France is the world's best place to live - according to International Living magazine. The magazine has published its Quality of Life Index for 30 years and for the past 5 years France has been #1. The index ranks 194 countries on climate, cost of living, culture/leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health care, infrastructure and safety/risk. France scores high in most categories, including 100 points for health care, 100 for safety/risk and 92 for infrastructure. Australia ranked #2; Switzerland, #3; and the United States, #7. Because of its economy, the United States' #3 position in 2009 was foreclosed.
Cleveland is the worst U.S. city to live in - according to MSN's 2010 ranking of America's Most Miserable Cities. Any city with a population more than 245,000 was eligible for ranking by commute time, housing, political corruption, pollution, sports teams' performance, taxes, unemployment, violent crime and weather. Cleveland was the only city to rank in the bottom half of every category. Stockton, California was the #2 most miserable city because of unemployment, crime, commuting and taxes. Memphis was #3 because of crime and political corruption. Two hundred cities were ranked. Two hundred cities' citizens were "rankled".
Writing of being rankled, who knew airlines were improving our lifestyle? According to the Transportation Department, airline on-time arrivals in 2009 were the best since 2003 - 79.5%. For most airlines this improvement was due to 2 factors: padding flight times and planes being counted on time if they were less than 15 minutes late. However, for United there were 2 additional factors: using spare planes and giving employee bonuses for first- or second-place monthly finishes. Because the pilots disagreed with how bonuses were calculated, theirs will end in July 2010 - which could fly in the face of United's future on-time success.
Superwoman Syndrome is the attempt by women to achieve success in everything. Unfortunately, women are taking prescription medicine to get ahead - or just keep up. In 2009 approximately 6% of American women - 7.5 million - reported using prescription medicines as performance enhancers for energy or tranquility. Although men are as likely to abuse prescription drugs as women, women are 55% more likely to be prescribed abusable drugs. However, the main source of prescription drugs for non-medical users - 56% - is free drugs from family and friends. Superman lost his power to kryptonite. Today's Superwomen could loose her power to addiction.
Cleveland is the worst U.S. city to live in - according to MSN's 2010 ranking of America's Most Miserable Cities. Any city with a population more than 245,000 was eligible for ranking by commute time, housing, political corruption, pollution, sports teams' performance, taxes, unemployment, violent crime and weather. Cleveland was the only city to rank in the bottom half of every category. Stockton, California was the #2 most miserable city because of unemployment, crime, commuting and taxes. Memphis was #3 because of crime and political corruption. Two hundred cities were ranked. Two hundred cities' citizens were "rankled".
Writing of being rankled, who knew airlines were improving our lifestyle? According to the Transportation Department, airline on-time arrivals in 2009 were the best since 2003 - 79.5%. For most airlines this improvement was due to 2 factors: padding flight times and planes being counted on time if they were less than 15 minutes late. However, for United there were 2 additional factors: using spare planes and giving employee bonuses for first- or second-place monthly finishes. Because the pilots disagreed with how bonuses were calculated, theirs will end in July 2010 - which could fly in the face of United's future on-time success.
Superwoman Syndrome is the attempt by women to achieve success in everything. Unfortunately, women are taking prescription medicine to get ahead - or just keep up. In 2009 approximately 6% of American women - 7.5 million - reported using prescription medicines as performance enhancers for energy or tranquility. Although men are as likely to abuse prescription drugs as women, women are 55% more likely to be prescribed abusable drugs. However, the main source of prescription drugs for non-medical users - 56% - is free drugs from family and friends. Superman lost his power to kryptonite. Today's Superwomen could loose her power to addiction.
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