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Brazil’s strong tobacco control policies have saved more than 400,000 lives

Brazil’s policies could result in as many as 7 million lives saved by 2050.

All a part of Brazil’s strong tobacco control policies are high cigarette prices, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions and other measures that are credited for a 50 percent reduction in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010. The reduction contributed to an estimated 420,000 lives saved during that time period. Those are the findings of a new study published in PLOS Medicine by a team of researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Brazilian National Cancer Institute.

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News

Daily multivitamin does not cut risk of heart attack: Study

About a third of Americans take a daily multivitamin.

The risk of heart attack and stroke was not cut by taking a daily multivitamin in a study that followed more than 14,500 men for over a decade.  There was a small reduction in cancer risk, according to results from the study released in October.

 

 

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Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Top 5 trends that are changing how we do big data

Time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data.

It is probably time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data. There has been a surge of important news in the past couple weeks, where we are approaching a period of relative calm and can finally assess how the space has evolved in the past year. Here are the top five trends shaping up that should change almost everything about big data in the near future, including how it’s done, who’s doing it and where it’s consumed.

 

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness

Cancer comes in more shades than just pink: Studies

We have even more reason to understand breast cancer as multiple diseases.

Every year we go though a full month of pink, pink and more pink, all in the name of “breast cancer awareness.” What once was a health-related cause has become the feel-virtuous-and-buy-stuff season wedged between back-to-school and holiday gift giving.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Science & Technology News

If you are looking for a new startup idea, try farming

Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits.

Last week, in an auditorium at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, startup companies sought out investors to help take their ideas to the next level. This wasn’t a tech conference. Venture capitalists were here to check out sustainable farming.

 

 

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Analysis, Globalism, Latest Trend, Spirituality

Are we on the verge of a Holy War?

The latest bombing in Nigeria shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith.

Can you imagine the unspeakable fury that would erupt across the Islamic world if a Christian-led government in Khartoum had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese Muslims over the past 30 years. Or if Christian gunmen were firebombing mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers. Or if Muslim girls in Indonesia had been abducted and beheaded on their way to school, because of their faith.

Alternative Transportation, Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Report, Science & Technology News

Understanding why airline travel has become an expensive, annoying and cramped experience

Fewer flights and smaller aircraft leading to many more passengers per flight.

Airline travel today mostly stinks.  It is thanks to higher costs, worse service, and truly uncomfortable in-flight conditions. But understanding why life in the air isn’t particularly good takes a little work. Actually, it takes a lot of work because the Department of Transportation’s new assessment of the airline industry runs a lugubrious 78 pages and is laden with enough charts, statistics, and graphs to make Battlefield Earth seem entertaining.

 

 

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

More Americans working part-time as hours shrink and shift

There have always been part-time workers, especially at restaurants and retailers but employers today rely on them far more than before.

 The Fresh & Easy grocery store chain has opened up 150 stores in California since it was founded five years ago.  It has positioned itself as a hip and socially responsible company.

 

 

 

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Analysis, Health & Fitness, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Three out of four terminal cancer patients believe a cure is possible

A large majority of patients who receive this news don’t fully comprehend it, or perhaps willfully choose to ignore it.

Often times doctors are called on to deliver bad news to patients.  And when they deliver that news it doesn’t get much worse than hearing a diagnosis of an advanced-stage cancer for which there is no cure.

 

 

 

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It pays to code, but how long will that last?

Everyone knows that software experts make big bucks.

Glassdoor published its most recent software engineering salary report last week. It found that it pays to code. Google and Facebook employees earn a base salary of ~$125K, not counting benefits, 401k matching, stock options/grants, etc., and even Yahoo! developers pull in six figures. Everyone knows that good engineers are awfully hard to find. Demand has skyrocketed, supply has stagnated, prices have risen. Basic economics.

 

 

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