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Strains for Hispanic Caregivers - NYTimes.com
Fabiola Santiago lives in the Miami suburbs, two miles from her 81-year-old mother and 87-year-old father, whom she looks after. As the single mother of three grown daughters, she might live in the city or in Miami Beach if she had no family responsibilities — but to her, that’s like saying she’d fly if she woke up tomorrow with wings. It’s a fantasy. For Ms.
Facebook rolls out new 'Sponsored Stories' ads - USATODAY.com
Sponsored Stories is "a way for marketers to sponsor activities that happen throughout the News Feed," Facebook Product Marketing Lead Jim Squires told Mashable . Companies can choose to take certain user actions — such as check-ins or actions within Facebook apps — and feature them in the column on the right side of the News Feed. For example, if you're Whole Foods and you're looking to increase your exposure on Facebook, you can pay to have a percentage of all check-ins to Whole Foods featured in a Sponsored Stories slot in the right-side column. Your content wouldn't be shown directly, but the actions of a user's friends would appear. Users seeing their friends "liking" or checking in to Whole Foods will drive increased trust and increased traffic.Smoking, obesity trim life expectancy - USATODAY.com
Smoking, a declining habit, and obesity, a burgeoning problem, have cut three to four years off the increasing life expectancy of Americans , an international longevity comparison concludes. Nationwide, men's life expectancy at birth jumped about five years and women's increased about three years from 1980 to 2007. But the National Research Council report, which came out Tuesday, finds that lung cancer, respiratory illness and heart disease have led to those increases lagging the average increase in 21 other high-income nations. "That is a lot of people dying needlessly in their 50s," says report panel co-chairman Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania . High costs aside, U.S. screening and treatment of cancer and heart attacks after age 50 match the best medical results elsewhere, Preston says.
Your Stomach Really Does Have a Mind of Its Own - WSJ.com
Not the type of instinct one normally equates with intuitive decision-making, but the sophisticated processes that take place in our digestive tracts to let us know when we're hungry. There, a collection of nerve cells work together and communicate much as the neurons in our brain do. It's essentially an autonomous and self-governing second brain that we all carry in our belly.Dale Kruzic OUTREACH Gina Nez, right, and Mitzie Begay visited Jimmy Begay (no relation), 87, a “code talker” in World War II, who signed an advance directive on end-of-life care. Ms. Begay, whose title is cross-cultural coordinator for the home-based care program at the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital here in northeastern Arizona, helps Navajos deal with the complex and confusing process of decision-making at the end of life. In Navajo culture, talking about death is thought to bring it about, so it is not discussed. A dead person’s name is never spoken.
On Navajo Reservation, Poem Helps Broach Topic of End-of-Life Care - NYTimes.com
Insurance fraud and social media: Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud - Courant.com
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Q&A websites like Quora and Stack Exchange take off - USATODAY.com
Today, Stack publicly launches Stack Exchange, a network of 33 Q&A sites on topics ranging from computer science to cooking. The service, in beta testing for seven months, has more than 1.5 million users, up 50% from November. It is looking to add one topic site a week. "This is a specialist's site," says Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky.