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Consumer News - Salt Lake Tribune


Consumer News
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - 18 minutes ago
After a decade of declining prices, makers of footwear at all levels are raising prices. Mass-market Payless recently increased prices, though it won't say ...


World's News Headlines Still Reeling with Doom and Gloom, but Economic and Business News Strongly Upbeat, New Metric Finds

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:01 PST
Although news organizations around the world worked to bring their audiences a good mix of stories and feature articles, on balance, the news for the first day of 2008 featured more negative stories...

What Is Really Driving Up the Price of Oil?

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:37:14 PDT
Crude oil prices have increased 25% in the last three months. According to most news sources, this is a result of surging demand from China and India, and a curtailment of oil supply from Nigeria and Iraq. Although these trends are accurate,the price of oil is being affected by more than supply and demand.

DESIblitz | Fashion for Asian Weddings

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:06:58 PDT
Great article on the fashion trend for South Asian weddings in the UK. Include videos and photos of British Asian fashion catwalk shows.

Legal News Watch Launches Asbestos Today

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:00:01 PST
SAN DIEGO, CA (PRWEB) November 3, 2003– Legal News Watch today announced the debut of Asbestos Today (http://www.asbestostoday.com), a single, central location where consumers can easily find...

Climate Scientists Agree on Warming, Disagree on Dangers, and Don’t Trust the Media’s Coverage of Climate Change

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:39 PDT
A slight majority (54%) believe the warming measured over the last 100 years is not “within the range of natural temperature fluctuation.” A slight majority (56%) see at least a 50-50 chance that global temperatures will rise two degrees Celsius or more during the next 50 to 100 years. (The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites this increase as the point beyond which additional warming would produce major environmental disruptions.) Based on current trends, 41% of sc

Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:14:25 PDT
As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are made. The trend concerns civil liberties groups as well as some lawmakers and legal experts.

The economic implications of power

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:27 PDT
I was in a meeting with Cisco yesterday where they talked of the work they are doing with respect to greening the network in the data centre. Basically, they said, you can increase the efficiency of a data centre by decreasing the number of ports that each server uses. With virtualisation on the rise, that is apparently a big concern. The newest switches apparently take 10 watts of power on each side of the cable to run. Add that up over thousands of ports and you can see the point. Actually,

PartyGaming shows growing trends

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:50:23 PDT
PartyGaming PLC, the company behind Party Poker, recently advertised huge numbers of new players.

Identifying Outsourcing Trends in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Contract Research (Centre Daily Times)

Wed, 14 May 2008 06:02:30 PDT
Frost & Sullivan launches new Voice of the Customer studies on outsourcing trends, perceptions, selection criteria and other important dynamics to contract research organizations (CROs). These studies include detailed interviews with more than 150 executives within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry who are involved in outsourcing to CROs. Additionally, Frost & Sullivan seeks to gauge ...

Two maverick winemakers buck the Napa Valley trend

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:24:55 PDT
NAPA VALLEY, Calif. - Fans of the 2004 sleeper hit "Sideways" thirsty for more wine on film can look forward to the August release of "Bottle Shock," a movie based on the landmark 1976 Paris blind tasting in which experts couldn't distinguish elite French chardonnay and cabernet from their upstart California cousins.

Cops with rifles to hit streets this summer

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:12:54 PDT
Metropolitan PD officials said yesterday patrol officers will be issued assault rifles by the summer, after policies on their use are released this month. The Wash Times reported Wednesday that the department is arming the officers with the rifles as part of a national trend to protect them from criminals with increasingly powerful weapons.

PBMI Surveys Industry Stakeholders on Emerging Drug Benefit Trends (Centre Daily Times)

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:57:36 PDT
The Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute (PBMI) has released 2008 stakeholder research on three emerging drug benefit trends: value-based benefit design, new models of community pharmacy, and Medicare Part D challenges. Key findings on the adoption, opportunity and challenges of these market trends are discussed in three new white papers available at www.pbmi.com/research.asp.


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