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Man who allegedly faked his own death for insurance money returned to Taiwan

(CAN)-- A man who was accused of faking his own death and that of his wife in 2001 to collect NT$64.82 million (US$2.20 million) in life insurance was escorted back to Taiwan from China by police Sunday.

Hsu Wen-tung, 66, was found when his wife died of a heart attack in Jiangsu Province, China in May this year and their children tried to have the body returned to Taiwan for burial, the police said.
 
After almost five months of negotiations with Chinese law enforcement authorities, Taiwan police were able to bring Hsu back to Taiwan at 3:45 p.m. Sunday.
 
Hsu and his wife allegedly fled to China with fake passports and had been living there under false identities since 2005 after defrauding an insurance company of a huge sum of money.
 
The couple used to run a construction business that accumulated tens of millions of Taiwan dollars in debt.
 
During a typhoon in July 2001, they faked a car crash on the northeastern Coastal Highway toward Yilan and were reported missing, with the help of their children, according to police.
 
Their wrecked car was found the next day off the roadway, apparently having fallen from the highway at the 84 kilometer mark, but there were no bodies in the vehicle, police said.
 
Police said the couple hid in a rented flat in New Taipei for four years before fleeing to China.
 
Meanwhile, their three children, listed as beneficiaries on the couple's life insurance policies, sought to have their parents legally declared dead and to claim the insurance payments for accidental death.
 
Cathay Life Insurance Co., which had sold the couple the policies in 1993, sued the children for fraud, citing weather data, eyewitness reports and police evidence.
 
The courts, however, ruled in favor of the children, saying the two bodies may have washed into the ocean after the car crash, and instructed the company to pay the claims of NT$64.82 million.

Questions:

1. What do you think about this false insurance claim?

2. What do you think about insurance fraud cases in Taiwan? (Ex: cutting fingers, fake car accidents)

3. What is the easiest quickest way to get money legal or illegal?

4. What do you do if you were in debts and you have no money to pay back a debt? Where to get help?

5. What happens if you get into an accident and don't have insurance?

What happens if you don't buy life insurance?

6. How to handle insurance frauds, if you were the man who is in charge of insurance claims in an insurance company?

7. What kinds of insurance do you need? And do you buy any kind of insurance?

狗仔隊與台灣宣傳
             

 
Filmmakers, public blast Taiwan media for hounding on Luc Besson film


(Focus Taiwan Christie Chen)


Taipei, Oct. 28 (CNA) Taiwanese filmmakers and members of the public have expressed disappointment with local media after news that French director Luc Besson may cut short filming in Taipei for his new movie "Lucy" due to repeated disturbances by media workers.


"The media and public should show their love for Taiwan... If Luc Besson is scared away, would other foreign directors be willing to shoot films in Taiwan?" veteran director Chu Yen-Ping was quoted in the China Times Monday.

In a United Daily News report the same day, producer Lee Lieh said that films, especially Hollywood films, are the best way to advertise Taiwan, urging the media to recognize that "Taiwan needs this kind of publicity."

Academic and former senior reporter Liu Huei-ling explained the aggressive approach of media workers as a symptom of a highly competitive industry that has caused reporters to lose sight of what is and is not appropriate.

Meanwhile, thousands of furious Taiwanese haven taken to the Internet to condemn the behavior of reporters and photographers, which they labeled paparazzi, for hounding Besson and his cast and crew.

"Paparazzi, please stop shaming the Taiwanese," read a comment by a Web user calling himself Weizai on a report that Besson plans to cut shooting, including planned shots at landmarks like Longshan Temple, due to harassment.

On another report, a user calling himself Max wrote that the media "do not represent Taiwan, but if you and I chose to remain silent and let them get away with it without saying anything, we are choosing to hurt Taiwan." The comment received hundreds of "likes" from other users.

Besson's crew reported to police Friday a near-collision when their cars were almost hit by pursuing media workers, according to the Taipei City Government. In a separate incident, photographers reportedly surrounded and banged on the windows of a car carrying Scarlett Johansson, the film's female lead, when it stopped at a red light.

Questions:

1. Should celebrities be more protected from the media?

2. Why photographers are chasing celebrity?

Do the paparazzi go too far?

