Archive for January, 2008

Middle-age is truly depressing, study finds

LONDON (Reuters) - Middle age is truly miserable, according to a study using data from 80 countries showing that depression is most common among men and women in their forties.

Yahoo! News

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Hawaii Moves To Ban Aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal, Etc)

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds it is imperative for the public health, safety and welfare to declare that aspartame and its derivative compounds, in all of their trade names, are poisonous and deleterious food additives due to their neurotoxic and carcinogenic metabolites.

rense.com

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Suing Big Companies In Small Claims Court Is Fun And Easy

typical expenditure for a small claims suit: $24 and 45 minutes. The $24 is the cost to file a claim. The 45 minutes includes his total time of driving to and from court to file, as well as the time spent on the phone with the company when they call to settle.

Consumerist

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Unfavorable drug studies don’t get into print: report

The idea that unfavorable test results are quietly tucked away so nobody will see them — sometimes call the “file drawer effect” — has been around for years.

Yahoo! News

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Fox News hates cows (spoiler alert: Fox wins)

Just write it the way the lawyers want it written…we’ll tell you what the news is

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Pay Monsanto, or Starve

Many have yet to comprehend the implications of this continuing business trend to grow, merge, centralise and consolidate.

Pay Monsanto, or Starve » Celsias

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Jeremy Clarkson stung for Fraud stunt gets punished

“The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again,” he said. “I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake.”

Guardian Unlimited

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What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC

Sometimes entertainment actually drove selection of news stories. Since Dateline was the lead-in to the hit series Law & Order on Friday nights, it was understood that on Fridays we did crime.

“You Don’t Understand Our Audience by John Hockenberry, Technology Review

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