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• What’s Antimony? Zhu Zhu Toy Hamster Concerns.

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 422
  You may remember antimony from chemistry class. It’s the ole “Sb” on the periodic table of elements. Yes, it’s toxic with known ill health effects, especially to the lungs and heart. Yet, antimony is allowed to a degree in toys as a flame retardant. GoodGuide.com has really stirred the shopping pot by ...
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• Flash flood: the (very short) story of YouTube

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 159
  You might feel like access to online video clips is one of those “inalienable rights” you hear so much about. The Internet of 2009 is awash in video content, from your favorite Seinfeld episodes to homemade videos of cats playing the piano—and everything in between. And you can get the material you’re looking ...
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• Baby goods shop shut down by bully boy brands

  
  TameBay — Authority: 432
  eBay are featured in the Sunday Times today highlighting restrictive trade practices by manufacturers who restrict how retailers can sell and price their products. Highlighted is online retailer “ Baby Zoop ” who have been forced to close their business “due to the illegal price fixing by the major pushchair ...
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• GoodSearch or GoodShop Your Picks

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 422
  Go to Goodsearch.com and raise money for your favorite charity just by searching the Internet! The list of participating nonprofits is seemingly endless, but you can just type in the name and click “verify” to see if your favorite charity participates. The environment category includes nonprofits like your ...
  4 days ago

• Achieving universal healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 119
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianAnyone who has read my posts knows I believe there is a great deal this country can learn from the experience of other countries and our own states when it comes to  confronting the conundrum of expanding health insurance coverage. We may not agree with ...
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• Fun BPA-free Storage Container for Food

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 422
  I’ve been using glass Pyrex BPA-free storage containers for my leftovers. (Yes, the lid is BPA-free as well.) I don’t have any real complaints with them other than the fact that replacement lids can be difficult to find. But, you know, the Pyrex containers just aren’t as beautiful as the chipper green ...
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• The hospital that could cure healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 119
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianIf you want a better understanding of the business practices going on at the Cleveland Clinic, you should take a look at a recent Newsweek article. It is titled “The hospital that could cure healthcare.” The article discusses many strategies the ...
  6 days ago

• eBay fined a further €1.7m by French in LVMH case

  
  TameBay — Authority: 432
  The French Commercial Courts have fined eBay €1.7 million Euros (about $2.55 million) for failing to comply with a 2008 injunction to block French eBay users from buying or selling LVMH Group perfumes and cosmetics on any eBay website. eBay say that they have done their utmost to respect the injunction and block ...
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• Mammogram recommendation makes sense

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 119
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthI know that there are varying opinions on the latest mammogram screening guidelines released last week and I appreciate the sensitivity surrounding the issue.I realize there is concern from some, especially from women who may be worried about their health or who have a ...
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• Buy Nothing Day 2009

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 422
  Here’s your chance to participate by not participating. Buy Nothing Day is a 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending. It’s a way of speaking out against the toxic culture that constantly says we need more stuff. It’s revolting against excessive commercialism. It’s staying home on Black Friday. November 27 ...
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• Another Phthalate Study Linking ADHD

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 422
  Phthalates may be included in perfume, vinyl floors, furniture, nail polish, personal care items, medical equipment, car interiors, adhesives, paint and many things made of PVC . They’ve been in use around 50 years to make plastics softer and more flexible. Until recently, the chemical group was also used in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clinic with two doors – one for patients paying cash, the other for those with insurance

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 119
  On Manhattan’s Upper East Side an imaging center exists and patients may not know it, but there are two doors. One door is for patients who are paying cash - a concierge type set-up. The other door is for patients covered by insurance.The investigative report can be read on MSNBC’s Web site. Just click here.The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kerry, Grassley Voice Concerns Over Multiple Station Ownership t...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Senators cite Raycom shared services agreement in Honolulu, say consumer choice...
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• HR 778 IH…The fresh milk bill no one talks about

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  By: Marti Oakley  All rights reserved  It would appear earlier this year Rep. Ron Paul (R) Texas, introduced this simple bill into the record of the House.  Here we are in Mid-November, eleven months later……and not one co-sponsor or any action has been taken on this bill.  It is sitting idle in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Voters will no longer be told what to do

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Politicians have made the startling discovery that there is a new generation of adults for whom choice is a birthright and a way of life says Janet Daley
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• The Campaign for Consumer Choice

  
  TameBay — Authority: 432
  Earlier this year a petition signed by over three quarters of a million Europeans was presentated to the EU Parliament. The petition called for amendments to EU competition law to stop brands from restricting the sale of their products on the internet. A new Campaign for Consumer Choice website has been launched ...
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• Government should not act like a private insurance company

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 119
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian  True cost savings from healthcare reform legislation will be highly unlikely if the government behaves like a private health insurance company. As announced late last week, the so-called public option will not impose what the plan will pay hospitals, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Consumer Choice Poll: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, Motorola DROID or HTC HD2?

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 454
  We would love to know what handset you would choose out of the three we have named here, what smartphone would you choose out of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, Motorola DROID or HTC HD2?Now looking at the quick specs surely it will sway you towards one of these phones, for example the Sony Ericsson [...]Related posts: ...
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• BPA in Those Canned Green Beans?

  
  Tree Hugging Family — Authority: 422
  There’s even more reason to eat fresh vegetables whenever possible. Consumer Reports just released the results of their Bisphenol A (BPA) tests of canned foods. Items tested include: soups, juice, tuna and green beans. Sadly for consumers, almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain measurable levels ...
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• A Winning Compromise? (Joe Conason)

  
  Ink and Virtue — Authority: 154
  
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