What do you think about paparazzi?

3. Do you agree that “Hollywood films are the best way to advertise Taiwan " and Taiwan needs this kind of publicity?

4. In your opinion, is there any other ways to advertise Taiwan?

5. How do the media affect how people think?

6. What do you think about TV news theses days?
 (中央社記者劉建邦台北27日電)刑事局今天押解詐保案66歲許文同回台。許男夫妻在桃芝颱風襲台期間假死詐保,在台躲了近4年,民國94年持假證件飛往大陸。

 警方查出,90729日許姓夫婦開車前往宜蘭,經北濱公路金石園停車場附近,製造假意外,把車推落下方海蝕平台;隔天民眾發現報案,墜崖車輛嚴重損害,但只遺留被害人手機、鞋子等許多物品,但許姓夫婦不知去向,列為風災失蹤人口。
 
 警方調查,1年後許姓夫妻小孩以遭遇特別災難向新北地方法院聲請宣告死亡,經法院宣告死亡確定,向保險公司詐領保險金新台幣6400萬元。
 
 警方表示,許男案發後,藏匿新北市淡水租屋處,94年透過報紙小廣告,購買假護照、台胞證,之後在小孩協助下,夫婦兩人潛逃大陸上海,直到許妻今年5月因病過世,才爆出假死12年詐保案。
 
詐保案曝光 許妻過世是關鍵 
 
(中央社記者劉建邦台北27日電)刑事局今天押解詐保案涉案人66歲許文同回台,警方說許妻今年5月因心肌梗塞過世,兒子隔月向地檢署自白,才讓案情曝光。

  民國907月底「桃芝」颱風襲台期間,造成全台百人死傷,729日許姓夫婦開車前往宜蘭,經北濱公路金石園停車場附近,跌落下方海蝕平台。隔天民眾發現報案,墜崖車輛嚴重損害,但現場只留兩人手機、鞋子等物品,夫婦兩人被列為風災失蹤人口。
  刑事局調查,從事建築業的許姓夫婦從82年至89年期間向保險公司投保壽險和意外險,共10件,受益人為2男、1女一共3名子女,理賠總金額達11940萬元。
 
  因房價在89年大跌,許男負債累累,警方說,許男和2名兒子共謀在90年颱風來襲期間,製造假意外墜崖失蹤,隔年許男小孩以遭遇特別災難為由,向新北地院聲請宣告死亡,經法院宣告死亡確定,向保險公司詐領保險金,成功領取6480多萬元。
 
 警方指出,藏匿大陸多年的許男妻子今年5月因心肌梗塞逝世,許男兒子6月赴基隆地檢署自白和父母親及哥哥共謀,在風災期間以假死詐領保險金。
 
阻偷拍路上演出「拋錨戲」 法導演台北拍片爆衝突

 法國導演呂克.貝松(Luc Besson)在台北拍新片《露西》(Lucy),劇組人員日前遭狗仔阻擋上車,雙方發生肢體衝撞,導演震怒到警局備案。而為阻劇情曝光,劇組也使出渾身解數,工作人員近日竟在路上演出「拋錨戲」,擋住媒體跟拍。

台北市電影委員會媒體和出版總編輯盧悅珠表示,日前,呂克.貝松劇組人員、演員遭狗仔跟拍,直到一行人上車後還不善罷干休,用手猛拍車窗。《中國時報》報道,不僅如此,近日,劇組人員從晶華酒店離開時,有狗仔衝上前搶拍不讓上車,雙方一度發生衝撞,並傳出發生媒體車衝撞劇組車事件,呂克.貝松好不容易脫身到車上,狗仔還一路追趕,接連狀況嚇得呂克.貝松團隊已忍無可忍,只好到中山警分局備案,希望接下來拍片能順利。

而另一方面,劇組也採取行動防偷拍,近日下午2時多,劇組人員將56台交通車與器材車列隊停在晶華酒店側門,導演盧貝松先行上車準備離開,此時一輛黑色廂型車卻「意外」拋錨,讓後方車輛無法動彈,一身是戲的工作人員也「做戲做全套」,當街演出拋錨推車劇,即使後方民眾車輛猛按喇叭,劇組人員仍不為所動,緩緩將車子推到一旁的平面停車場。

