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April 18, 2008 Hot Trends
Obama Tackles High Prescription Drug Co-Payments
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:05:42 PDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Linda Springer, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to respond to reports that certain health care plans are charging unnecessarily high copayments for prescription drugs. A recent report in the New York Times indicated that many health care plan participants, including federal government employees, are facing copayments as high as 20-33 percent of the cost of drugs. Such high copayments can translate int
Young & Adults - live chat support services
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:15:12 PDT
This group has a wide age range, i.e. from 15 to 9 years, and is therefore representing a bigger chunk of the population, i.e. 19 %, with bigger slice of studying age group. There has been an increase in the trend of young people staying with their parents, for a longer period, as compared to the trend in the 90sto move out as soon as one could....
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 18 April 2008
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:26:45 PDT
FINTAG COMMENT I am obviously psychic. FiNTAG has correctly predicted many things in the last 2 years. The crash for starters. Some were inspired from email tip off's but mostly long lunch gossip and bloody good guesses. On 17th January 2008 we predicted RBS would need to raise GBP12bn through a rights issue. And yesterday they have said they will need to raise GBP12bn. Hat tip to the man in France and a couple of pints of guinness. Editor: Hold your horses: I just checked and you said USD no
5+ / 0-
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:32:45 PDT
5+ / 0-) Recommended by: tikkun, maynard, theran, AaronBa, eru is shifting to professional-style research versus undergraduate research. Undergraduates need to read books. There is no way around the fact that they do not have the field background that professionals take for granted. If I want to write a paper on late 19th century trends leading to Russian Symbolism, I can jump straight to the articles because I already have the background. My students do not. And undergraduates in gene
Macrohistory - A World Report
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:33:47 PDT
Historians begin with inquiry, and inquiry requires doubt. And like a good scientist a good historian maintains a degree of doubt and modesty, leaving himself open to discoveries and newly presented facts. This is what I try to do with my history narratives. I describe humanity from its beginning to the 21st century - a gigantic subject that requires help from people who have done good works. I've drawn from those who have devoted their professional lives to a deeper and more narrow focus of
Latest Nokia Phones: Making quite an uproar in the market
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:39:04 PDT
The Nokia Phones have led to a great uproar in the market since their launch. I personally noticed that the recent trend of many people is to buy one of the latest Nokia phones. The N-series, the W-series and E-series are favourite among people of UK, as well as in other countries. The Nokia handsets are GSM enabled & feature-rich mobile phones tha
Microsoft Acquires Travel Search Service FareCast for $115m
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:42:14 PDT
Ed. Note: In addition to the regular startup/product reviews, I’ll be covering more news/acquisitions/trends stories for the next couple of weeks. Depending on how that works out, I’ll either stick or go back to writing single-handedly about products and services. If you have an opinion or a suggestion on what you’d like to see, I’d love to hear it. In a brief blog post, CEO Hugh Crean confirmed today in a brief blog post that FareCast, a travel airfare search/prediction service we covered bri
Cheap and Chic Spring Home Makeovers
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:57:14 PDT
Fashion trends often transfer into interior décor ideas, but have you ever considered creating your own haute couture for the home? Style-savvy ladies know that just like your clothes, your home is an extension of your personal style
A Round Up of Climate Studies from This Week's Science Magazine
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:08:42 PDT
There are several interesting climate related studies in this week's Science magazine. Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly Almost 6 years ago, a paper in Science warned of an unheralded environmental peril. Melted snow and ice seemed to be reaching the base of the great Greenland ice sheet, lubricating it and accelerating the sheet’s slide toward oblivion in the sea, where it was raising sea level worldwide (12 July 2002, p. 218). A new study has confirmed that meltwater rea
CONSUMER TRENDS: Weddings not hit by financial woes (Courier-Post)
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:11:07 PDT
Although American consumers are pinching their pockets, the $50 billion wedding industry continues to boom.
Evolving trends in Chandigarh Real Estate
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:11:08 PDT
The residential real estate projects that developers launched in Chandigarh outskirts, with a view to leverage the NRI base of the city, are undergoing difficult times.
