Pension Fund Sues Countrywide Officers
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 (Reuters) ? The chief executive of Countrywide Financial, Angelo R. Mozilo, has been sued by a pension fund that accused the company of helping executives pocket improper gains by...
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Bill Clinton Embarrasses Wife Over Iraq War
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Watch Out, Eddie - Rival Norbert Just Got Bigger
Norbert Dentressangle, the French trucking group, has agreed to buy Christian Salvesen in a deal that values its rival British haulier at £254.4 million....
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EMC Profit Up Nearly 20 Percent
The data storage vendor said second-quarter profit rose to $334.4 million as it recorded double-digit sales gains at its biggest businesses....
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Off The Shelf: Opening The On-Ramp For Women
In ?Off-Ramps and On-Ramps,? Sylvia Ann Hewlett shows why corporations, for the sake of their own bottom lines, should do more to accommodate women at the higher ranks....
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Health News

Aetna to Offer an Online Service That Helps Patients Link Records and ...
2008-03-13 04:50 - Aetna plans to provide the service, SmartSource, free to its customers, saying it wants to help people manage their own health care.

Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls
2008-03-13 04:50 - Rates are particularly high among young African-Americans, according to new federal data.

Reminder to Smokers: Your Lungs Are Aging
2008-03-12 06:01 - A simple discussion of lung capacity appears to double the rate patients follow a doctor’s advice to quit smoking.

One in Four Women in Teens Have S.T.D.’s, Study Finds
2008-03-12 06:01 - Rates are particularly high among young African-Americans, according to new federal data.

Well: An Enduring Measure of Fitness: The Simple Push-Up
2008-03-12 04:51 - As a symbol of health and wellness, nothing surpasses the simple push-up.

Really?: The Claim: Identical Twins Have Identical DNA
2008-03-12 04:51 - How true is the basic tenet of human biology that because identical twins come from the same fertilized egg, they share identical genetic profiles?

Personal Health: Some With MS Put Their Hopes in a Diet
2008-03-12 04:51 - What you are about to read is not an endorsement of any particular diet as a therapy for multiple sclerosis.

Drug Cuts Recurrence Risk in Breast Cancer Patients
2008-03-12 04:51 - Taking the breast cancer pill Femara can significantly reduce the chances that the disease will return, even long after one has stopped taking tamoxifen, researchers said.

Vital Signs: Safety: A Health Benefit to Playing by the Rules
2008-03-12 04:51 - A new study suggests that fewer injuries would occur if high school athletes were better at following the rules of the games.

Vital Signs: Nostrums: Aromatherapy Rarely Stands Up to Testing
2008-03-12 04:51 - When researchers set out to see if they could prove any of the claims about aromatherapy in the lab, most did not pan out.


 
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