晚間6時,劇組則是來到北市吉林路與錦州街口,拍攝邢峰開的士劇情,現場將近30位工作人員,在開拍前先是進行交通管制,保鏢也四處巡邏,嚴防拍戲畫面曝光。

台北市長郝龍斌亦出面喊話,媒體的「熱情」影響拍片進度,在約定區域外出現危險動作,希望大家自制,讓國際導演、演員對台灣、台北留下好印象。風災假死詐保險金 許文同押返台

 





周二(10/29) 1.嫁給億萬富翁?2. 中藥&針灸

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Want to marry a Billionaire in China? (cnbc.com)

Last week in Jinan, China, more than 1,300 women wearing exquisite make-up and elegant dresses were asked to iron, cook, and tie a necktie. The goal: to qualify for a competition that will match 50 women with 50 millionaires for a blind date this July.

The men's identities are kept secret, but their net worth isn't. Organizers say they're worth an average of $25 million each.

In addition to being judged on their looks and cleaning ability, the women were asked to draw a picture for psychologists to evaluate. Organizers also interviewed their friends and colleagues to assess their associates and connections.

While the women spared no efforts to show that they would make perfect wives, the millionaires were not at the scene. Only when the field has been whittled down to 50 women will the millionaires show up for a final party.

A report from Capgemini and RBC shows 12 million millionaires worldwide, whose fortunes grew 10 percent to a record $46 trillion, reports CNBC's Robert Frank. Janet Engles, RBC Wealth Management, weighs in.News and photos of the event have triggered heated debate on Weibo, China's Twitter-like service. Although it wasn't the first time a pageant-style matchmaking gig created controversy, many micro-bloggers bitterly denounced the Jinan event as a sign of money worship, a serious social illness in China, they argued.

One Weibo user wrote: "Are we going backward to the feudal society where the emperor held mass-selection to choose his concubines? What a lamentable society, all about money, all after money, do the women still have their self-esteem?''

Cheng Yongsheng, the CEO of the Chinese Entrepreneurs Club for Singles (CECS), which has organized the blind date for four times since May 2012, defended the event by saying that it serves a real need that rich people have.

"I had the idea of creating CECS in 2012 originally because one of my friends who is also a millionaire told me how he is frustrated about finding a wife. It struck me for the first time that even these seemingly omnipotent rich guys have their weaknesses and vulnerabilities just like normal people," Cheng said.

Moreover, Cheng believes it is even harder for millionaires to find wives because they are not as resourceful and sociable as people assume. More importantly, they are so engaged with their work that they don't have the time and energy to go on dates.

Questions:

1. Will you marry a billionaire?

Would you marry a super rich, ugly billionaire Arab prince?

(or a super rich, but ugly woman)

2. How to marry a billionaire?

3. Do smart women marry money?

What you think women marry the rich people?

4. Are Chinese people rich?

What is your impression of the rich people in china?

5. Would you choose to marry for love or money?

6. Is it harder to find future spouse in our society?

7. What do you think of blind dates?

Will you join to the blind day to find future partner?


 中藥&針灸

                 

Traditional Chinese medicine (Wikipedia)



Traditional Chinese medicine is a broad range of medicine practices sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 5,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (Tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy.

The doctrines of Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Treatise on Cold Damage, as well as in cosmological notions like yin-yang and the five phases. Starting in the 1950s, these precepts were modernized in the People's Republic of China so as to integrate many anatomical and pathological notions with modern scientific medicine. Nonetheless, some of its methods, including the model of the body, or concept of disease, are not supported by modern evidence-based medicine.

TCM's view of the body places little emphasis on anatomical structures, but is mainly concerned with the identification of functional entities (which regulate digestion, breathing, aging etc.). While health is perceived as harmonious interaction of these entities and the outside world, disease is interpreted as a disharmony in interaction. TCM diagnosis includes in tracing symptoms to patterns of an underlying disharmony, by measuring the pulse, inspecting the tongue, skin, eyes and by looking at the eating and sleeping habits of the patient as well as many other things.


Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a collection of procedures involving penetration of the skin with needles to stimulate certain points on the body. In its classical form it is a characteristic component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It has been categorized as a complementary health approach.[1] According to traditional Chinese medicine, stimulating specific acupuncture points corrects imbalances in the flow of qi through channels known as meridians.

Questions:
1. What you think about Chinese traditional medicine?

2. Do you trust in Chinese traditional medicine?

Do you trust in herbal medicine of Chinese?

Are Chinese herbs safe to use?

3. What is the effectiveness of Chinese medicine vs western medicine in treating?

4. Do you think western medicine more effective than Chinese medicine?

5. Do you believe in alternative medicine?

6. Do you believe that acupuncture works?

  Do you believe in qigong treatment?

7. What you think about dietary therapy?

求「真」愛?陸富豪辦相親 測謊儀伺候
TVBS作者: 許甫 | TVBS 201392
 
大陸近年來興起富豪相親,大張旗鼓舉辦相親會,吸引妙齡女子爭相報名,但除了一般對身高、學歷、年齡有要求外,四川成都的相親會,居然還比照刑案偵辦,請來測謊專家以及測謊儀,訊問參加女子,結果100名的報名者中,不是放棄就是沒通過測謊,通通淘汰。
 
富豪徵婚參加者:「這個我需要做嗎?不是交給傭人做就行了。」
 
想要嫁給億萬富豪,先看有什麼本事,一邊抱怨、一邊摺完襯衫,北京的富豪徵婚的面試中,要考的絕不只這一項。富豪徵婚形象顧問:「抱歉讓您久等了。」
 
形象審核標準嚴苛,皮膚要光澤有彈性,不能有暗沉、粉刺和疤痕,光目測不夠,四川成都的富豪徵婚還有法寶,測一測是不是「表裡如一」。相親會工作人員vs.參加女子:「無機鹽的含量不夠,就是妳今天沒有好好吃飯,妳是今天測的美女裡面,(數值)比較低的喔。」
 
體脂肪、水分、鹽分,通通都要計較,因為她們對象是身家不斐的富豪們,但最驚人的還在後頭。工作人員:「妳對於男士有沒有一個,他資產方面的要求?」相親會參加女子:「沒有,就差不多就行了,大家在一起,能過上比較舒適的生活就可以了。」
 
測謊專家:「她說對男朋友一點要求都沒有,我覺得似乎不準確。」
 
請來測謊專家還有測謊儀,比照刑案問訊辦理,參賽的100名美女中,大多打退堂鼓,有勇氣挑戰的,通通沒過關,測謊目的達成,也反映出整個相親會本質,就是追逐名利的愛情謊言

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Sorry, but you’re not my (blood) type

Forget the stars, palmistry, crystal gazing, tarot cards or even tea leaves. It seems your characteristics, career, health, marriage, fate and luck are all actually flowing through your veins.

Whether you are friendly, aloof, considerate, industrious, prone to worrying, cynical, good in bed or in the right job is, a growing number of personality analysts say, all in the blood.

They claim the blood type you were born with has just as much influence over your character and fate as the signs of the zodiac. 

In fact, many personality analysts say it could be a more accurate guide because your blood type is determined by the genes of your parents and through it you inherit all their ancestral traits. You then develop the traits that are best suited to your personality.

Big in Japan

The Japanese, who have always placed a lot of importance on ancestry and blood lines, are so certain of the links between biochemistry and personality that magazines and newspapers carry the week’s fortunes for each blood type.

It is estimated that as many as 75 per cent of Japanese people believe there is a connection between blood type and personality. The vast majority of their lonely hearts advertisements include blood type. Nearly everyone in Japan knows their blood group and they take the idea very seriously.

The four main blood types are O (the most common), A, B and AB.

If you are a blood donor, you will know that type O can give blood to any type, but can receive from only type O, and are called universal donors.

Type A individuals can give blood safely to A and AB types. B types can give to B or AB.

Blood lines

According to the believers, all these different combinations play a part in passing on particular talents and qualities through generations.

The world’s leading proponent of blood-typing is undoubtedly Japan’s Toshitaka Nomi, who is following in the footsteps of his late father, Masahiko, who first published books on the blood-typing theory in 1971.

