By THOMAS KAPLAN
FARMINGTON
IN his laboratory here at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Dr. David W. Rowe looked at two X-rays that appeared too good to be true. The first showed a mouse that had part of a tibia removed to simulate an injury so severe as to require amputation. In the next, the […]
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By Sebastian Mallaby
Monday, November 26, 2007
The good news on climate change is that the world wants to do something. It’s no longer just the Europeans and a few fellow travelers; a recent survey suggested that 96 percent of South Koreans and 66 percent of Ukrainians regard global warming as an important threat. The latest […]
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By Shamim Adam
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Singapore’s industrial production rose less than economists expected in October as pharmaceutical output declined for a second month.
Manufacturing, which accounts for a quarter of Singapore’s economy, gained 0.9 percent from a year earlier after a revised 2.5 percent drop in September, the Economic Development Board said […]
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By Pavel Alpeyev and Darren Boey
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Japan’s stocks gained, led by banks and real-estate developers, after the Nikkei newspaper reported a Chinese government fund may invest part of the country’s foreign-exchange holdings in Japanese shares.
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan’s biggest bank, jumped the most in more than two […]
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. on Monday promoted its assets and growth prospects as it moved to justify its earlier rejection of an all-share takeover proposal from rival BHP Billiton Ltd. — a multibillion deal that would be among the world’s largest mergers.
In a statement, Rio Tinto outlined a conceptual plan […]
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By Elizabeth Keenan
The last time Labor partied quite this hard was in 1972, when Gough Whitlam swept it back to power after 23 years in the federal sin bin. On Saturday night the Labor faithful were again in raptures as they cheered the party’s new savior, Kevin Rudd, and the end of John Howard’s long […]
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