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How many cookies? Your holiday diet slipups

Holidays derailing your diet? You're not alone. We asked our readers to tell us about the temptations they've given into — and those they've managed to resist — and got some confessions.

Startup Aims to Broker Customer Feedback

One of the great things about the Internet is the way people post reviews on just about anything you're considering trying, whether it's a movie, a new restaurant or the local florist.

Castro Retirement Managed From Start

For a moment, the 25-year-old baker panicked when he heard that Fidel Castro was stepping down as Cuba's president. He flicked a switch to see if power had been cut, and turned a tap to check for water. He wondered whether the distribution center would come through with milk rations for his two kids.

Taxpayers Prep for Capital Gains Changes

Now here's something with a nice ring to it: Zero percent tax on capital gains. Folks are already planning how to profit when the tax is eliminated for some taxpayers next year, and wealthy people with kids are in the vanguard.

Medical-Bill Errors Increasingly Common

Don't assume that your complicated medical bill is correct. Errors on bills for doctors, medical tests or hospitals can result in overcharges that run from a few dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.

Medco to Have Prescription Review System

When a patient gets a new prescription filled, there's a fair chance a pharmacist will be looking over the doctor's shoulder, more or less. Increasingly, pharmacists are aggressively reviewing prescriptions — mainly those for expensive, chronic conditions — and counseling patients and intervening with their doctors to head off costly, potentially deadly problems.

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10 reasons why Satyam fiasco will not effect Indian IT Corp!
Source: counterreport.com

Though it went much deeper than the usual window dressing, essentially this doesn't speak anything negative about the Indian software industry's delivery model or capabilities..

Workplace depression: Back from the brink
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Mark Meier, a onetime manager for a Minneapolis medical clinic, has the tickets to talk to business people about depression.

Managing Stress: 3 Life Lessons
Source: managingstresstoday.blogspot.com

3 amazing life lessons for dealing with stress.

More women in top jobs in the Americas than in the EU
Source: euobserver.com

There are more women in top jobs in North America and in Latin America than in the European Union, a major new study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) shows.

Five ways to clean up your snail mail
Source: Lifehacker

These days we spend a lot of time managing our email inboxes, but what about the snail mailbox? You can de-cluttering your mailbox with some easy techniques that reduce unwanted paper and streamline what you get delivered to you.

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