Taking care of your body should have its own rewards. But a South African health insurance company is adding some new lures, such as discounts on travel, movie tickets and electronics, says the Wall Street Journal.
Just as frequent fliers accumulate miles, South Africans covered by Discovery Health can collect points
Many people wrongly believe that deregulation is at the root of airlines’ troubles. However, governments never truly deregulated airlines in the first place; they have only implemented half-measures that offer the illusion of unregulated competition. Carriers remain at the mercy of monopoly suppliers airports and air traffic control
It’s been one year since the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, but despite claims by the European Union’s top brass that the targets for reducing energy use are easily in reach, the glaring failure to meet the treaty’s targets have put all celebrations on hold, says Dana Joel Gattuso, of
The American public has shown significant concern for environmental quality since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental laws and regulations enacted since then has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success, says Jay Lehr, science director of
Third world countries with malaria epidemics need dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), say the editors of Scientific American Magazine. Unfortunately, wealthy countries often do not fund aid involving DDT, as studies prove agricultural uses of DDT cause animal deaths. However, DDT saves lives when sprayed in houses, says Scientific American as shown
