By EDWARD WYATT : LOS ANGELES — The J. Paul Getty Museum announced Tuesday that it had acquired “Arii Matamoe,” an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin that has been in a private collection in Switzerland for decades and has been exhibited publicly only once since 1946.
The museum would not identify the seller or say how […]
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By STEPHEN CASTLE : BRUSSELS — European regulators on Tuesday approved Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, a significant player in the $37 billion online advertising business, brushing aside complaints that the combination would allow Google to extend its Internet dominance.
Shortly after, Google announced that it had closed the $3.1 billion acquisition and said the integration of […]
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN : The first national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, federal health officials reported Tuesday.
Nearly half the African-Americans in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected with […]
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Cases Without Borders
Psychotherapy for All: An Experiment
By DAVID KOHN : SIOLIM, India — At the faded one-story medical clinic in this fishing and farming village, people with depression and anxiety typically got little or no attention. Busy doctors and nurses focused on physical ailments — children with diarrhea, laborers […]
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Essay By SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D. : I recently took care of a 50-year-old man who had been admitted to the hospital short of breath. During his monthlong stay he was seen by a hematologist, an endocrinologist, a kidney specialist, a podiatrist, two cardiologists, a cardiac electrophysiologist, an infectious-diseases specialist, a pulmonologist, […]
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ : KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The shuttle Endeavour blazed a roaring trail into orbit as a spectacular night launch kicked off a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.The shuttle was launched at the conclusion of a countdown that seemed touched by good fortune: nearly perfect weather and none of the […]
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