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Location: Mailing Lists / Archive General Hot Articles / 2006-02-22

In this issue:  Demographics' impact on the future, fish for
health, and lessons from Katrina.

---Business---
CFO says employers are giving workers a new reason to get in
shape: cash.  Does this trend create a legal slippery slope
of employers targeting anyone who might develop health
problems?
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239002
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239002
TIME Europe tells how the iconic British company EMI and the
music industry learned to stop worrying and love the digital
download.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239613
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239613

---Computers---
Global identity thieves may know their way around your
computer better than you do.  Popular Mechanics tells you
how to protect yourself in the scary new world of zombies,
RATs, Trojan horses and evil twins.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239473
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239473
PC Magazine says that the flow of subcutaneous deoxidized
hemoglobin in the veins of your hands can be used to
identify you.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239562
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239562
Search Engine Watch questions the privacy concerns raised
over Google's new Desktop Search program.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=238952
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=238952

---Future---
Fast Company says the United States of 2016 will find itself
in the throes of demographic shifts that will upend our
political, economic, and technological priorities and
redefine our markets.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239437
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239437

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---Health---
The benefits of a diet rich in fish outweigh risks of
mercury poisoning, say researchers who studied the children
of mothers exposed to methyl mercury during pregnancy,
according to Chemistry World.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239634
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239634
Among elderly people, a spouse's hospitalization for certain
ailments substantially raises his or her partner's
likelihood of dying, according to a study reviewed by
Science News.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239428
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239428
Doctors may decide that weight loss is best accomplished
with the new drug Acomplia, according to BusinessWeek.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239744
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239744
Science News says that hospitals are struggling with a
serious new gut microbe.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239303
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239303

---Movies---
Freedomland wants to be a suspense thriller and a commentary
on race relations.  Culture Vulture says it fails in the
first and is only only tangentially successful in the
second.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239345
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239345
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America is a satirical
'mockumentary' film that looks at the history of an America
where the South won the Civil War.  Culture Vulture says
it's an exquisitely terrifying film in a funny, deadpan way.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239604
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239604

---Science---
A handful of genes that control the body's defenses during
hard times can also dramatically improve health and prolong
life in diverse organisms.  Scientific American says that
understanding how they work may reveal the keys to extending
human life span while banishing diseases of old age
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239687
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239687

---U.S.---
Popular Mechanics reviews some lessons from Katrina.
  http://MagPortal.com/nr/rdir.php?w=239090
  similar: http://MagPortal.com/cgi/sim.cgi?w=239090