By DAVID BARBOZA
GUANGZHOU, China — Nearly a decade after some of the most powerful companies in the world — often under considerable criticism and consumer pressure — began an effort to eliminate sweatshop labor conditions in Asia, worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to […]
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By BENEDICT CAREY
The drugs most widely used to manage aggressive outbursts in intellectually disabled people are no more effective than placebos for most patients and may be less so, researchers report.
The finding, being published Friday, sharply challenges standard medical practice in mental health clinics and nursing homes in the United States and around the […]
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By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes who, the administration argues, may have access to private health insurance.
The restrictions mirror those the administration placed on the State […]
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By CORNELIA DEAN
In 1984 and again in 1999, the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s most eminent scientific organization, produced books on the evidence supporting the theory of evolution and arguing against the introduction of creationism or other religious alternatives in public school science classes.
On Thursday, it produced a third. But this volume is […]
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National Briefing | Health and Science
By WARREN E. LEARY
The next effort to launch the space shuttle Atlantis could come as early as Jan. 24, but will probably slip into February as engineers test and repair a suspect fuel sensor connector, a NASA official said. The official, John Shannon, deputy space shuttle program […]
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World Business Briefing | Asia
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
China will allow only state-run Web sites to broadcast video or radio through the Internet, tightening the government’s regulatory grip over the media content offered there. Starting Jan. 31, Internet broadcasting license applicants must be government-run entities, China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Dec. […]
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