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New mothers prefer hotels to hospitals

From Hotels Magazine:

Expectant mothers in Ireland are making the recession work for them by booking special deals in luxury hotels for their post-natal care, in preference to expensive stays in private maternity hospitals.

A growing number of pregnant women are avoiding the large bills associated with consultant-led private treatment by opting for free, communitybased midwifery services. Some are then using the savings to book into hotel suites within hours of giving birth, getting top-level after-care for far less than a stay in a private hospital due to the special deals on offer in the hospitality industry.

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Andreessen: IE faces one-two punch

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Is the dust on your computer toxic?

From News.com:

According to new research into chemical residue found in the dust collecting on computers and other electronics devices, the PC that you’re using to read this story could pose a long-term threat to your health.

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Watching Paint Dry Is Latest Reality TV Gimmick

From Reuters:

Some critics say the endless stream of hugely popular reality television shows are as dull as watching paint dry.
Well, now they can test the theory with a live, eight-week round-the-clock Webcast of just that.
Billed as the “ultimate reality TV show,” British pay-channel UKTV Style promises a wall, some brushes and different types of paint in its program “Watching Paint Dry.”

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Talking Windows?

From Reuters:

Whispering shop windows will soon be exported to Germany by a small British company that says they will turn heads and draw customers into shops.
“Whispering Windows” are made by Hull-based company FeONIC and have already been used by British retail chains to attract custom, finance director Jeremy Lee told Reuters Wednesday.

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Pac-Man Game to Jump from Computer to City Streets

From Reuters:

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” Oscar Wilde once wrote. Little did he know that life would eventually also imitate video games.
New York University students plan to stage a real, live Pac-Man game on Saturday in the streets of Greenwich Village, as part of a project exploring how computer games work when transplanted into real-world settings.
In the hugely popular 1980s game that became a cultural icon, Pac-Man, a yellow circle with a wedge removed for his mouth, gobbled up dots while evading ghostly rivals Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde who also try to gobble him.
This weekend a man in a yellow costume will weave through the streets collecting dots while being pursued by people dressed in ghost outfits whose aim is to stop him before he gathers all the dots.