Music Review: Broadway Encounters Jazz Not Far From The Actors Studio
Betty Buckley, who is appearing at Feinstein’s through Feb. 24 with a five-member band, epitomizes the singer as Method actor....
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Porsche Raises Stake In VW, Forcing A Takeover Offer
The German sports-car maker Porsche plans to lift its existing stake in Volkswagen to 31 percent....
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Global’s Charles Allen Slates GCap Shake-up
Charles Allen, the chairman of Global Radio, has criticised the new strategy for GCap Media announced by its new chief executive Fru Hazlitt....
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Pension Fund Shortages Create Hard Choices
Almost half of the states may have to choose in the years ahead between their pension obligations and other public programs....
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Equity Firms Set To Gain Harrah’s With Offer Of $16.6bn
Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group, two private equity firms, are poised to win the auction for Harrah’s Entertainment, with an offer of about $16.6 billion (£8.5 billion).......
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Health News

Agency Approves Drug to Treat Genetic Disorder That Can Lead to Retard...
2007-12-15 04:50 - The drug, called Kuvan, is intended to help people who have phenylketonuria, or PKU, which requires those who have it to adhere to a strict low-protein diet.

Small Businesses Oppose Mandates for Health Plans
2007-12-14 06:01 - The small business lobbying group that had a big part in derailing Hillary Clinton’s effort to overhaul health care in the early 1990s has staked out its position for the 2008 political season.

Canada Acts to Reopen Reactor Producing Medical Isotope
2007-12-14 06:01 - The Canadian government is rushing through legislation to reopen a nuclear reactor that produces most of the world’s supply of a medically important diagnostic isotope.

Officials See No Public Health Threat in Shortage of a Meningitis Vacc...
2007-12-14 04:50 - A developing shortage of vaccine against childhood meningitis is expected to inconvenience some pediatricians and parents, but should not become a public health threat, officials said.

Fitness: Get Them Hooked and They?ll Reel Themselves In
2007-12-14 04:50 - Johnny Goldberg, widely known as Johnny G, the creator of Spinning, is now trying to grab more attention with the Krankcycle.

Many Paths but One Goal
2007-12-14 04:50 - Just as varieties of yoga exist, so do styles of facial acupuncture, each with a different emphasis.

Skin Deep: Hold the Chemicals, Bring on the Needles
2007-12-14 04:50 - More and more women are using facial acupuncture instead of Botox to attack wrinkles.

Patients Wonder Whether to Replace a Wire That Might Fail
2007-12-14 04:50 - Thousands of patients with failing hearts must decide whether to heed a warning from Medtronic and replace a defibrillator in their chest that has a potentially faulty wire.

Mayo Clinic Study Links Anemia Drugs to Leukemia Risk
2007-12-13 06:01 - Anemia drugs from Amgen and Johnson & Johnson may raise the risk that patients with a bone marrow disease will later develop leukemia.

Trial of Cholesterol Drug Gets House Scrutiny
2007-12-13 04:50 - A Congressional committee is investigating Merck and Schering-Plough for their handling of a critical clinical trial of Zetia, their blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug.


 
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