Between them father and son have produced more than 60 books, which have sold more than six million copies and have helped bring the Japanese ideas and beliefs about blood-type psychology to a wider audience.

This is what their studies have to say about how our blood type influences the way we are likely to behave and the path we are most likely to follow…

Blood group diet

More recently, research into blood types and diet has been carried out by an American naturopathic doctor, Peter D’Adamo. He believes our blood type determines what we should eat.


  Questions:
Do you believe in blood type characters?
Do you believe the blood type determine a person' character?
Does your blood type affect your diet?
Does the eat right for your blood type diet really work?
The importance of blood type in Taiwanese culture?
Do you believe “the Success depends on blood group”?
 
假油/食品安全/太空旅行
Taiwan -- Flavor Full fined NT$8 mil. in oil scandal
1. Flavor Full fined NT$8 mil. in oil scandal
Flavor Full Foods (富味鄉食品公司) yesterday admitted to adding cottonseed oil to 24 cooking oil products sold in Taiwan, New Taipei City's Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday.
Q:
What do think about fack cooking oil case?
2. Premier gives 6-point order for handling cooking oil
Premier Jiang Yi-huah on Thursday issued a directive aimed at improving six aspects of food safety, after it was found that various edible oil products sold under the Tatung brand had been adulterated with cheap cottonseed oil as a way to boost profits. 
Q:
What do you think about food safety in Taiwan?
3. Balloons: the new vehicle for space tourism?
The latest space tourism venture depends more on hot air than rocket science. World View Enterprises announced plans Tuesday to send people up in a capsule, lifted 19 miles (30 kilometers) by a high-altitude balloon. Jane Poynter, CEO of the Tucson, Arizona-based company, said the price for the four-hour ride would be US$75,000.
Q;
What you think about space tourism?
 

Court awards insurance payment on dead couple found hiding

Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) The Cathay Life Insurance Co., Ltd. on Thursday lost its lawsuit against three siblings to whom it had paid accidental death benefits of NT$64.82 million (US$2.21 million) after their parents disappeared in a car accident, as Taiwan's Supreme Court ruled against the company in the case of alleged insurance fraud.
Q:
What you think about  insurance frauds in taiwan ?


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死亡手錶
The Tikker: a 'death watch' that counts down how long you have left to live  (James Vincent)

 Running late? With Tikker you always are. This so-called “death watch” provides the ultimate momento mori: a no-frills LCD screen that counts down exactly how long you have left to live.

 Built by a group of “designers, free-thinkers, lovers and life-afficionados” the concept behind the Tikker is to remind wearers of the important things in life. Never has the Tikker’s slogan – “make every second count” – been applied more appropriately.

 Fredrik Colting, the watch’s creator, says the idea came to after his grandfather passed away: "It made me think about death and the transience of life, and I realized that nothing matters when you are dead. Instead what matters is what we do when we are alive,” says Colting on the Kickstarter page for the watch.

 It seems that a lot of people agree with Colting. Funding for the watch began last month and the Tikker has already collected more than double its $25,000 goal, with over 1,300 individuals coughing up $39 for the watch.

 As well as the timepiece itself, the Tikker comes with a simple actuarial quiz that provides users with a (very) rough estimate of their time left on Earth. Users punch this number into the Tikker and then, without ceremony, the watch begins its final countdown.

  “All we have to do is learn how to cherish the time and the life that we have been given,” says Tikker’s Kickstarter page, “ And the best way to do this is to realize that seconds, days and years are passing never to come again.”

Questions:

1. What do you think about the death watch?

Is it a good idea that having a Tikker "death watch" reminds every second?

2. Do you care how long will you live?

3. How does your parents' lifespan affect your lifespan?

4. In you opinion, what factors make people live longer? People in which countries would live longer?

5. How to extend your life expectancy?

Ways to add years to your life?

6. “The death watch” is a new invention, if you want to invent something,

What would you like to invent?

7. What happens when the average lifespan is 150 years?

8. What do you think about death?
 

金錢與智力


    
Poverty Stress Weakens Brain Power
 
New research finds a link between poverty and poor decision making. The findings were reported in the journal Science. They may help explain why poor people sometimes make bad choices that prolong their economic hardship. Jim Tedder reports.
 
