM is reporting.
NVM chairman Ger Hukker said the drop was "understandable" considering the credit crisis.
Dutch banks were now reluctant to provide mortgages, negatively...
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European stock markets put in a mixed performance on Tuesday as uncertainty about the strength of the continent's banks continued to unsettle investors.
After recovering some of Monday's losses in early trading, most major indexes slumped amid rumours that major British banks had sought a financial injection from the government.
In...
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World demand for machinery is slumping fast, according to Germany's VDMA federation of machinery and plant builders in Frankfurt Wednesday.
In the latest sign of recession, it said orders from abroad in August were down 19 per cent in price-neutral terms compared to one year before. Domestic orders rose 6 per cent in the same...
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The Madrid stock market maintained a downward trend on Tuesday, though
the Ibex-35 main index began to recover after dipping 2.3 per cent in
reaction to the turmoil on Wall Street.
The Santander bank fell 3.15 per cent, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
Argentaria (BBVA) 2 per cent, the oil company Repsol 1.81 per cent and
the...
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Photography-mad families in Germany are buying children their own cameras as gifts to celebrate the first day at school, an industry group said Wednesday at the Photokina trade show in Cologne.
Rainer Schmidt, secretary of the German photo industry federation PIV, said in an interview that the days when each family had only one...
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Prime Minister Janez Jansa may seek a recount after Slovenia's centre-left opposition took a one-seat lead in parliamentary elections, media reports said Monday.
Social Democrats won the most votes in Sunday's voting and, while absentee ballots were still being counted, seemed poised to take power in the European Union nation of 2...
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Rising food prices has increased by 75 million the number of people facing famine in the world bringing the total to 923 million in 2007, a UN agency reported Thursday.
The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said the increase in the number of hungry people - 907 million of whom live in developing countries - was the...
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The collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers reverberated in Italy's financial capital of Milan where the stock exchange plunged nearly 3.6 per cent by midday Monday.
The downward trend was led by the country's two largest banks, Unicredit and Intesa San Paolo, which fell 5.54 and 4.3 per cent respectively.
Other losers including...
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Declining demand in its European neighbours put a dent in German exports in July, while imports rose strongly, according to official figures from the federal statistics office on Tuesday.
Exports fell 1.7 per cent from the June level, on a seasonally adjusted basis, with analysts blaming the strength of the euro and high oil prices,...
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Financial stocks led a rally on almost all world stock markets Monday, caused by the US government's decision to take control of embattled mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The only significant market indices to buck the trend were China's Shanghai Composite and the smaller Shenzhen Component, which fell 2.7 and 3.0 per...
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Germany's key banking association added its voice Wednesday to the growing list of groups ruling out a sharp downturn in Europe's biggest economy this year.
German Banking Association chief Manfred Weber conceded that the global credit crunch, slackening world growth and resurgent inflation were likely to result in the nation turning...
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 A PR adjustment for Nicolas Sarkozy has brought smiles on
everyone’s faces. Though they may be ironic grins from the opposition or
genuine liking smile, Sarkozy’s image achievement brought him in the public eye
again.
Paris-Match magazine does miracle work when it comes to
friends - this is what might explain how the photos...
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Bayern Munich's Chief Executive Officer Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said Monday he again expects English clubs to dominate the Champions League, which is starting this week.
He also voiced fears that the Bundesliga would slip further behind.
"The English are, at the moment, ahead of the rest of Europe. Against teams like...
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The Mediterranean Sea shark population fell 97 percent in the past two centuries and 19 shark species face extinction, researchers have concluded.
Graduate student Francesco Ferretti, two colleagues at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and an Italian researcher collected data from university and other archival sources, as well as...
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 According to “Are New Yorkers Having Safe Sex?”, a Health
Department report published on Tuesday, 40 percent of New York residents who have had multiple
partners in the past year didn’t use a condom the last time they had sexual
relationships.
Furthermore, the report demonstrates that 36 percent of New York homosexual men
who have...
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The market for food allergy and intolerance products is expanding
quickly, helped by more diagnosed cases of allergic reactions. This market is expected
to reach $3.9 billion this year, according to Packaged Facts, a New
York research firm. And the market for gluten-free
foods and drinks is to hit $1.3 billion by 2010, up from $700...
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 Last Friday marked the beginning of the summer travel season, but things do not sound too good for travelers, since several airlines announced more or higher fees.Previously this week American Airlines announced that it would begin implementing a 15 dollars fee for travelers’ first checked bag, that is passengers would be charged for all...
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 According to a recent report from the New York Times, blogging doesn’t just mean a job or a hobby anymore, as it is being turned into a lifestyle trend. And it seems that it isn’t such a healthy lifestyle to have. The long hours spent in front of the monitor, always reading, always writing, looking for information, thinking of ways to...
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 Even though CBS’ musical series “Viva Laughlin” proved to be
a flop and was canceled, Hugh Jackman didn’t hesitate to get involved in a new
project.
Virgin Comics and the actor have struck an agreement to
release a new comic book series called “Nowhere Man,” as Virgin said in a
statement on Tuesday.
Australian actor Hugh...
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 GlaxoSmithKline will not be prosecuted for not informing UK regulators about safety issues concerning its drug Seroxat. The British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has announced that the decision was taken because there was "no realistic prospect of a conviction in this case," as the legislation at the time,...
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 Oprah Winfrey has done a lot of remarkable things in
television and firstly, we should note her talk show’s outstanding popularity
in a TV world marked by white male hosts. Then we should note that her book
club set reading again as trend also assorting certain titles in worthy and
unworthy. Winfrey has her own network and founded a...
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 Actress Moon Bloodgood is reportedly in final talks for a
female lead in McG’s “Terminator Salvation: The Future begins.” After signing
the contract, she will play the role of a veteran member of John Conner’s
resistance. Her partners in the movie will be Christian Bale, Sam Worthington
and Anton Yelchin, according to The Hollywood...
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 Doug Liman's sci-fi thriller topped the box office revenues chart with $27 million, smoking by around $7 million Disney's teen dance sequel, "Step Up 2 the Streets." Media By Numbers LLC reported that, according to its estimates, third came The Spiderwick Chronicles with just a few hundreds of thousands in revenues behind Step...
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 Apple announced on Tuesday that its online music store, iTunes became the second largest music retailer in the United States, closely trailing Wal- Mart.Based on the data provided by market research firm the NPD Group's MusicWatch survey, which gathers information on consumer reported past week unit purchases, iTunes capped rivals such...
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 Beware of strange Valentine’s Day
e-cards, they might carry the highly dangerous Storm Worm with them!
On Tuesday, Google made public
the results of a survey that showed that people were more and more likely to
embrace email to send love letters or so-called e-cards. So, with Valentine’s
Day coming, this habit might lead to...
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 Heads are expected to roll in Australia after nine Aborigines who
pleaded guilty to the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl were set free by
a court in far-north Queensland.
There were calls Tuesday for the judge and the crown prosecutor to
be sacked after a transcript of the proceedings revealed the former
said the girl...
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Taiwan stocks plunged 2.73 per cent Thursday amid heavy selling triggered by US financial turmoil and Wall Street's sharp fall overnight, dealers said.
The Weighted Price Index of Taiwan Stock Exchange opened down 4.19 per cent as jittery investors dumped their holdings, but government funds soon moved in to buy heavily to ease the...
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