Winnie Views: 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting Cancer

For the final day of September’s Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month and #GynCAN, I thought I’d share some of the most important things I’ve learned from my journey with endometrial (uterine) cancer this year.  Share this with the women you love—awareness and early detection are so critical to survivability!
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Toys ‘R’ Us Brings Temporary Foreign Workers to U.S. to Move Jobs Overseas

When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help American companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy. Now, though, some companies are bringing in workers on those visas to help move jobs out of the country.
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There Are Now Officially 70,000 Ways to Get Sick or Die

There are 70,000 ways to get sick, hurt or mortally injured, and the U.S. is making them official.
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Whole Foods to stop selling products made by inmates

Whole Foods will stop selling products made using a prison labor program after a protest at one of its stores in Texas. The company said the products should be out of its stores by April 2016, if not sooner. Whole Foods said it has sold tilapia, trout and goat cheese produced through a Colorado inmate program at some stores since at least 2011. Michael Silverman, a Whole Foods spokesman, said the company had sourced the...
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These charts show how $50 crude cripples oil-addicted Norway

A 60 percent drop in oil prices has hit Norway right in the jugular. Growth has come to a virtual halt in a nation that has counted on petroleum for almost a quarter of its output. Its reliance on crude has increased since 2000, with the number of oil-related jobs doubling and now accounting for one in nine.
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How To Keep IoT Hunters And Poachers Out Of Your Food And Farms

A drone equipped to “sniff” Zigbee flew over an Austin neighborhood in early August and found almost 1,600 devices. It's a sign of how ubiquitous these..
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China to lose earliest manufacturing gauge as Flash PMI ends

It’s the second change this year for the China indicator, after HSBC Holdings Plc ended its sponsorship and Caixin, a Chinese business magazine, took over. Laura Davis, a Singapore-based spokeswoman for Markit, declined to comment on why the advance reading for China will no longer be released.
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