American authorities are afraid more counterfeits will find their way into this country, putting patients’ lives at risk.
New fears are raised that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S. after the discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United State.s
Continue reading… “Counterfeit drugs becoming big business around the world”
Survey data from 2005 through 2010 and found that, on average, 7.5 million children lived with a parent abusing alcohol during any given year.
According a new government study released on Thursday, more than one in 10 U.S. children live with an alcoholic parent and are at increased risk of developing a host of health problems of their own.
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6th fastest-growing job in the U.S. is veterinary technologists & technicians
In January, the economy added nearly 250,000 jobs, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The economy is expected to add more than 20 million jobs by 2020, a 14.3% increase from 2010 in the number of people employed, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of these jobs will be focused in a few key industries.
Continue reading… “Top 10 fastest growing jobs in the U.S.”
Photo of me demonstrating an unuual thermoelectric generator
with NY Times Correspondent Matthew Wald
Futurist Thomas Frey: On Wednesday I was invited to speak on a panel at the 2012 National Electricity Forum, an event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, in Washington DC.
Continue reading… “Dismantling of our Power Industry Infrastructure”
The United States lags well behind other advanced democracies, ranking just behind Turkey and Spain, when it comes to churning out young workers with college degrees in math and science, according to a new analysis.
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A senior administrator at Claremont McKenna resigned after acknowledging he falsified college entrance exam scores for years to rankings publications such as US News.
Nearly 30 years ago, US News & World Report debuted its list of “America’s Best Colleges”. The magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But instead they have had a much bigger affect on colleges themselves.
Continue reading… “Colleges obsess over national rankings, not students”
Marriage has been declining steadily in the USA for more than 35 years.
Many singles appear to be enjoying their unencumbered and unmarried state that two-thirds aren’t even sure they want to marry, suggests a broad national survey of the dating habits, sexual behaviors and lifestyles of 5,541 single adults across the U.S.
Continue reading… “Many single people looking for love, but marriage not a priority”
A picture of me speaking at yesterday’s TEDxReset in Istanbul.
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday I was honored to be one of the featured speakers at the TEDxReset Conference in Istanbul, Turkey where I predicted that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030. Since my 18-minute talk was about the rapidly shifting nature of colleges and higher education, I didn’t have time to explain how and why so many jobs would be going away. Because of all of the questions I received afterwards, I will do that here.
Continue reading… “2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030”
Several states already limit trans-fat in school cafeterias.
Colorado is the nation’s leanest state and it is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation’s toughest school trans-fat ban.
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Uncle Sam has been given some good news: The vast majority of Americans still believe that you should never cheat on your taxes — or, at least, that’s what they tell the pollsters representing the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.
Continue reading… “More Americans say cheat on your income taxes”
The 2012 presidential election is the most critical in the modern history of America, according to GOP candidate Newt Gingrich. And when Mitt Romney says America must change its direction, he is absolutely right. The information that follows will explain why.
Continue reading… “Is America in danger of collapsing?”
Teens are migrating to Twitter because many parents are on Facebook, but they don’t tweet.
Teenagers don’t tweet and will never tweet because it’s too public, too many older users and not cool. That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
Continue reading… “Teens shifting to Twitter for privacy”
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