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Generation Stress
Although stress in society is on the decline overall, Millennial – those aged 18 to 33 – are still experiencing an unhealthy level of anxiety. At least, if the US is anything to go by. In a survey conducted for the American Psychological Association, young adults reported the highest level of stress, with money, work and job stability cited as the leading causes of concern.
“Millennials are growing up in a tough time,” Mike Hais, a market researcher and author, told USA Today. “Individual failure is difficult to accept when confronted with a sense you’re an important person and expected to achieve. Even though, in most instances, it’s not their fault – the economy collapsed just as many of them were getting out of college and coming of age – that does lead to a greater sense of stress.”
The study also found women were more likely to have felt their stress levels increase, and that for those aged 48 and over, health was the greatest worry.
Read more about the report here.
Gotye’s historic win
Wally de Backer, aka Gotye, has made music history by becoming the first Australian male to win Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards. If that weren’t enough, he also took home Best Alternative Album for Making Mirrors and Best Pop Duo for “Somebody That I Used to Know”, his single with New Zealand songstress Kimbra. The song reached number one on iTunes in 50 countries.
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In one of his many speeches of the night, de Backer thanked his parents “for setting up a lot of weird equipment in a barn near their house”, explaining that much of his music had been recorded on their property southeast of Melbourne.
European horsemeat scandal deepens
If the thought of eating horsemeat makes your stomach turn, spare a thought for shoppers in Britain, Sweden and France who may have inadvertently eaten equine in the mistaken belief that it was beef. France is the latest country to withdraw frozen meat products from its supermarket shelves after it emerged suppliers had been selling horsemeat as beef.
The meat has been traced back from France through Cyprus and the Netherlands to Romania, where an investigation has been launched, the ABC reports.
Comigel, the company that assembles the frozen meals, supplies 16 EU countries.
The British press has suggested the involvement of organised crime syndicates, while others say a change to Romanian road rules, which banned horses from roads and led the slaughter of millions of animals, may have contributed to the problem.
