From sciencedaily:

"Recent findings show that work-related burnout can lead to inflammatory processes, which plays a key role in the initiation and progression of cardiovascular disease and other inflammatory-linked illness. Now, researchers find evidence that men and women differ in their inflammatory reactions to work-related burnout and depression"

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Continuing the cheery progression of news that has become all too frequent:

"Extreme weather events -- including heat waves, floods and cold snaps -- are likely to become more common over the next century in the United States because of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by Purdue University researchers."

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As discussed at the Motley Fool:

"As of today, however, I'd better be careful, since the Orwellian-sounding "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005" is now law. Six months ago, the credit card lobby, consisting of MBNA (NYSE: KRB), Capital One (NYSE: COF), Citicorp (NYSE: C), Visa, and MasterCard, teamed up with august statesmen such as Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, to prevent the average American from abusing the generous privileges being offered by my friends at Bank of America and the other credit card companies. Fortunately for proponents of the law, the irony of the U.S. Congress lecturing anyone on the subject of indebtedness did not prevent its passage."

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Ummm, in the terrible news category:

"From the article: "Our determination is that there is currently no judicially recognized separate "technological arts" test to determine patent eligible subject matter under 101. We decline to create one. Therefore, it is apparent that the examiner's rejection can not be sustained.""

Namely, a business model can now be patented even if it does not involve a computer. How long before 7/11 and QuickMart duke it out over "method to accept cash payment from a customer using a cashier?".

Ridiculous.

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