While cancer victims usually blame themselves — I shouldn’t have smoked, should have eaten better, should have exercised — or the cruelty of chance, they may now have a new scapegoat: Grandma. Eating poorly during pregnancy can increase your children’s and your grandchildren’s risk of cancer, even if they themselves eat healthily, a new study [...]
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Sales growth and cost cutting helped push Shoppers Drug Mart profits higher in the first quarter, the drugstore chain said Wednesday. Shoppers Drug Mart has already reduced hours at seven London, Ont., outlets in resonse to Ontario’s move to cut payments made for generic drug sales. (CBC) Shoppers says it earned $116 million, or 53 [...]
The US Federal Reserve has voted to keep interest rates at rock bottom levels for “an extended period” while acknowledging that the American economic recovery is getting stronger. The Fed has held interest rates in a range from zero to 0.25 per cent since December 2008. The official statement demonstrated that the Fed’s view of [...]
Palm, a pioneer in the smart phone business, is being bought by US computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $1bn (£657m) cash. HP said Palm’s webOS operating system would help it expand more aggressively in the fast-growing market for smart phones and connected mobile devices. When Palm’s debt is included, the deal values the company at [...]
This year’s “best places for jobs” list is easily the most depressing since we began compiling our annual rankings almost a decade ago. In the past — even in bad years — there were always stalwart areas creating lots of new jobs. In 2007′s survey 283 out of 393 metros areas showed job growth, and [...]
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On the shimmering sea, in the sunshine, or topside on a boat or yacht, appear chic and stunning. Do so by choosing the right swim or beachwear for your body. Sure, we’ve all seen those ethnic beauties who catch every eye and turn many heads, no matter her size and shape. Well you can also, [...]
Bret Michaels has suffered a setback on the road to his recovery from a brain hemorrhage last week. Celebrity Bret Michaels was hospitalized after experiencing severe headaches. While doctors have told ABC News that a “full recovery” may still be possible for the rocker and reality star, he has experienced a side effect called hyponatremia, [...]
Comparative market caps of tech companies, April 2010 For a brief moment last night Marketwatch and many other financial-watching sites got very excited: Apple had passed Microsoft on the Standard & Poor 500 market ranking. That must mean that its market capitalisation – the share price times the issued share capital – had passed Microsoft, [...]
BERLIN, April 28 (Reuters) – Consumer prices in the German state of Brandenburg stayed unchanged month-on-month and rose by 0.7 percent year-on-year, the state’s statistics office said on Wednesday. Data for six German states are used to calculate a preliminary inflation figure for Germany. The statistics office gave the following breakdown of its April consumer [...]
The European Union is taking steps to crack down on counterfeit medications. (iStock) The battle against counterfeit medicines took a big step forward Tuesday when the European Parliament’s public health panel approved a bill to crack down on a fast-growing industry worth the equivalent of $14 billion Cdn a year in Europe alone. If it [...]
If batting stations are an important part of every practice (and they are), then each station should be set up to maximize its effectiveness for batters. Pitching machines are an obvious choice for a batting station when available, and if used properly can do much to help a batter work on their swing and get [...]
A class action lawsuit representing more than 1 million women got the green light to proceed today against Walmart Stores Inc. Shoppers cart their purchases from a Wal-Mart store in Alexandria, Va., in this Nov. 2009 file… Shoppers cart their purchases from a Wal-Mart store in Alexandria, Va., in this Nov. 2009 file photo. A [...]
Goldman Sachs’ chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, is being sued by shareholders. He and other company officials have been named in two new lawsuits filed on Thursday. The cases are related to fraud allegations brought last week by the US federal government. These latest complaints were filed in the New York State Supreme Court. Two shareholders [...]
In 1995 an ambitious Frenchman from the Loire city of Saint-Étienne took a trip to Baltimore. Michel Thiollière had been elected mayor that year, and he was visiting faded industrial cities—Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Glasgow—to pick up urban renewal ideas he could apply in Saint-Étienne, a coal and textile town of 180,000 that had been in decline [...]
By Dana Ford BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 27 (Reuters) – Leading investors are skeptical a climate change bill will pass the U.S. Senate this year, though they say it is needed to provide stability and boost spending in the clean-tech energy sector. The bill’s future was thrown into question over the weekend when Republican Senator [...]
Before I even started writing this article, I knew it was going to be an easy one to write. It usually is the things we feel most passionate about, that brings out the best in us. Well, I guess it can go both ways, because there are some whose passions bring out their worst side. [...]
Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were arrested — again. Randy and Evi Quaid were briefly jailed Monday after showing up to court two weeks late for a… Randy and Evi Quaid were briefly jailed Monday after showing up to court two weeks late for a criminal case, authorities said. The actor and his wife [...]
IRAPUATO, Mexico – It’s now an established scientific fact: Smut is GOOD for you. Corn smut, that is. For years, scientists have assumed that huitlacoche (WEET-LA-KO-CHEE) — a gnarly, gray-black corn fungus long-savored in Mexico — had nutritional values similar to those of the corn on which it grew. But test results just published in [...]