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TruthInAdvertising.org 26 September 2013
E-cigarette companies are avoiding health claims and smoking-secession claims, either of which would invite an FDA crackdown. The television ads produced by e-cig makers Blu and Fin only promote the lack of smoke-smell and ash Is “take back your freedom” a misleading slogan for an...

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Jannis Brühl (ProPublica) 26 September 2013
There is intriguing evidence pointing at long-ago help from Moscow, and help from Western European countries In the wake of a recent Russian-U.S. deal averting American airstrikes, Syria has begun to answer questions about its chemical weapons stockpile. One thing inspectors don’t have...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 September 2013
After removing Lalit Modi, the pioneer and commissioner of IPL, from all posts due to alleged corruption and financial irregularities, the BCCI has imposed life ban on him The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has imposed a life ban on Lalit Modi, the former commissioner of...

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T Christian Miller  and   Jeff Gerth (ProPublica) 25 September 2013
We revisit the story of Brianna Hutto, a five-month-old who lost her life after a mix-up between two Tylenol products. It was an all-too-easy mistake to make -- and both the FDA and the Johnson & Johnson unit that makes Tylenol knew it had happened before OPELOUSAS, La. — On a chilly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 September 2013
Police said the current death toll was provisional, while the Kenyan Red Cross said 63 people were still listed as missing Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen of a Nairobi shopping mall was over, with loss of 61 civilians and six members...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2013
Bajaj Auto and Bajaj Electricals sought to prevent John Abraham from using the title ‘Hamara Bajaj’ for an upcoming Hindi movie, as it was a trademark infringement, in which the Bombay High Court ruled in the companies’ favour The Bombay High Court has passed its order granting permanent...

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James R Hood (ConsumerAffairs.com) 24 September 2013
Given the well-documented shortcoming of the Chinese food safety system, US Senator wants more rigorous inspections and clear labelling of Chinese chicken imports Chicken from China has been blamed by many pet owners for the illnesses and deaths their dogs have experienced after eating...

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Michael Grabell (ProPublica) 24 September 2013
Dozens of babies die every year because hospitals do not perform a simple test that detects congenital heart defects. Seventeen states have yet to require the exam for newborns On July 10, my wife gave birth to a seemingly healthy baby boy with slate-blue eyes and peach-fuzz hair. The...

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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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