Business
 | Los Angeles Times - AP Stocks closed sharply lower Monday after two big rating agencies criticized a fiscal pact between European leaders last week that is aimed at easing the region's debt crisis. |
 | Inquirer.net - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecasts for the Philippines for this year and the next due to the adverse impact of the global economic climate and lower-than-expected public spending in the first three quarters. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - A POSITIVE REVIEW of this year's good governance and transparency efforts will be submitted by the National Competitiveness Council (NCC), an official yesterday said. |
 | Inquirer.net - Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the country's biggest power distributor, plans to divest itself of its entire stake in Rockwell Land Corp. |
 | Business Mirror - THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Monday said it had intercepted and seized eight container vans laden with undocumented lumber from Davao but were misdeclared by its consignees as “various goods and assorted materials. |
 | BusinessWorld Online Edition - INDOPHIL Resources NL, one of the foreign backers of the Tampakan copper-gold project in Mindanao, is looking to list at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) next year. |
 | CanadianBusiness.com - An oil pump works during sunset Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in the Persian Gulf desert oil field of Sakhir, Bahrain. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Hasan Jamali NEW YORK, NY - Oil prices slid alongside global stock indexes ... |
 | NPR (blog) - Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 pm ET For decades, as young people have been leaving farms behind, the average age of the American farmer keeps rising. |
Health
 | Canadian National Newspaper - (TheBestHealthMag.ca) -- A new Danish study may have you adding an extra serving of fish or two—maybe even a Fish Friday—to your week. |
 | Victoria Times Colonist - Earvin (Magic) Johnson believed life's toughest challenges were behind him. He had earned good grades in high school and overcome financial barriers to become the first in his working-class ... |
 | DigitalJournal.com (press release) - It's the season to be jolly and stressed! It's autopilot time as we get ready for the holidays. There's gift shopping, parties, holiday feasts and family visits, all triggers for feeling overwhelmed and stressed out. |
 | BBC News - A traveller has made a record purchase at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport when he spent nearly 50000 euros (£42000; $66000) on six bottles of exclusive wine, the airport says. |
 | AFP - STOCKHOLM - The disco beat of 'Stayin' Alive' pulses through the room as Lennart Zetterqvist heaves dumbbells out to his side, zipping through the paces of a workout class with a twist: it's for seniors aged 90 and up. |
 | Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Radiation and chemotherapy given to young cancer patients don't seem to increase the risk that their own children will have birth defects years later, according to a new study. |
 | AFP - WASHINGTON - The Iraq war ushered in dramatic advances in battlefield medicine, with the effects of homemade bombs leading the US military to radically change how it treats wounded soldiers. |
 | Globe and Mail - Hippocrates gave cancer its name. He used the words “carcinos” and “carcinoma” to describe tumours - Greek words for crab. |
 | Discover Magazine (blog) - Hemophilia, a disease whose victims can suffer serious internal bleeding and may bleed to death from injuries, has a long and eventful history. |
 | Medical Daily - Alcohol consumption can directly influence a person's intention to have unsafe sex, according to a new study. Researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada say that this finding could provide valuable insight in ... |
 | MedIndia - A new hangover pill called 'Blowfish' that claims to cure hangover within 15 minutes has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). |
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