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Recent NewsMarch 9, 2010 HVP Recall List Tops 100 ProductsSource:Food Safetyv NewsThe nation's lesson on food ingredients has continued since late last Thursday. That was when top food safety officials appeared together at a Washington D.C. press conference to announce that a North Las Vegas food processor had... March 9, 2010 Mekong River crisis: China brushes off accusation on dams' effectSource:AsiaOneNews.comSenior Chinese and Thai officials brushed off claims yesterday that Chinese dams had dried up the Mekong River, saying China had only a small proportion of water flowing into Southeast Asia's longest river. March 9, 2010 Analyzing ‘Corporate Risk Oversight Principles’Source:Compliance Week.comIt’s way too early for nostalgia about the financial crisis. But one of the most telling anecdotes coming out of this period was from John Thain, remarking to the Wall Street Journal on his time as CEO of Merrill Lynch. “Merrill... March 9, 2010 Socially responsible investing: a primer
Source:Christian Science Monitor
Did you know you could get a better return through Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)? When it comes to money, investment plays an integral part. People are now getting inclined towards investments driven by their personal... March 9, 2010 H1N1 seen lying low, then rising again in Europe
Source:Reuters
Europe is unlikely to see another wave of pandemic H1N1 flu soon but local epidemics are likely as winter returns to the Northern hemisphere, health officials said on Monday. March 9, 2010 US school drink deal cuts sugar; NY mulls soda taxSource:ReutersA deal to sell healthier drinks in U.S. schools has slashed the amount of fattening beverages offered to students, former President Bill Clinton said on Monday as New York leaders pushed for a soda tax to tackle obesity and... March 9, 2010 Cool it on efforts against new rules, EPA chief asks
Source:Houston Chronicle
WASHINGTON — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday pushed back against lawmakers' attempts to halt the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases from power plants, refiners and other industrial facilities. EPA... March 8, 2010 EU Commission ready to propose rescue fundSource:ReutersThe European Union's executive is considering a new rescue fund for euro zone countries to prevent future financial crises like that in Greece, a spokesman said on Monday. March 8, 2010 In Deal on Everglades, a Dream Is DeferredSource:Herald Tribune.comWhen Gov. Charlie Crist announced Florida’s $1.75 billion plan to save the Everglades by buying out a major landowner, United States Sugar, he declared that the deal would be remembered as a public acquisition “as monumental as... March 8, 2010 Intel Honors 16 Companies with Preferred Quality Supplier AwardSource:TTKN.comIntel Corporation today bestowed 16 companies with its Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award. In the past year, these companies demonstrated commitment to quality and exceeded high expectations and tough performance goals,... March 8, 2010 IMF working on $100bn ‘green fund’ – Strauss-KahnSource:Engineering news.co.za.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “working on the idea of a green fund” to raise $100-billion a year by 2020 to mitigate the impacts of climate change on developing economies, IMF MD Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a... March 8, 2010 How agencies will shrink their carbon footprintsSource:Fedetral Times.comThe federal government's carbon footprint is big: 51.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. That's roughly twice the size of Walmart's carbon footprint and about one-ninth that of California. And with a new Obama... March 8, 2010 Businesses should explain lack of women on boards, says BrownSource:People Management - UKGordon Brown has called the lack of women in UK boardrooms “completely unacceptable” and called on business to explain its lack of progress on the issue. As equality campaigners mark International Women’s Day today (8 March), the... March 8, 2010 The fantasy of wind power for MarylandSource:Baltimore SunAn Abell Foundation report recently trumpeted the supposed "potential" of offshore wind to provide two-thirds of Maryland's electricity needs. Talk about hot air. With about 100,000 industrial wind turbines in operation around... March 8, 2010 After errors, global warming gets a cold shoulder
Source:Boston Globe
A series of highly publicized errors in a landmark report about manmade global warming - and lingering controversy over hacked e-mails between climate scientists - is eroding public confidence in the research and could further... March 8, 2010 KB Home backdating case has high stakes for prosecutorsSource:LA TimesTwo months after the federal government's criminal cases against Broadcom Corp.'s top executives collapsed, the U.S. attorney's office is taking aim at another stock-options backdating target: former KB Home chief Bruce Karatz. March 8, 2010 April Elections in Sudan: Democracy or Dictator's GrammySource:Salem-News.comSudan is expected to participate in the country’s first elections; some say the first in 24 years, many Sudanese declare the first EVER. To pronounce these elections free and fair is as far from humorous as it is from reality.... March 8, 2010 Scientists develop worldwide food alert systemSource:Flesh and Stone Health and Science NewsCountries producing food containing harmful bacteria and toxins could be named and shamed more quickly using a worldwide alert system devised by a team of scientists from London’s Kingston University. March 8, 2010 Climate change science: the evidence is clearSource:ABC - AUThis afternoon ABC Science broadcaster Robyn Williams delivered the 2010 Commonwealth Day address at a lunch organised by the Commonwealth Day Council of NSW at the NSW Parliament. The theme was Science, Technology and Society.... March 8, 2010 Is that SAFE for your Child?Source:Telegraph-Herald - IAWarning: Your children are at risk. Toys, clothing, furniture, so many of life's basics can hurt kids due to poor design or operator error. Emergency room doctors see everything from fingertip amputations to choking to lead... March 8, 2010 XBRL : a matching challenge towards simplificationSource:EurActiveToo few finance professionals have sufficient knowledge of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) – a tool designed for the digital communication and presentation of financial and business data – which is why FEE (The... March 8, 2010 Volcker Says Euro to Survive as Greek Budget Crisis ManageableSource:BusinessWeekFormer Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said European officials are lucky that the euro region’s first major crisis was sparked by one of its smaller members and he’s confident the currency will survive March 8, 2010 Bloomberg Says a Soda Tax ‘Makes Sense’Source:NY TimesAs the battle over the state budget and the looming multibillion-dollar gap becomes more intense, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has stepped up his call for the Legislature to pass a penny-per-ounce tax on soda to stave off major... March 8, 2010 Senators wrestle with Fed bank oversight issues
Source:Reuters
The Federal Reserve could retain oversight of large bank holding companies under a scaled-back regulatory reform plan being considered by key senators, but important questions remained unanswered, lobbyists said on Sunday March 8, 2010 Healthcare overhaul comes down to Pelosi and Obama
Source:LA Times
The fate of healthcare legislation turns on the endgame skills of two Democrats who bring vastly different assets to the task: President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama's signature ability to inspire fellow Democrats... |
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