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...Duffy has written poetry and picture books for children as well as a number of well-received plays and has edited anthologies...
...What marketers still don't talk about is that old people with money are the largest consumers of a number of things besides multivitamins and sweaters. According to Forbes, the average age of the people who buy the extremely expensive and fast Porsche 911 is 51 years old. Their median annual income is $390,000. That means that a great many of the people driving dangerously fast cars are in their late fifties and their sixties. Trying to sell Porsches to people under 40 is probably a waste of money, especially now that almost all of the hedge fund managers...
...people are on board. You can catch the flu if you're within about six feet of a sick person - otherwise known as the "breathing space" - who coughs or sneezes on you, and a small amount of the virus can survive on inanimate surfaces. But with just a tiny number of cases in the U.S. right now, there's little risk that you'll encounter a sick person - certainly not enough to make it worth becoming a shut-in. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...Meanwhile, the number of victims is also growing. In the past three months, 15 cases of suspicious deaths in China's jails have been reported. An official with the with Supreme People's Procuratorate told the state-run Xinhua news service that seven detainees had been beaten to death, three committed suicide, two died in accidents and three cases were under investigation. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...When the number of reported deaths rose to 15 by late April, authorities declared the new campaign to crack down on "improper management" and "slack supervision" by police and prosecutors would be extended to five months. Some critics argue that the system needs more fundamental reforms before it can begin to reduce prison deaths, and that the ultimate blame lies with police, not rogue inmates. Because many of the victims have been suspects, not convicts, legal experts suspect the abuses are connected with the Chinese legal system's long-standing reliance on confessions to secure criminal convictions...