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...will ever know what the governments in large countries like the U.S. and China spent preparing for a pandemic, but it was considerable, like preparing for a natural disaster or an economic event that might damage a country's financial system. (See pictures of soccer in the time of swine...
...Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...spin-off service called Google Flu Trends, which aims to identify outbreaks by tracking searches for flu-related terms and provide health officials with early warnings of potential epidemics. The reasoning is that if people are searching for information on the flu, they're probably sick themselves or know someone who is - and a geographic cluster of like-minded Googlers could represent a burgeoning outbreak or, worse, the roots of a new pandemic. (In the case of H1N1, however, the distant and initially small number of cases in the U.S. meant the search service wasn't very helpful in predicting...
...globe and examine how government policy affects people's daily lives, its authors are quick to caution against jumping to conclusions, especially for large countries "with a significant degree of federalism" (think U.S., Canada and Australia). Still, the report does offer some tidbits that tickle the brain: did you know that despite having one of the longest life expectancy rates in the world, most Japanese people think their health is poor? Well...
...Nano is the first car in India to log more than 200,000 orders at launch. In comparison, the tiny Suzuki Alto, one of the Japanese carmaker's best-selling Indian offerings, has sold 913,000 units in the domestic market since 2000. (See the 10 things you should know about the Nano...