Village-based Democracy Shows Returns
In the fiscal debauchery of a modern Australian election campaign, it can be hard to imagine that democracy causes governments to spend taxpayer money more wisely. But that’s because Australians have ...
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Shareholders Of Take-Two Plot A Revolt
A consortium of investors disclosed that it intended to oust the board and possibly the top management of Take-Two Interactive Software....
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Advertising: In A Battle Of Toothpastes, It’s Information Vs. Emotion
In a bid to regain the sales lead from its rival Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble has introduced Crest Pro-Health, which claims to deliver everything a consumer could possibly want in a toothpaste....
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Short Cuts: New Ways To Do It Make Giving Away Books A Bit Less Painful
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Emphasizes U.S. Role In Pakistan
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Health News

Many Children Struggling After ?05 Storms
2007-12-08 04:50 - A study says that at least 46,600 children along the Gulf Coast are still struggling with mental health problems and other serious aftereffects of hurricanes in 2005.

A Heart Stent Maker Decides the Way to the Patient Is Through the Pati...
2007-12-07 06:01 - The Cordis Corporation, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has begun the first attempt by a medical device maker to market a heart stent directly to consumers.

Teenage Birth Rate Rises for First Time Since ?91
2007-12-07 06:01 - The teenage birth rate in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, the first increase since 1991, fueling a debate about whether the Bush administration’s abstinence-only sexual education efforts are working.

Advisory Panel Rejects New Use for Cancer Drug
2007-12-07 06:01 - A federal advisory committee voted Wednesday that Genentech’s drug Avastin should not be approved as a treatment for breast cancer.

Waiting for Flights Offers Time for Flu Shots
2007-12-07 04:50 - After taking off their shoes, emptying their pockets and passing through the security checkpoint, travelers at some major American airports can now roll up a sleeve and get a flu shot.

Reactor Shutdown Causing Medical Isotope Shortage
2007-12-07 04:50 - Medical treatments are being delayed or deferred at hospitals worldwide because of the extended shutdown of a Canadian isotope reactor.

Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia
2007-12-07 04:50 - A study concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to excel in oral communication and problem solving and to own two or more businesses.

Meat Processors Look for Ways to Keep Ground Beef Safe
2007-12-07 04:50 - Even as the beef industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to keep harmful pathogens out of the meat it sells to the public, it appears to be losing ground.

Personal Best: I?m Not Really Running, I?m Not Really Running...
2007-12-07 04:50 - Using mental tricks, or dissociating, can get you to the finish line faster.

Merck’s Share Price Declines as Profit Forecasts Fall Short
2007-12-06 06:01 - The drug maker said that generic competition would drive down sales of Fosamax, an osteoporosis treatment.


 
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