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Flight attendants get more uterine, thyroid and other cancers, study finds
Disruptions in circadian rhythm -- a person's daily sleep-wake cycle -- are linked to an increased cancer risk, studies have shown.


Wells Fargo is once again being accused of misconduct, this time because it allegedly used complex financial investments to take advantage of mom-and-pop investors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday that between 2009 and 2013, Wells Fargo (WFC) reaped large fees by "improperly encouraging" brokerage clients to actively trade high-fee debt products that were intended to be held to maturity.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/25/investing/wells-fargo-advisors-sec-settlement/index.html


Hidden health hazards of climate change
Climate change is a health hazard. Air pollution and changing weather patterns give rise to heat-related illnesses, such as asthma and allergic disorders.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, insect-borne diseases from ticks and mosquitoes have tripled in the United States in recent years, and warmer weather is largely to blame.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/24/health_hazards_of_climate_change


A recent presentation by the acting head of the United States’ top weather and oceans agency suggested removing the study of “climate” from its official mission statement, focusing the agency’s work instead on economic goals and “homeland and national security.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/25/ocean-science-agency-chief-suggests-removing-climate-from-mission-statement-adding-focus-on-trade-deficit/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.770d987fdc13


The ideal of religious tolerance has crippling flaws. It’s time to embrace a civic philosophy of reciprocity
https://aeon.co/essays/reciprocity-not-tolerance-is-the-basis-of-healthy-societies


Here’s How That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter
https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/ziosk-presto-tabletop-tablet-restaurant-rating-servers?utm_term=.cozexy9am#.nvw9VZXeD
[This is terrible. I'm sure I'm not the only person who rarely answers such questions with extreme values, as a matter of my personality.]
Ziosk scores are tabulated as an average out of five stars, and on the device, it says four out of five stars means “satisfied.” But anything less than perfect drags a score down and has the potential to hurt the server.
“The company only counts fives as good scores,” said Mathew, who works at an Uno Pizzeria & Grill in New Hampshire. “Everything else is basically a complaint.”


The best employees are not the agreeable ones, according to Adam Grant
While the worst employees are disagreeable takers— in a slide, Grant compared them to the vicious Lannisters on Game of Thrones—the agreeable takers are deceptively terrible, fooling colleagues into thinking they’re generous while secretly undermining the organization.
https://work.qz.com/1309735/adam-grant-the-best-employees-are-not-the-agreeable-ones/


A Canadian company is looking to begin mining in land that was previously protected as part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
President Clinton established the monument in 1996, but in December President Trump cut the 1.87 million-acre site nearly in half, removing many of the federal protections.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/393540-canadian-company-to-begin-mining-in-land-that-used-to-be-protected


President Trump on Sunday called for immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. to be sent “back from where they came” without going through the judicial process in deportation cases.
“When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order,” Trump tweeted.
[First step on the way to dictatorship and end of the rule of law.]
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/393850-trump-we-must-immediately-return-undocumented-immigrants-with-no


For the first time in 110 years, General Electric will not be a member of the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average.
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Tuesday that the iconic maker of light bulbs and jet engines will be replaced in the 30-stock index by Walgreens Boots Alliance.
GE (GE) was an original member of the Dow in 1896 and has been in it continuously since November 7, 1907.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/19/investing/ge-dow-jones-walgreens/index.html


A woman in Arizona made the brave choice this week, to make a very private loss — a miscarriage — into a public discussion, in the hopes that her story can save other women from what she went through at her local Walgreens. The pharmacist there refused to fill the prescription required to help her end her pregnancy, citing moral objections, even though her fetus no longer had a heartbeat.


After 25 years of being homeless, he learned there’s one simple thing you can do to help
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/25/after-25-years-of-being-homeless-i-learned-theres-one-simple-thing-you-can-do-to-help-gregory-p-smith


Microplastics in our mussels: the sea is feeding human garbage back to us
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2018/jun/08/microplastics-in-our-mussels-the-sea-is-feeding-human-garbage-back-to-us