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Europe’s highest court recently decided that Google, Bing and others must allow people in Europe to ask that links to information about themselves be removed from search results.  The idea was a good one — to enable individuals to protect … Continue reading →

Salon.com reports that nine U.S. states have “ag-gag” laws on the books — laws that make it illegal for anyone to record what occurs on farms without the owner’s permission.  The purpose is to make sure that practices that would … Continue reading →

Irish authorities are under pressure to open up a septic tank at a former Catholic Church-run home in the town of Tuam for unwed mothers.  There are allegations that it contains the remains of the 796 infants and toddlers who … Continue reading →

FiveThirtyEight.com reports that the decision by congressional Republicans to cut off  unemployment insurance to 1.3 million Americans hasn’t led to a surge in their finding jobs.  An analysis of data shows that only about 25 percent of those cut off … Continue reading →

Publishers Weekly, reporting research by someone called the Codex Group, says that Amazon commands 41 percent of all new books sold.  The company sells 65 percent of all books sold online, whether print or digital. Amazon war with publishers today … Continue reading →

The Associated Press says that CEOs now earn about 257 times his or her average employee’s salary.  Median compensation for CEOs crossed $10 million for the first time last year, due to a surging stock market that drove the stock … Continue reading →

The AP has reported from Montevideo that a prisoner in a Uruguyan prison has tapped into the U.S. ambassador’s cellphone and sent messages to some of her contacts.  Officials said yesterday that the inmate also had access to Ambassador Julissa … Continue reading →

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences says that “childhood bullying involvement predicts low-grade systemic inflammation into adulthood.”  A study of 1,420 boys and girls revealed that being bullied raised the level of “C-reactive protein” (CRP) in their blood — which … Continue reading →

Inversion (n):  The process by which U.S. companies acquire foreign competitors and reincorporate abroad in low-tax countries. Example of inversion:  Pfizer is trying to buy British rival AstraZeneca for about $106 billion.  Pfizer plans to move its holding company to … Continue reading →

Careless doctors writing prescriptions and careless patients using antibiotics have created a massive new vulnerability in our health care.  In a report entitled “Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014,” the World Health Organization issues a warning that’s about as … Continue reading →