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...riskier than other common abdominal and GI procedures, with an overall mortality risk within 90 days of 0.112%. Complication rates from bariatric procedures also put them in line with other common surgeries, such as hip replacements and gall bladder operations. "The clear message is that the very low mortality signals a high degree of safety compared to conventional thinking, particularly among the public, about the risks of bariatric surgery," says Eric DeMaria, vice chair of the department of surgery at Duke University, who presented the data. (See how to prevent illness...
...named one of America's worst governors by TIME, which cited South Carolina's high unemployment rate and low bond rating...
...Copenhagen climate conference in December is one of the professed goals. It's really a hardheaded, shrewd initiative to marry Japanese and South Korean high technology with China's manufacturing prowess, massive domestic market and bulging foreign-currency reserves - thus creating a formidable player in a postcrisis, low-carbon world...
...What is becoming clear is that the fossil-fuel-fed industrial era is ending and that the leading power of that age, the U.S., might not be able to maintain its economic dominance. New Energy Finance, a provider of information and analysis on low-carbon technologies, estimates that investment in clean energy in Europe last year reached nearly $50 billion. The figure for North America is a much lower $30 billion. (Read more about the green-energy ideas out there...
...Above all, East Asians appear more committed to a green agenda than Americans. South Korea has adopted "low-carbon green growth" as its new national vision and will spend $40 billion over four years to transform its industrial policy into "a new paradigm of qualitative growth which uses less energy and is more compatible with environmental sustainability," in the words of Prime Minister Han Seung Soo, whose previous job was special envoy on climate change for the U.N. Secretary-General...