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The atmosphere of the trading floor is well captured and many characters will stay with you after reading. There are no boundaries when it comes to milking a dollar “The Buy Side” in Wall Street parlance refers to those who manage the money.  They are the ones who place the ‘buy’ orders...

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Joaquin Sapien (ProPublica) 05 July 2013
The US’s system of juvenile justice has long been troubled. But recent studies have revealed a surprising new menace: female staffers at detention facilities sexually abusing the male youngsters in their care   The older authority figure wins the trust of the young target by...

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Abrahm Lustgarten (ProPublica) 04 July 2013
When the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly retreated on its investigation into water contamination in a central Wyoming natural gas field recently, it shocked environmentalists and energy industry supporters alike When the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly retreated on its...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 July 2013
Snowden who leaked details of top-secret American mass surveillance programs, is currently in Russia As expected, the Indian government on Tuesday rejected a request for asylum by US whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Snowden, who is on the run had made the request through the Indian Mission...

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Dr AR Shenoy 02 July 2013
Bollywood stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and sports icons like Sachin Tendulkar influence our food choices by fueling our desire to consume more sugar leaving in its wake an epidemic of obesity and its associated complications. This is the second of the two-part...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 02 July 2013
A recent strike in Yemen allegedly killed a 10-year-old boy. Despite months of promises of new transparency around drone strikes, the administration won't comment On June 9, a U.S. drone fired on a vehicle in a remote province of Yemen and killed several militants, according to media...

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Medical developments from around the world   Of Sodas and the Heart A case was presented at the European Society of Cardiology where a lady, aged 31, had sudden collapse with cardiac arrhythmias and very low levels of potassium in the serum. After she recovered,  the woman told her...

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Dr Nita Mukherjee 02 July 2013
Moneylife discovers an organisation that nurtures budding writers without allowing commerce to interfere with creativity Siyahi, in Urdu, means ink—the dye that traps space on paper, by way of contours of the written word, to unfetter our thoughts. It is also the name of a literary...

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Dr AR Shenoy 01 July 2013
Much of our food-related advertising panders to our sugar addiction that results in fuelling our desire to consume even more of sugar. This is the first part of a two-part series Sweet is a taste that we cherish; we are genetically predisposed like many of our fellow creatures to love...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 July 2013
Women Directors Are Smarter, Ethical and Farsighted “You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story. And the reason why is not because they’re not capable.” This was the shocking remark of a successful trader and hedge fund titan, Paul Tudor...

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The Federal Reserve is angry that the market is not following its instructions and it is no longer calling the shots. The Fed has enjoyed manipulating the market, but its success now appears transitory   Any parent knows that it is easier to give children a treat than to take it away....

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The FATF approach of mutual evaluation is largely based on the legislative measures initiated by a country to ensure compliance with its recommendations. The FATF, however, does not check the effectiveness of these legislations   The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) conducts peer...

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Christie Thompson (ProPublica) 01 July 2013
Department of Justice has defended hiring of unpaid special assistant US attorneys, who do much of the same work as their paid counterparts The Department of Justice has an opening for what could be a dream job for many newly minted lawyers: serving as a special attorney in the Office of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 June 2013
Moneylife Foundation conducted its first exclusive workshop on investing in stocks. Debashis Basu, editor, Moneylife, took the participants through how and why many investors lose money in stocks and addressed how to pick stocks safely   Moneylife Foundation conducted its 170th and its...

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Michael Grabell (ProPublica) 28 June 2013
America is now dotted with ‘temp towns’ - places where it's difficult to find blue-collar work except through a temp agency and where workers often suffer lost wages, no benefits and high injury rates   It’s 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 June 2013
The immigration reforms bill, which has been passed by the US Senate, would have an adverse impact on the global competitiveness of US companies,  USIBC president Ron Somers said   The landmark immigration reforms bill, which has been passed by the US Senate, would have an adverse...

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Insights from doing business in countries that are neighbours but are starkly different from each other East Asia is a region that many investors and economists are fascinated with. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines are the focus of this book. If...

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How do some companies create an irresistible pull for their products and services? One of the most irritating aspects of shopping in large stores, especially those selling provisions, is long, slow checkout lines. Surveys show that this irritates shoppers the most, even more than high...

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With the rainy season upon us, vehicles need utmost care. What are the things you should know? Monsoons are tough for automobile-owners as roads collapse, massive moon crater-sized potholes appear out of nowhere, humidity has its own set of issues and, of course, there is increased...

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Jennifer LaFleur, Tracy Weber  and   Charles Ornstein (ProPublica) 26 June 2013
Massage therapists, athletic trainers, interpreters and others who aren't allowed to write prescriptions apparently issued at least 417,000 under Medicare Hundreds of thousands of times each year, Medicare pays for prescriptions purportedly written by massage therapists, athletic...

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