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Canada plays the visa card to lure foreign students to its universities

April 12, 2012

Four years ago 60,000 international students came to Canada for school now that number stands at 90,000.

Canadian universities used to find it hard to draw attention away from the U.S. when trying to lure foreign students to its business schools. Not anymore. Over the last two years, Canadian full-time MBAs have seen the biggest increase in applications of any region, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a business school association.

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Dementia cases expected to triple by 2050

April 12, 2012

Treating and caring for people with dementia currently costs the world more than US$ 604 billion per year.

Nearly 35.6 million people live with dementia worldwide. By 2030 this number is expected to double (65.7 million) and more than triple by 2050 (115.4 million). Dementia affects people in all countries, with more than half (58%) living in low- and middle-income countries. By 2050, this is likely to rise to more than 70%.

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Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Teens in the U.S. are waiting longer to drive

April 9, 2012

Teens are not rushing to get a driver’s license.

Getting a drivers license has been as much a rite of passage as the high school prom, but a new study suggests that young Americans are no longer rushing to get a driver’s license the moment they are eligible – and the Internet may be a major reason for that delay.

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Study: Mom’s obesity linked to kids’ autism and development

April 9, 2012

Kids born to obese moms are more likely to diagnosed with autism.

Kids born to obese women are more likely to be diagnosed with autism or related developmental delays than the children of slimmer moms according to a new study of moms and children in California.

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Is the printed book dead?

April 6, 2012

21% of Americans have read an e-book.

Twenty-one percent of Americans have read an e-book in the last year as of February, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That’s up from 17% in December.

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Analysis, Globalism, Latest Trend

Cities with the most global clout

April 5, 2012

New York beats out London as the city with the most global clout.

You can put another feather in the cap of New York. In the rivalry between the world’s biggest cities, New York bests London and Tokyo on a new Global Cities Index by A.T. Kearney and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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The rise of e-books in America

April 5, 2012

A fifth of American adults report that they have read an e-book in the past year.

Twenty-one percent of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them.

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Student loans still a burden on senior citizens

April 2, 2012

Americans 60 and older still owe about $36 billion in student loans.

Senior citizens are an unexpected demographic that is still burdened with paying for college and the student loans are wreaking havoc on their finances.

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America’s fastest growing group in the workforce is changing what it means to be ‘retired’

March 31, 2012

According to government estimates, the over-65 set is the fastest growing segment of the working population: More than 7 million are punching the clock.

Ailika Thomas’ husband brought her coffee in bed after she woke. It was 7 p.m., and the 73-year-old was facing a long, moonlit drive from her rural Indiana home to Chicago; Dean wanted to make the journey as easy as possible for his wife. He warmed the car and stocked it with snacks while she got dressed. When Ailika emerged from the back door in a pink-and-white pants combo accompanied by her two Yorkshire terriers, Dean gave her a warm goodbye kiss and made her promise to call at journey’s end.

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Half of all households in the U.S. own at least one Apple product

March 28, 2012

More than 55 million homes have at least one Apple product.

According to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey, half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product. That’s more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer. And one-in-10 homes that aren’t currently in that group plan to join it in the next year.

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Prescription drug abuse new scourge of rural America

March 28, 2012

Opana is the hot new prescription drug of abuse.

C.J. Coomer got good grades and played football back in high school in Houston, Texas. He was dark-haired and handsome, popular with his friends and doted on by his family.

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Eight out of 10 Americans now live in urban areas

March 27, 2012

Urban populations in the U.S. grew by 12.1 percent from 2000 to 2010.

Nine of the 10 most densely populated areas in the U.S. are out West, and eight out of 10 Americans are now urbanites, a U.S. Census Bureau report released Monday shows.

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