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您有在使用蘋果的產品嗎？iPad、iPod 還是IPhone呢？公車上、捷運上，越來越多人拿著平板電腦或是抱著手機在消磨無聊的通勤時光，您覺得擁有蘋果產品是一種時尚嗎？這是不是一種品牌迷思呢？以下這篇文章是在研究蘋果迷們崇拜的心態，讓我們一起來看看！

 

Fans of Apple products are known for their extreme devotion to the technology brand. 

But a new TV programme suggests that this desire for iPods and iPads can occasionally border on the religious. 

An MRI scan of an Apple fanatic's brain has found the same part lit up as a believer's did when they gazed upon religious imagery.

Rejoice: Apple employees cheer as the iPad 2 goes on sale. Fans of the brand have an obsession(3) bordering on the religious. Right, Moses (portrayed by Charlton Heston) holds aloft a tablet of a different kind

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您知道美國的食品安全法案為何嗎？美國怎麼樣掌控食品的安全？有沒有值得台灣借鏡的地方？讓我們一起來閱讀以下的文章！



Food safety law: Six ways it will make food safer

With the stroke of a pen, President Obama on Tuesday inaugurated the biggest reform in food safety in years. The Food Safety Modernization Act contains changes in rules and procedures that only a bureaucrat could love. Some Republicans threaten to prevent funding its reforms. Still, the law has unusually broad support in Congress, the food industry, and consumer groups. Here are its Top 6 reforms, which will make your food safer:

1. Preventive controls

Staff Writer, with CNA

Lady Gaga poses on the red carpet at the CFDA Fashion awards at the Lincoln Center in New York on Monday.

Photo: Reuters

Wherever Lady Gaga goes, her fans — whom she calls “little monsters” — follow and so do TV ratings.

The American pop star is scheduled to visit Taiwan next month to promote her latest album and that has set local television stations into a frenzy to try to get her to appear on their shows.

Lady Gaga will visit after performing at the MTV Video Music Aid Japan event on June 25, a representative from Universal Music Taiwan said. So far, the singer’s record label has received dozens of invitations from television stations.

“It’s pretty much all the variety shows you can think of,” including Chang Fei (張菲), one of Taiwan’s premier TV hosts, the spokesperson said.

For Lady Gaga fans, the pop star’s arrival promises to be a feast for their senses, since she usually pushes the boundaries with what she wears and says during public appearances.

One Facebook fan posted a message on the Lady Gaga Taiwan Official Forum that read: “Hope gaga will be on TV all day that week.”

Local corporations have also expressed interest in sponsoring the singer’s trip or inviting her to endorse their products. but the dates and other details of her first visit have not been set, Universal Music said.

LADYGAGA’S VIDEO FOR “THE EDGE OF GLORY” SET FOR PREMIERE ON “SO YOU THINK YOU CANDANCE?” ON THURSDAY, JUNE 16!   

The video for“The Edge Of Glory,” the newest hit single from Lady Gaga’s sensational Born This Way(Streamline/Interscope/KonLive),will premiere in an extended preview on Thursday, June 16 during “So You ThinkYou Can Dance?” on FOX (8 p.m. ET). The complete video, directed by Haus of Gaga, will be available onlineat Vevo.com.  “The Edge Of Glory,” the third officialsingle spun off from the fastest-selling album of the year, debuted #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Gaga’s10th consecutive Top 10.

Written by Lady Gaga, “The Edge Of Glory” was produced by Gaga, FernandoGaribay and DJ White Shadow.  Inits review, NME called the song “quite simply a Great Pop Moment.”

Born This Way, released May 23^rd,has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and Gaga herself has been laudedas a “pop visionary” by Rolling Stone magazine.  People magazine noted,“Nodoubt Born This Way is an anthemic coronation of her place aspop’s ruling diva.”

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING:Lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer deaths, while heart disease was No. 2 on the Top 10 causes of death in Taiwan. Suicide was No. 11

One person dies of cancer every 13 minutes in Taiwan, making it the leading cause of death in the country, the Department of Health said yesterday.

Of the 144,709 people who died last year, about 28 percent (41,046) died of malignant tumors, down 0.7 percentage points compared with the previous year, Bureau of Health Promotion Deputy Director-General Kung Hsien-lan (孔憲蘭) said.

To be more precise, every 12 minutes and 48 seconds, one person dies of cancer, which topped the list of major causes of death again this year, followed by heart disease (10.8 percent), cerebrovascular disease (7 percent), pneumonia (6.2 percent), diabetes (5.7 percent), accidents (4.6 percent), chronic respiratory disease (3.6 percent), chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (3.4 percent), hypertensive disease (2.9 percent) and nephritis, nephritic syndrome and nephrosis (2.8 percent).

Suicide, which accounted for 2.9 percent of deaths in 2009, was edged out of the Top 10 list last year, moving down one ranking to 11th — the first time since 1997 that suicide was not on the Top 10 list, the department said.

Last year was the 29th straight year that cancer was the leading cause of death nationwide.

With 20 percent of deaths caused by cancer, lung cancer was the most prevalent type, followed by liver cancer (19 percent), colorectal cancer (11 percent), breast cancer in women (4 percent), oral cancer (6 percent), stomach cancer (5.5 percent), prostate cancer (2.5 percent), esophageal cancer (3.8 percent), pancreatic cancer (3.6 percent) and cervical cancer (1.7 percent).

It was worth noting that fewer people died from stomach cancer than oral cancer, Kung said. For about a quarter of a century there has been a downward trend in stomach cancer mortality rates, probably because people are eating more fresh food, she said.

However, the rise in oral cancers could be the result of an increase in the consumption of alcohol, tobacco and betel nuts, Kung said.