There is no real treatment for the flu, it is a virus and antibiotics have absolutely NO affect on it.
We are adding a special page just for flu coverage.
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According to a consumer report heard on the December 03 NBC Today Show, gift debit cards, which are like gift certificates but actually contain ready-to-spend case in the form of a debit card, have a number of shortcomings.
First, never buy one online, there is often a big additional fee so only buy them in person at the store or mall.
Many cards have dormancy fees, that is, they reduce in value by several $$ each month until they completely expire. Use it fast or loose it!
There are expiration dates on some so the person you give them to looses all the money eventually anyway.
About 10 percent of cards are never redeemed, about $5 Billion each year, which is why the stores are pushing them so hard.
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Spirit Owner (former? Current? Future?) Under SEC Cloud
The Hollinger International Publishing Group, which recently purchased The Spirit, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly illegal payments to former executives including Conrad Black.
"Black is a Canadian-born British press baron who controls The Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times and Jerusalem Post, resigned his key executive posts in November. David Radler, the publisher of The Sun-Times and Hollinger's chief operating officer, was also ousted by the Hollinger board. Black and his lieutenants are said to have pocketed $32.1 million in payments that had not been approved by the board of the publicly owned company."
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a look at the scandal from GB's Guardian Business report:
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a chronic, degenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system of cattle. It is fatal in cattle or humans.
Risk Level incredibly low England had hundreds of thousands of dead cows from this and less than 200 human deaths. We have one reported case (probably a few hundred tops.) In perspective about 100,000 people will probably die of the flu this year in the U.S.
Absolute safety - Even if you are eating a dead mad cow simply eat only whole cuts of meat, roasts, steaks, no beef sausage, hmbg, etc. because Mad Cow can ONLY be transmitted by central nervous system material.
Near absolute safety - Eat hamburger too, but only from butchers who don't use expensive mechanical meat processing equipment.
The Mad Cow threat is far less than the danger of eating in the average restaurant or from eating rare hamburgers from anywhere.
The Consumer Federation of Am is currently providing the most honest and balanced coverage of this threat.
http://www.consumerfed.org/revisedctf.html
The beef industry has blocked all attempts to legislate the minor changes necessary to have prevented this threat. When you read my report bear in mind that I am an organic rancher who has raised beef cattle so I'm not picking on the beef industry, just on the stupidity of some of the biggest commercial operations which have caused this problem.
According to a consumer report heard on the December 03 NBC Today Show, gift debit cards, which are like gift certificates but actually contain ready-to-spend case in the form of a debit card, have a number of shortcomings.
