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2/2/2012 America's Most Miserable Cities
1-10: Miami, Detroit, Flint, West Palm Beach, Sacramento, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Toledo, Rockford, Warren Miami is a playground for the rich and famous. Celebrities flock to parties at South Beach clubs and then return to their $10 million mansions in Miami Beach and Key Biscayne. It’s a leading city in culture, finance and international trade. But away from the glitz and glamor, many ordinary Miamians are struggling. A crippling housing crisis has cost multitudes of residents their homes and jobs. The metro area has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country and workers face lengthy daily commutes. Add it all up and Miami takes the top spot in our ranking of America’s Most Miserable Cities. The most famous way to gauge misery is the Misery Index developed by economist Arthur Okun in the 1960s, which combines unemployment and inflation. Our take on misery is based on the things that people complain about on a regular basis. We looked at 10 factors for the 200 largest metro areas and divisions in the U.S. Some are serious, like violent crime, unemployment rates, foreclosures, taxes (income and property), home prices and political corruption. Other factors we included are less weighty, like commute times, weather and how the area’s pro sports teams did. While sports, commuting and weather can be considered trivial by many, they can be the determining factor in the level of misery for a significant number of people. One tweak to this year’s list: we swapped out sales tax rates for property tax rates. Miami would have finished No. 1 under the old methodology as well (click here for more details about the criteria for the list). (Forbes)
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posted: 2/19/12                   0       6
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4/9/2011 Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk
• Unusual Reading At Chatanooga Nuclear Plant • Milk Contamination At EPA Maximum • Highest Levels Yet In Boise Rainwater Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday. Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9. The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat. The cesium-137 found in milk in Vermont is the first cesium detected in milk since the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident occurred last month. The sample contained 1.9 picoCuries per liter of cesium-137, which falls under the same 3.0 standard. Radioactive isotopes accumulate in milk after they spread through the atmosphere, fall to earth in rain or dust, and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle. Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body’s soft tissues, where it increases risk of cancer, according to EPA. (Forbes)
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posted: 4/11/11                   0       1
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3/2/2011 Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers
Updated with the TSA’s response below, which denies implementing airport-style scans in mass transit.

Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and in train stations, along with mobile x-ray vans capable of scanning pedestrians on city streets. The non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Wednesday published documents it obtained from the Department of Homeland Security showing that from 2006 to 2008 the agency planned a study of of new anti-terrorism technologies that EPIC believes raise serious privacy concerns. The projects range from what the DHS describes as “a walk through x-ray screening system that could be deployed at entrances to special events or other points of interest” to “covert inspection of moving subjects” employing the same backscatter imaging technology currently used in American airports. (Forbes)
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posted: 3/5/11                   0       10
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2/2/2011 All-Time Record: Wall Street Compensation Hits $135 Billion
Wall Street was on the ropes just 25 months ago. Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Bros., Bank of America, Wachovia, maybe Morgan Stanley; Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase were wounded. GE could not role over its commercial paper. European banks required cash infusions from our central bank. Just in the wake of a report highlighting Wall Street’s narrow, selfish imbecilities, we are treated to the stunning realization that the captains of the sinking liner are today enjoying the all-time record payoff for surviving with massive transfusions. The payout of $135 billion to employees of Wall Street firms in 2010 is equivalent to the total market value of both Bank of America and Citigroup. Imagine– in two years. (Forbes)
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posted: 8/1/11                   0       1
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8/24/2010 Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans
s the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets. American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S. “This product is now the largest selling cargo and vehicle inspection system ever,” says Reiss. (Forbes)
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posted: 10/4/10                   0       3
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7/21/2009 Bernanke Fights Audit Threat To The Fed
Central bank chief argues more review would compromise independence, seeking to deny legislative victory for one of Fed's biggest opponents (Forbes)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       11
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5/15/2009 Fed Up: Audit the Federal Reserve, by Ron Paul
A common misconception is that the Fed is completely independent of political pressures. While the Fed has far too much authority to make agreements with foreign governments and central banks, or create temporary liquidity facilities, the governors and--more important--the chairman, are appointed by the president. (Forbes)
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posted: 6/10/09                   3       23
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4/26/2009 Napolitano says US should prepare for new flu outbreak soon even if this one fizzles out (Forbes)
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posted: 4/27/09                   1       17
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2/3/2009 John Holdren, Ideological Environmentalist
A most dogmatic member of Obama's 'Green Dream Team.' (Forbes)
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posted: 7/20/09                   0       9
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11/13/2008 Endless Oil?
Radical Russian researchers say we are looking for oil in all the wrong places.

