Archive for: March, 2011

Bed bugs infestation forces BA to ground plane

Bed Bugs

Bed bugs, not safety issues or  a terror scare, were the culprit this time. British Airways grounded one of its 747 jets after a female passenger was bitten repeatedly during her two flights in January and February this year. Zane Selkirk, 28, wrote in a web site that bed bugs were crawling from her inflight […]

Positive thinking can lessen the perception of pain, study reveals

Positive Thinking

Positive thinking can do wonders for your emotional well-being and it is likely to have a similar impact on how you perceive pain as well. A new study published February 16 in the medical journal Science Translational Medicine suggests that pain perception varies according to the belief of patients that they are receiving painkillers or […]

Tax cuts fail to spur U.S. consumer spending as expected

Tax Cuts

Tax cuts that were supposed to encourage consumer spending had a weak impact in January, as Americans preferred to keep the extra money for now. The growth in spending was the slowest since June last year, rising just 0.2 percent in January, according to a report from the Department of Commerce released on Monday. Analysts […]

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