Health Nuts and Bolts

Source:  Associated Press
The North American population of Amish is searching for more fertile farmland and this push has resulted in the establishment of new settlements in 28 states and Ontario, and even explorations in Alaska and Mexico.
A new study estimates the number of Amish has increased nearly 10 percent in the past two years alone, [...]

Source: Associated Press
Travel + Leisure magazine’s “Top City” award goes to Bangkok, despite recent street riots that sent tourists packing.
Bangkok Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra told a news conference that the award offers a morale boost to the battered capital and called on political protesters to behave themselves. The recent political upheaval prompted dozens of international travel [...]

Source: CNN
A homeless man has been accused of breaking into a closed down California bar and selling alcohol to unsuspecting patrons, even prompting news coverage, before being recognized as a local transient.
The bar, called the Valencia Club, had gone out of business for some time and its liquor license had expired, police said this week.
But [...]

Source: CNN Money
Consumer confidence in July was pushed further downward for a sescond straight month, indicating slower than expected economic growth ahead.
The Conference Board, a New York-based research group, said Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 50.4 in July from June’s upwardly revised level of 54.3.
The Small Biz Factor
Experts contend that while large [...]

Source:  Los Angeles Times
Officially, 19 people attending the hugely popular Love Parade this month were crushed to death as crowds panicked inside a tunnel and started a stampede.
Police said that more than 200 people were injured at the rave, which had attracted an astonishing 1.4 million people and is reputed to be the largest [...]

Source:  Associated Press
India techies have come out with what looks like an iPad, only it’s 1/14th the cost at $35 and the basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students is expected to be in production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a [...]

Source:  New York Times
When Felecia Mulkey was hired as the coach of the new competitive cheer team at the University of Oregon in 2008, one of the first things the university did was change the name.  Why?
The name conjured outdated images of pompoms and miniskirts. Calling it the team stunts and gymnastics program better described [...]

Source:  TIME
There are some very important things you can’t prepare for as you enter the job market.
Chief among them is that there is a good chance that at some point during your working adult life you will have an abusive boss – the kind who uses his or her authority to torment subordinates. Bullying bosses [...]

Source:  Live Science
A mental disorder linked to outbursts of anger and remorse has been found to be nearly twice as common as previously thought.
The research has sparked debate within the psychological community about the diagnosing of a mental illness whose symptoms overlap with normal, if undesirable, human behaviors, as well with as symptoms of other [...]

SOURCE: Associated Press
President Barack Obama finally signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression.
The law, pushed through mainly by Democrats in Washington’s deeply partisan environment, comes almost two years after the infamous near financial meltdown in 2008 in the United States that was felt around the globe. The legislation [...]