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"Brain-injured veterans twice as likely to get dementia"

By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 19:26

"Two new studies — one in veterans and the other in retired football players — add to the mounting evidence linking head injuries to an increased the risk of dementia later in life.

Veterans who had been diagnosed with a brain injury, anything from a concussion to a severe head wound, were more than twice as likely to develop dementia compared to those with no injury to the brain, researchers reported today at the Alzheimer’s Association’ International Conference in Paris."

"18-year-old gives his $40,000 away"

By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 18 July 2011 19:25

"This is a story of a teenager who did something so generous — so big-hearted — that it’s making plenty of adults swoon.

Allan Guei, 18, was a star basketball player at Compton High School in the Los Angeles area before he graduated last month. He also had a GPA above 3.0, and his good grades made him eligible for an unusual competition: A free-throw contest in the Compton High gymnasium. The top prize: $40,000 in scholarship money."

"Inside the Meat-Processing Plant"

By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:35

" Unless you are a very conscientious consumer or a vegetarian, you’re implicit in the industrialized slaughter of animals. Many of us are (myself included). It’s easy to forget that the Sunday morning bacon was once on the hoof, and easy to imagine that the animals are treated humanely until their deaths. Recent journalism, like Robert Kenner’s documentary Food, Inc., and the ongoing activism of PETA, PCRA, and ASPCA has cast light on many of the otherwise hush-hushed commercial practices of meat-processing plants.

Ted Genoways, reporting for Mother Jones, covers the history of the modern meat industry in his profile of the Quality Pork Processors, Inc. plant in Austin, Minn. But what really stands out in his writing is the description of how the bloody work of slaughter is done in the post-butcher economy. (Warning: The following quotes are exceptionally graphic.)"

"Insurance firm organised sex party for salesmen"

By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:12

"One of the world's biggest insurance companies organised an orgy with prostitutes for its top salesmen at a Hungarian spa.

Ergo, a division of German firm Munich Re, has confirmed that this happened in..."

"Beware of photocopied and gang-cut coupons"

By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 19:05

" Q:"Isn't it wrong to scan or photocopy a coupon? I've been reading couponing boards and am tired of seeing people ask others to post scans or photocopies of printable coupons that aren't available to them anymore because of print limits. Some websites seem to advocate this. The store doesn't get reimbursed for the copies, right?"

A: Most couponers understand that manufacturers refuse to reimburse retailers that submit fraudulent coupons for redemption. But what, exactly, is a fraudulent coupon? And how do manufacturers find them?"

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