Friday, March 25th, 2011
Health experts today confirmed that a devastating polio epidemic in west African countries is on the verge of being stopped - but warned that complacency could breathe new life into the outbreak. Since mid-2009, polio has re-infected eleven countries across west Africa, claiming many lives and leaving hundreds of ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
The thinking behind a 1988 study was that the next big one would cost the Japanese greatly in human loss but the financial pain would mostly be felt abroad, says Michael Lewis
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
With government debt already twice GDP, a recovery plan may cost another 16 trillion yen
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Saturday, February 12th, 2011
In self imposed recalls, Summer Infant Inc. has called back two baby monitor devices today. The first and more dangerous comes within a year of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), having received reports of two strangulation deaths of infants with the electrical cords of Summer Infant video ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
The World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain village of Davos takes place this week amidst astonishing reports of extensive corruption and misallocation of a significant portion of $10 billion spent since 2002 by the celebrity promoted, and internationally funded Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. ...
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