LIFE


Known ideas reheated and served The book The Edge (Hodder & Stoughton; Rs350; 343 pages) starts with a punch-line: “You’ve made it! Your life’s perfect and you’re so successful at everything you do that it hurts.” Why would people need a self-help book, if they’re ‘successful’? Well,...

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How your behaviour shapes your investment decisions Consider the following popular experiment: You have two stocks, A and B. The overall market sentiment is lacklustre. Not much is happening. Stock A has gone up 5% while stock B has gone down 20%. The stocks are of two companies with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 October 2013
Increasing the smoking age to 21 would help prevent another generation in the New York city from the ill health and shorter life expectancy that comes with smoking The New York City has voted to increase the legal age to 21 for buying tobacco, including cigarettes and e-cigarettes,...

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Aditi Roy 31 October 2013
A unique network of voluntary associations working at protecting our water bodies Large stretches of rivers in India are so polluted that their water finds fewer uses everyday. Many aquifers are being similarly degraded by human use and saline ingress. The good news for us is that an...

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AC Thompson (ProPublica)  and   Jonathan Jones (Special to ProPublica) 31 October 2013
A ProPublica and Frontline examination of the multibillion-dollar assisted living industry reveals a mishmash of minimal state regulation and no involvement by federal officials A version of this story was co-published by "Frontline."   Workers found 82-year-old Vincenzina Pontoni...

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AC Thompson (ProPublica)  and   Jonathan Jones (Special to ProPublica) 31 October 2013
A ProPublica and Frontline examination of the multibillion-dollar assisted living industry reveals a mishmash of minimal state regulation and no involvement by federal officials A version of this story was co-published by "Frontline."   Workers found 82-year-old Vincenzina Pontoni...

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The ‘right’ thinking people in the pharmaceutical lobby must have had a brilliant idea: why not use the Chinese red yeast rice plant to block essential cholesterol from the liver? Small plants survive very precariously in a valley in north China, where the environment is cold, dark,...

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Medical developments from around the world Ugly Side of Statins Researchers from Ireland undertook an objective review of the PubMed, EM-BASE and Cochrane review databases relating to statins. Lifestyle modifications trumped statins hands down. For a drug that does precious little for...

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Jake Bernstein (ProPublica) 29 October 2013
Ex-New York Fed examiner fired after criticizing Goldman Sachs has advice for Janet Yellen: It will take tough oversight to stop the next financial crisis Former bank examiner Carmen Segarra vaulted into public consciousness earlier this month when she filed a wrongful termination...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 28 October 2013
Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services have touted a new tool on Healthcare.gov that allows users to "window shop" without logging on. The tool, however, has been found to be wildly misleading In the early days of Healthcare.gov, I praised the Centers for Medicare...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 October 2013
Many housing societies are keen for redevelopment but they cannot go for redevelopment for want of conveyance. Advocate KK Ramani, an expert on realty issues, speaking at a Moneylife Foundation seminar, explained the intricacies of the laws governing housing societies   Many builders...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 25 October 2013
Health and Human Services asked for comments about its website. It got them by the hundreds. Consumers and insurance agents say they were stymied, and one applicant said he and his wife were wrongly listed as incarcerated - then denied   Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Health...

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Justin Elliott  and   Theodoric Meyer (ProPublica) 24 October 2013
The agency, President Obama, and members of Congress have all said NSA spying programs have thwarted more than 50 terrorist plots. But there's no evidence the claim is true Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first revelations about sweeping government surveillance, President Obama shot...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 23 October 2013
It was the Twitter equivalent of blurbing a book using the one positive line from a review that actually trashed the book, the Washington correspondent says Last week, Ryan Lizza, a Washington correspondent with the New Yorker, did what I and many other journalists have done in the...

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Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 22 October 2013
Critics of the Affordable Care Act rollout say its technology problems are overwhelming. Defenders point to the states, where the health insurance marketplaces seem to be working This weekend, I read two very different takes on the three-week-old Healthcare.gov health insurance...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 21 October 2013
At a recent conference on drones, manufacturers argue that drones don't kill; the people ordering them around do “I have some d-word difficulty,” said Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a trade group for makers and...

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will presumably brief Russian President Putin about the ensuing meeting with Chinese Premier Li Kiqiang and possibly impress upon the latter to use his influence on the Chinese Premier to deal with India in a more friendly and realistic basis En route to...

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Aditi Roy 18 October 2013
MelJol empowers underprivileged children by teaching them the value of savings and money MelJol, a Mumbai based NGO, was started in 1991 by Jeroo Billimoria, as a field action project of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to educate children about their rights. Ms Billimoria,...

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A handy book to make your life less cluttered and distracting In the world of publishing, self-help is a lucrative genre. After all, everyone wants to be ‘successful’ in life. With the proliferation of social media, comparisons between success and failure are almost inevitable, between...

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Charles Ornstein  and   Tracy Weber 18 October 2013
Researchers find that a higher proportion of seniors are prescribed antidepressants, dementia drugs and other medications in some parts of the country than others. Elderly Americans are prescribed medications in inexplicably different ways depending on where they live, according to a new...

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