Kutcherov points to a handful of productive oil fields in Vietnam and elsewhere that lay in hard rock such as granite. Traditional theory says oil shouldn't be present there. Certain wells in the Gulf of Mexico have produced more oil than expected. The abiotic crowd says they are slowly being refilled from a deeper source.

To prove that abiotic oil is possible, in 2002 Kutcherov superheated calcium carbonate, water and iron in a pressure chamber and then cranked it up to produce 30,000 times atmospheric pressure, simulating the conditions present in the earth's mantle. Sure enough, about 1.5% of the material converted into hydrocarbons, according to results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most of it was methane and other gases, but about 10% was heavier oil components. (Forbes)
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posted: 6/22/10                   0       1
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9/23/2008 Bad News For The Bailout
A deal likely won't happen this week, and if Paulson wants one at all, he better improve his case to Congress.

In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy. "It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number." (Forbes)
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posted: 6/4/10                   0       4
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9/21/2006 The 400 Richest Americans #107 Henry R Kravis (Forbes)
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posted: 5/5/09                   1       12
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8/31/2006 100 Most Powerful Women #4 Indra Nooyi (Forbes)
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posted: 5/5/09                   0       13
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3/2/2006 GM sees mass-market hydrogen cars by 2010-2015
GM has partnered with Toyota Motor Corp for a number of years on developing the experimental fuel-cell technology (Forbes)
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posted: 7/28/09                   0       10
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10/24/2005 Winning--It's All About Information, Nathan Rothschild vs. Panicked London Sellers (Forbes)
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posted: 5/5/09                   0       12
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10/13/2005 Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth
According to the study in rats, a super-potent synthetic version of the cannabinoid compound found in marijuana can reduce depression and anxiety when taken over an extended period of time (Forbes)
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posted: 6/24/09                   3       13
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4/1/2005 Canada's International Policy Statement
Securing access to markets through trade agreements remains important, but there is increased recognition that investment is a much more significant driver of economic growth. The forthcoming International Policy Statement (IPS) is likely to highlight a broad set of measures that can make the country more competitive (for instance, in attracting and keeping human capital). Moreover, investment agreements, such as the one being negotiated with the EU, will probably be emphasised as models for engagement with new economic partners. (Forbes)
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posted: 11/8/10                   0       0
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9/11/2003 Trade Center Financing On Shaky Ground
Silverstein's insurance policy caps payment at $3.5 billion, yet Silverstein was propounding a theory that entitled him to $7 billion (Forbes)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       21
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7/23/2003 Larry Silverstein's $3.5B Definition
Larry Silverstein, who holds a 99-year lease for the buildings that were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, is claiming that he is entitled to recover $7.1 billion from the 22 insurers of the properties (Forbes)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       22
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6/26/2001 How Much Is Queen Elizabeth Worth? (Forbes)
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posted: 5/5/09                   0       12
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3/21/2001 World Trade Center Back On The Block
Now the negotiations have failed and the authority will try to strike a deal with the runner-up in the bidding, Silverstein Properties and Westfield America which bid jointly on the project (Forbes)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       21
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2/23/2001 Top Of The News: World Trade Center Traded
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a nontaxing public authority, sold it to Vornado Realty Trust for $3.25 billion, the largest real estate deal ever for a single property (Forbes)
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posted: 5/14/09                   2       20
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