Clickbank Merchandise
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Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:05:42 PDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday called on Linda Springer, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to respond to reports that certain health care plans are charging unnecessarily high copayments for prescription drugs. A recent report in the New York Times indicated that many health care plan participants, including federal government employees, are facing copayments as high as 20-33 percent of the cost of drugs. Such high copayments can translate int
Young & Adults - live chat support services
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:15:12 PDT
This group has a wide age range, i.e. from 15 to 9 years, and is therefore representing a bigger chunk of the population, i.e. 19 %, with bigger slice of studying age group. There has been an increase in the trend of young people staying with their parents, for a longer period, as compared to the trend in the 90sto move out as soon as one could....
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 18 April 2008
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:26:45 PDT
FINTAG COMMENT I am obviously psychic. FiNTAG has correctly predicted many things in the last 2 years. The crash for starters. Some were inspired from email tip off's but mostly long lunch gossip and bloody good guesses. On 17th January 2008 we predicted RBS would need to raise GBP12bn through a rights issue. And yesterday they have said they will need to raise GBP12bn. Hat tip to the man in France and a couple of pints of guinness. Editor: Hold your horses: I just checked and you said USD no
5+ / 0-
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:32:45 PDT
5+ / 0-) Recommended by: tikkun, maynard, theran, AaronBa, eru is shifting to professional-style research versus undergraduate research. Undergraduates need to read books. There is no way around the fact that they do not have the field background that professionals take for granted. If I want to write a paper on late 19th century trends leading to Russian Symbolism, I can jump straight to the articles because I already have the background. My students do not. And undergraduates in gene
Macrohistory - A World Report
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:33:47 PDT
Historians begin with inquiry, and inquiry requires doubt. And like a good scientist a good historian maintains a degree of doubt and modesty, leaving himself open to discoveries and newly presented facts. This is what I try to do with my history narratives. I describe humanity from its beginning to the 21st century - a gigantic subject that requires help from people who have done good works. I've drawn from those who have devoted their professional lives to a deeper and more narrow focus of
Latest Nokia Phones: Making quite an uproar in the market
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:39:04 PDT
The Nokia Phones have led to a great uproar in the market since their launch. I personally noticed that the recent trend of many people is to buy one of the latest Nokia phones. The N-series, the W-series and E-series are favourite among people of UK, as well as in other countries. The Nokia handsets are GSM enabled & feature-rich mobile phones tha
Microsoft Acquires Travel Search Service FareCast for $115m
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:42:14 PDT
Ed. Note: In addition to the regular startup/product reviews, I’ll be covering more news/acquisitions/trends stories for the next couple of weeks. Depending on how that works out, I’ll either stick or go back to writing single-handedly about products and services. If you have an opinion or a suggestion on what you’d like to see, I’d love to hear it. In a brief blog post, CEO Hugh Crean confirmed today in a brief blog post that FareCast, a travel airfare search/prediction service we covered bri
Cheap and Chic Spring Home Makeovers
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:57:14 PDT
Fashion trends often transfer into interior décor ideas, but have you ever considered creating your own haute couture for the home? Style-savvy ladies know that just like your clothes, your home is an extension of your personal style
A Round Up of Climate Studies from This Week's Science Magazine
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:08:42 PDT
There are several interesting climate related studies in this week's Science magazine. Greenland Ice Slipping Away but Not All That Quickly Almost 6 years ago, a paper in Science warned of an unheralded environmental peril. Melted snow and ice seemed to be reaching the base of the great Greenland ice sheet, lubricating it and accelerating the sheet’s slide toward oblivion in the sea, where it was raising sea level worldwide (12 July 2002, p. 218). A new study has confirmed that meltwater rea
CONSUMER TRENDS: Weddings not hit by financial woes (Courier-Post)
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:11:07 PDT
Although American consumers are pinching their pockets, the $50 billion wedding industry continues to boom.
Evolving trends in Chandigarh Real Estate
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:11:08 PDT
The residential real estate projects that developers launched in Chandigarh outskirts, with a view to leverage the NRI base of the city, are undergoing difficult times.
Clickbank Merchandise
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