The problem around the globe is a "dearth" of fat and protein needed in our diets...D'oh!

"Venezuela's socialist government is sounding the alarm about growing waistlines in a country where record food shortages are making it harder to put healthy meals on the table, prompting many people to fill up on empty calories."

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"Those workers who acquire the latest skills earn good pay; those employers who hire the right workers and train them well can realize the competitive advantages that come with new technologies."

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"Twenty states have some kind of law in place that either prohibits or restricts public broadband utilities from operating or expanding."

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"So if your hiring process relies primarily on interviews, reference checks, and personality tests, you are choosing to use a process that is significantly less effective than it could be if more effective measures were incorporated."

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"Equifax attributed the credit card surge at least in part to increased lending to subprime borrowers."

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"More than a third of the country is in trouble when it comes to paying debts on time; 35% of Americans have debt in collections, according to a study out Tuesday from the Urban Institute, which analyzed the credit files of 7 million Americans."

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"Feds call it 'twelve triple three'; whistleblowers says it's the heart of the problem."

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How is this NOT a sign of this country's future economic doom?

"Burger King is in talks to buy Canadian donut giant Tim Hortons to pull off a 'tax inversion' that would see the home of the Whopper move to Canada to avoid corporate levies in the U.S."

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"The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a 'Google-like' search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats"

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It's really a sad state of affairs in this country when all critical infrastructure is either inadequate or failing and we can only borrow money we don't have to fix it...This is what DOOM looks like!

"The Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress (CSPC) launched a project to bring together representatives from the Executive Branch, Congress, and the private sector to discuss how to better secure the U.S. electric grid from the threats of cyberattack, physical attack, electromagnetic pulse, and inclement weather."

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"Law requires security software to come enabled by default, but other than that, not much will change for most smartphone users."

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"Scientists have discovered methane gas bubbling from the seafloor in an unexpected place: off the East Coast of the United States where the continental shelf meets the deeper Atlantic Ocean."

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"Early battery death affects phones sold between September 2012 and January 2013."

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"More than 1,000 American businesses have been affected by the cyberattack that hit the in-store cash register systems at Target, Supervalu and most recently UPS Stores, the Department of Homeland Security said in an advisory released on Friday."

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"But the IoT relies on networks, using secure underlying networking technologies deployed and managed by network managers and administrators."

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