Earlier studies have found that poor people are less likely to take care of their health. Studies have shown they also do worse with their finances, and pay less attention to their children than do richer people. All of these actions make the poor less likely to escape poverty, research suggests.
 
 But there has been little research on why the poor make decisions that make their lives harder. Until recently, it was economists who studied poverty, not psychologists. Eldar Shafir is a psychologist with Princeton University in New Jersey. He says now scientists from both fields work together.
 
And in the last few years the two disciplines sort of combined forces. And we just became interested in cognitive function and its impact when people struggle with not having enough.”
 
Mr. Shafir and his team did two experiments. One took place at a shopping center in New Jersey. Another was carried out among sugar cane farmers in rural India.
 
 The New Jersey experiment involved individuals with low paying jobs and others said to belong to the middle class. All the volunteers were asked what they would do if their cars needed repairs. The researchers then performed tests for reason, such as choosing which shape fits in a pattern of shapes.
 
 The volunteers were given two possible imaginary situations. In the first, the car repairs cost $150. In the second, the repairs cost $1,500.
 
And what we found is, when we looked at the cases where the financial scenario in the background was not too challenging, the poor and the rich performed equally well on all the cognitive tests.”
 
 Not so when the researchers raised the repair costs to $1,500.
 
Once we tickled their minds with financially more challenging problems, now the poor performed significantly worse.”

  The study showed the poorer individuals lost about 13 intelligent quotient, IQ, points on average. This is about the loss experienced when a person has not slept for one night.
 
 The scientists then wondered if they would see the same result outside the controlled environment of a New Jersey shopping mall. And they wanted to know if the same person reacted differently when he was rich and when he was poor.
 
 That is where the Indian sugar cane farmers came in. They earn most of their money once a year, when the harvest comes in. But the money often does not last through the year.
 
So they find themselves basically rich after the harvest when the income comes in and poor just before the harvest.”
 
 The researchers gave them tests similar to the ones taken by the people in New Jersey. They tested the Indian farmers before the harvest and after.
 
 And the results were much the same as with the mall shoppers.
 
They performed much more slowly and with many more errors when they were poorer than when they were richer.”
 
Questions:

1. Do you think poverty makes people less intelligent?


How a lack of money could make people less intelligent?

2. Rich people are smarter than poor people?

3. Do you think that smart people usually are rich?

4. Do billionaires have higher IQs? Are rich people smarter than you?

5. Do wealthy people work harder? Are poor people lazy?

6. How to become a billionaire in 5 to 10 years? Ways to be a billionaire?

7. How do we lessen the gap between the rich and the poor?
 煩三餐著落降腦力 窮人翻身難

 (中央社華盛頓/倫敦29日綜合外電報導)國際研究今天指出,貧窮與其伴隨的煩心事項,所消耗的腦力多到讓人幾乎無法關切生活其他面向,窮人智商甚至少了13分,恐較易做出錯誤決策,惡化原有經濟困境。
 
根據這篇發表在「科學」(Science)期刊的研究,身處貧窮會使個人心智資源枯竭,讓人較無法專注在其他事情,像是在解決問題與控制衝動上。
 
這項研究並非意指窮人較笨,而是研究結果顯示,阮囊羞澀會造成「有效腦力」、也就是研究人員所謂的「心智寬頻」(mental bandwidth),會因養家活口的壓力而大幅受到限制。

 研究共同作者、哈佛大學經濟學家穆拉納坦(Sendhil Mullainathan)說:「研究發現,當人很窮的時候,缺的不只是錢,也連帶影響認知能力。」

 研究人員發現,這項精神上緊繃的結果,可能使窮人智商(IQ)降低13分,讓他們更可能犯錯與做出錯誤決策,使他們原本的經濟困境更嚴重且更難以脫身。

 研究共同作者、英屬哥倫比亞大學(University of British Columbia)趙佳穎(Jiaying Zhao,譯音)說:「我們認為身處貧窮會影響認知功能,會妨礙個人做出良好決策的能力,造成更進一步的貧窮。」

 研究對象是新澤西州1間購物商城約400名民眾,年薪從2萬美元到7萬美元不等;另項實驗對象則是印度蔗農,實驗時間分別是在年度採收前、農民捉襟見肘時,以及採收後、手頭較寬裕的時候。

研究人員發現,農民手頭有錢時,測驗結果較好。

研究人員說,研究顯示,要解決貧窮相關問題,經濟援助是太過簡化的方法,應該從貧窮勞動階層最擔心的部分著手,像是托嬰,反而能更有效解決問題。(譯者:中央社陳怡君)

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血型/性格/飲食

Sorry, but you’re not my (blood) type

Forget the stars, palmistry, crystal gazing, tarot cards or even tea leaves. It seems your characteristics, career, health, marriage, fate and luck are all actually flowing through your veins.

