Just as the abundance of junk food means that people have to be more disciplined about their eating habits, so the abundance of junk information means they have to be more disciplined about their browsing habits.

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This is especially true with regard to unstructured content, most of which is duplicate information or unnecessary (think of all the junk and transitory email).

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The Congress must also expand health savings accounts, create Association Health Plans for small businesses, promote health information technology, and confront the epidemic of junk medical lawsuits.

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Unlike junk funds, BDCs can and do work with detailed inside information and sometimes negotiate board seats as part of their deals.

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The awareness created by the information and the ability to develop simple solutions would make it easy to dump the junk.

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As the food writer Jane Black has observed, studies show that Americans do not lack information and opportunity to eat more sensibly - they just prefer the taste and convenience of junk food.

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