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Both Causing & Preventing Heart Attacks: Is Modern Technology a Zero Sum Game?

Call it a “High Tech Wash” (At Least at the Societal Level) “Racing the Clock, Saving the Heart:  Faster Care Helps Death Rate Plunge 38% in Decade.”  –Headline; NYT (June 21, 2015) “A study published in 2012 that tracked women for 10 years concluded that stressful jobs increased the risk of a cardiovascular event by 38%.”...
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North Dakota Boom, Twin Cities Ripples?

Hanging Sheet Rock for $90k a Year Is North Dakota’s energy-driven economic boom creating ripple effects in the Twin Cities? Specifically, in the Twin Cities labor market? It would appear that way. Anecdotally, I’m now hearing of Twin Cities contractors whose labor force is depleted because of the siren call coming from western North Dakota....
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