Whether you are friendly, aloof, considerate, industrious, prone to worrying, cynical, good in bed or in the right job is, a growing number of personality analysts say, all in the blood.

They claim the blood type you were born with has just as much influence over your character and fate as the signs of the zodiac. 

In fact, many personality analysts say it could be a more accurate guide because your blood type is determined by the genes of your parents and through it you inherit all their ancestral traits. You then develop the traits that are best suited to your personality.

Big in Japan

The Japanese, who have always placed a lot of importance on ancestry and blood lines, are so certain of the links between biochemistry and personality that magazines and newspapers carry the week’s fortunes for each blood type.

It is estimated that as many as 75 per cent of Japanese people believe there is a connection between blood type and personality. The vast majority of their lonely hearts advertisements include blood type. Nearly everyone in Japan knows their blood group and they take the idea very seriously.

The four main blood types are O (the most common), A, B and AB.

If you are a blood donor, you will know that type O can give blood to any type, but can receive from only type O, and are called universal donors.

Type A individuals can give blood safely to A and AB types. B types can give to B or AB.

Blood lines

According to the believers, all these different combinations play a part in passing on particular talents and qualities through generations.

The world’s leading proponent of blood-typing is undoubtedly Japan’s Toshitaka Nomi, who is following in the footsteps of his late father, Masahiko, who first published books on the blood-typing theory in 1971.

Between them father and son have produced more than 60 books, which have sold more than six million copies and have helped bring the Japanese ideas and beliefs about blood-type psychology to a wider audience.

This is what their studies have to say about how our blood type influences the way we are likely to behave and the path we are most likely to follow…

Blood group diet

More recently, research into blood types and diet has been carried out by an American naturopathic doctor, Peter D’Adamo. He believes our blood type determines what we should eat.

 
  Questions:
Do you believe in blood type characters?
Do you believe the blood type determine a person' character?
Does your blood type affect your diet?
Does the eat right for your blood type diet really work?
The importance of blood type in Taiwanese culture?
Do you believe “the Success depends on blood group”?
 
假油/食品安全/太空旅行
Taiwan -- Flavor Full fined NT$8 mil. in oil scandal
1. Flavor Full fined NT$8 mil. in oil scandal
Flavor Full Foods (富味鄉食品公司) yesterday admitted to adding cottonseed oil to 24 cooking oil products sold in Taiwan, New Taipei City's Department of Health (DOH) announced yesterday.
Q:
What do think about fack cooking oil case?
2. Premier gives 6-point order for handling cooking oil
Premier Jiang Yi-huah on Thursday issued a directive aimed at improving six aspects of food safety, after it was found that various edible oil products sold under the Tatung brand had been adulterated with cheap cottonseed oil as a way to boost profits. 
Q:
What do you think about food safety in Taiwan?
3. Balloons: the new vehicle for space tourism?
The latest space tourism venture depends more on hot air than rocket science. World View Enterprises announced plans Tuesday to send people up in a capsule, lifted 19 miles (30 kilometers) by a high-altitude balloon. Jane Poynter, CEO of the Tucson, Arizona-based company, said the price for the four-hour ride would be US$75,000.
Q;
What you think about space tourism?
 

Court awards insurance payment on dead couple found hiding

Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) The Cathay Life Insurance Co., Ltd. on Thursday lost its lawsuit against three siblings to whom it had paid accidental death benefits of NT$64.82 million (US$2.21 million) after their parents disappeared in a car accident, as Taiwan's Supreme Court ruled against the company in the case of alleged insurance fraud.
Q:
What you think about  insurance frauds in taiwan ?