Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults | SurgeonGeneral.gov. This is a fact sheet of the recent full report by the Surgeon General on what is happening in teen smoking. ??The fact ? if you can keep people from smoking before age 25, it is most likely they will never smoke. ??Sadly, tobacco use ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 12:53

It's popular political strategy now to use the rising price of gasoline as a call for more domestic oil drilling, as if giving voters cheaper gas is just a matter of getting more rigs into home turf. But investors who fall for this dubious linkage are sure to be disappointed. More U.S. drilling won't lower ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 22:25

Profits are up at Foxconn. No, not that Foxconn ( + Daisey = Meltdown). When it?s not building iPads and PlayStations, Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision Industry, is the world?s largest contract manufacturer of mobile phones via its Hong Kong-listed subsidiary. The subsidiary, Foxconn Holdings (FIH), said Mar. 22 that it had swung to a ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 06:26

Following accusations by independent bloggers in Japan and Germany, the American Heart Association (AHA) has issued an??Expression of Concern about five papers published in AHA journals co-authored by??Hiroaki Matsubara, a prominent cardiologist and researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan.??In addition to his many papers exploring the basic science of the renin-angiotensin system, Matsubara was ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 16:25

Promising results from very early studies with an experimental new cholesterol-lowering drug, a monoclonal antibody to PCSK9, have been??published in the??New England??Journal of Medicine. Evan Stein and colleagues report the results of two single-dose studies in which the drug, REGN727, was administered intravenously and subcutaneously to healthy subjects. In a third, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial, ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 22:55

With the Federal Reserve holding down interest rates, plenty of cautious savers feel forced to accept puny yields. Money-market funds pay next to nothing, and most five-year certificates of deposit yield less than 1%. But investors in 401(k) plans have a richer alternative: stable value funds, which yield 2.9%. In recent years, stable value funds ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 15:55

Imagine yourself in a world where time management is no longer an issue, even on the most hectic and crazy-busy days. My friend and business coach par excellence, Lorette Pruden, recently introduced me to this world. The Importance of Routines Lorette puts it this way: "Each of us has only a set amount of creative ...

pubblicato il: 27/03/2012 - 20:26

When news outlets reported the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, I experienced a sad feeling of deja vu. I once counseled a traumatized 14-year-old African-American boy and his single mother after he was nearly shot by police in his living room. The boy, whom I'll call Jayson, stayed home sick from school. He ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 00:26

While there is concern that foreign parents may be hoodwinked into thinking that educational quality at an American public high school is as strong as at a top U.S. boarding school, the flip side, notes Simon, is that foreign parents are not sending their kids to America simply for the academics. Foreign parents believe that the cultural and language experience is just as important, however hard the adjustments to diet, climate, and remote locales. Moreover, foreign parents believe that a recommendation from an American high school teacher could make all the difference in their child gaining acceptance to a top U.S. university.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 11:54

On February 22, 2012, President signed legislation, the "Middle Class Tax Relief And Job Creation Act Of 2012," allocating $7 billion in federal funds to support the build out of a nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) based on a single, national network architecture. That stroke of President Obama?s pen may have saved more than ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 12:55