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Jeff Gerth  and   T Christian Miller (ProPublica) 23 September 2013
About 150 Americans die every year by accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The toll does not have to be so high During the last decade, more than 1,500 Americans died after accidentally taking too much of a drug renowned for its safety:...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2013
Bullet trains from Guangzhou city to Beijing are suspended.  Winds were strong enough near Shanwei to blow cars off the road as Typhoon Usagi, the world’s most powerful storm this year, hit China Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people after crashing ashore in southern China,...

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Fear, anxiety and mental overload are causes for obesity in human beings. How should one lead a healthy lifestyle in order to prevent obesity and bulimia? Obesity, increase in bodyweight disproportionate to the height with excess fatty deposits under the skin, has become a menace to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 September 2013
Sucheta Dalal talked in detail about how the different multi-level marketing –MLM scams have siphoned off money from India and the helplessness of authorities, including police, to fight with those having political clout Chain-money schemes like Saradha, QNet and Speak Asia are...

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Mike Webb (ProPublica) 20 September 2013
ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen sits down with Megan Twohey of Reuters to get the story behind "The Child Exchanges" investigation, which looked into how US families use Internet message boards to abandon difficult children adopted from other countries Last week, Megan Twohey of...

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Cora Currier (ProPublica) 19 September 2013
Last year a bipartisan effort to force more transparency about military aid failed after objections from the Pentagon. Will the same thing happen this year? The US spent roughly $25 billion last year on what’s loosely known as security assistance—a term that can cover everything from

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Hundreds of years ago, we used bloodletting and purging to cure. Today, we invent fictitious diseases so that specific drugs can be sold. When your conscience pricks you, sometimes you tell the truth. This is what happened to the American Cancer Society, when Dr Harold Varmus became its...

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Medical developments from around the world Consciousness: A Big Step Forward Science has realised the importance of human consciousness as the basis of health and disease. Universal consciousness might even be the key to solving human problems worldwide. Human body is immaterial,...

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Testing what really works in investing    In one of our previous issues, we had reviewed Thomas Bulkowski’s Trading Basics, part of a series called ‘Evolution of a Trader’. We now have another book in the same series titled Fundamental Analysis and Position Trading. Bulkowski, if you...

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Aditi Roy 17 September 2013
“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded,” said Swami Vivekananda. Aditi Roy writes about a youth organisation that works towards this    What started as a library offering engineering and management books in 1991...

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Swimming in the Shark-infested Waters   As the title of the book (Wiley; $19.95; 218 pages) written by Philip S Cheng suggests, it is a primer on how a retail investor can ‘tame’ money sharks. The ‘sharks’ are of two kinds: big retail financial institutions and unscrupulous advisors who...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 September 2013
A best-seller, reviewed in this magazine too, had reproduced several passages from six books without attribution   Rolf Dobelli’s Art of Thinking Clearly has sold over one million copies worldwide. Readers may recall that Moneylife had published a review of the book in its 13 June...

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The objective of the book is to explain everything about money    “Money is the root of all evil” is a common saying. Only a few people talk about matters relating to the size of their bank accounts with their own families. Many marriages fall apart because of financial problems...

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Any company that lists securities in the US, including many companies from India, China and other developing countries, can be prosecuted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Corruption is the scourge of the poor. On Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index, you do not...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 September 2013
Moneylife Foundation held an exclusive, in-depth session conducted by Raj Pradhan for the management students of Centre for Management, Bandra (Mumbai). Personal Accident, Life, Health, Car, Travel and Home insurance concepts were discussed in detail Moneylife Foundation hosted an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 September 2013
Exclusive workshop on how to be safe and smart with your money   The youth specially the ones with a new job and their own cash at their disposal have little idea of how to invest safely and smartly. Many end up falling into financial traps or invest in the wrong products. Being safe...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2013
Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan are banned for life from playing cricket, while Amit Singh faces a ban for five years. Rajasthan Royal's Siddharth Trivedhi got away with one year suspension Cracking the whip on corrupt players, the Board Of Control For Cricket In India(BCCI) on Friday...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2013
Six privacy-advocacy groups sent a letter to the FTC last week saying that the revisions violate Facebook’s 2011 settlement with the Commission The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into a set of policy changes proposed by Facebook in late August, though the Commission says it...

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Dilnavaz Variava 13 September 2013
The vast diversity of seeds developed by farmers over centuries, with special characteristics in drought or flood tolerance, taste and medicinal properties is often lost when corporate control of seed promotes a few varieties in which heavy investments have been made and high profits are to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2013
In their letter to the UN, the Syrian authorities have expressed their commitment to observe the obligations entailed by the convention even before its entry into force for the country The United Nations on Friday said that it received documents from the Syrian government on joining the...

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