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...flicker of hope about it, since poison-control centers around the world field millions of calls per day and resolve most poisonings over the phone. Still, a lot of lives are lost - 45,000 per year, or 123 per day. Medicines both prescription and over-the-counter, household products, pesticides and the paraffin burned in some stoves and lamps are the biggest killers. Not surprisingly, kids under 1 year old - particularly those in low- and middle-income countries - are at the greatest risk. It's no surprise either that the most effective fixes include simply getting the poisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save 829,000 Kids a Year | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...November alone, pension plans lost about $130 billion, marking the second consecutive month of record declines, according to a new report from Mercer, the financial consulting firm. The companies Mercer studied - those in the Standard & Poor's 1,500 index, which includes household names like 3M and Coca Cola - reported their pension plans ended 2007 with a $60 billion surplus. So the swiftness of this year's decline is astonishing. (Read "Is It OK to Pray for Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Funds Take Another Pounding | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...about 40%.) This latest episode, sparked by protests over local election results, only makes it seem less so. A curfew remained still in place as businesses were trying to recover. Soldiers and police kept vigilant watch on vehicles entering town, hoping to curb any potential reprisals. In every household, church and mosque, people blamed followers of the other religion with planning and executing the attacks with a vitriol that does not bode well for the future of the city or the region. (See here for pictures of the two sides of Nigeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religious Violence Rages in Nigeria | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...ever have to review two very similar tech products--any kind of gadgets, even supercomputers--I highly recommend dragooning a pair of 11-year-olds. That's what I did on a recent Saturday when a couple of inexpensive, pocket-size HD camcorders arrived at the Quittner household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Bitty Viddies | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...year of Barack Obama, who is the indisputable Person of the Year, this is one competition where Michael Phelps can do no better than silver. But if the question were confined to sports, it would be Phelps by acclamation. His eight-for-eight performance in Beijing made him a household name, even as it placed him in the top tier of all-time Olympians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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