JC Flowers Told To Make Friends Bid Or Walk
The Takeover Panel today stepped in to the escalating row between JC Flowers and Friends Provident, by ordering the US buyout to make a firm offer for the struggling insurer or walk away....
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BHP Stirred By Wild West Nickel Outlook
The metal may have slumped, but its prospects are driving new production....
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Shiite Rivalries Slash At A Once Calm Iraqi City
Unrest in Diwaniya reflects a new landscape in which Shiite groups no longer look to politics to allocate power....
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Former Brocade Official Sentenced In Backdating Case
The former human resources chief of Brocade Communications Systems was sentenced to four months in prison for her role in a stock options backdating scheme....
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Session Over, Corzine Vows Not To Back Down On Benefits
Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey said that he was prepared to embark on ’serious restructuring? efforts because soaring costs would make it impossible for the state to keep pace over the next decade....
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Health News

Vital Signs: Exercise: Tying Neighborhoods to Fitness Efforts
2008-03-26 04:51 - A recent study finds that the neighborhood that poorer people live in may play just as big a role as their income in how likely they are to exercise.

Global Update: Indonesia: Warnings on Failure to Contain Avian Flu and...
2008-03-26 04:51 - The avian flu situation in Indonesia is grave, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned last week.

Vital Signs: Disparities: Wealth Factor Seen in Mammogram Rates
2008-03-26 04:50 - A new study found that wealthier women were more likely to get mammograms than poorer ones were.

TB Patients Chafe Under Lockdown in South Africa
2008-03-26 04:50 - South Africa is trying to balance the liberty of patients with tuberculosis against the need to protect society.

Guidelines for Epidemics: Who Gets a Ventilator?
2008-03-26 04:50 - A new report says doctors, health care workers and the public need to start thinking about the idea of denying life support to some people during a public health disaster.

Cases: When the Disease Eludes a Diagnosis
2008-03-26 04:50 - Why do doctors and patients often approach the diagnosis of disease so differently?

Skipping Cereal and Eggs, and Packing on Pounds
2008-03-26 04:50 - A new study reports that the more often adolescents eat breakfast, the less likely they are to be overweight.

Books: From Forgotten Luggage, Stories of Mental Illness
2008-03-26 04:50 - Hundreds of pieces of patients? luggage left behind at Willard State Hospital included items that carry pathos and power in their very plainness.

Under New Management: The Tension Builds (It’s Almost Monday)
2008-03-24 06:01 - The most commonly cited source of stress by respondents in a recent survey was work. Since stress is a drag on productivity, why don?t more employers face the topic?

What if a Flu Like 1918’s Broke Out Now?
2008-03-24 06:01 - Five years after an avian flu outbreak in Asia made pandemic flu planning a priority, some experts are concerned that states in the region have not been equally vigilant about preparing.


 
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