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Which makes the backdrop to the pound's latest dip - the massive public debt and deficit, and the potential threat to Britain's triple A investment rating - a far greater problem for the currency than anything else. The rest is small change...
...overall cost of illness, factoring in every expense, from onetime costs for prescription medication to losses in "quality of life" - a dollars-and-cents picture of exactly how miserable that bout with a bad falafel made you. "The study really illustrates just how serious foodborne illness is as a problem in society," says Scharff, who also ranked all 50 states by total costs of illness and costs per case...
...turned into a racetrack. Florida motorcycle crashes have been up in recent years - from 8,990 in 2006 to 9,618 in 2008, when state legislators responded with a tough new anti-speeding law - and law-enforcement officials say crotch rockets are a prime contributor. They worry the problem will get worse in the bad economy, since motorcycles (which most riders buy new but end up tinkering with to generate more power) are a lot cheaper than cars. (See pictures of the evolution of Harley-Davidson...
...Patrol spokesman Lieutenant Tim Frith of Palm Beach County. He says the common speed of racing bikes there is 120 to 130 m.p.h. Lieutenant Alex Annunziato of the highway patrol in Miami says they have busted repeat violators by flying helicopters and tracking the bikes until they stop. "The problem is that takes a lot of resources," he says...
Lopez-Cantera believes the problem will continue until the racing-bike industry takes steps to limit who can buy the bikes. A recent effort to force buyers to have a license expressly for motorcycles before purchasing a racing bike, for example, was successfully stifled in large part by industry lobbyists. "I don't see where the industry can control the consumer," says Carrington Lloyd III, who owns Greater Yamaha in West Palm Beach and says he supports the law. "You can feed anybody as much knowledge as you want, but they're going to do what they want...