Cyclist Lance Armstrong visiting the NIH If you were Lance Armstrong, or his coach or manager, would you have done what he did? Would you have hit the pharmacopeia to make sure you stayed on top in your highly competitive game, especially when people with less talent and a weaker ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — As most consumers adjust to paying more for the things they buy every day, lower prices are a welcome surprise. Despite surging costs on raw materials that have forced many brands to raise their prices, a few small firms are announcing price reductions on their products ...
MOSCOW — The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that the prosecution of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former billionaire Russian oil tycoon who was jailed after clashing with the Kremlin, was not politically motivated. The ruling appeared to be a setback for Mr. Khodorkovsky and his supporters, who ...
Last week, the FBI trumpeted the news that violent crime dropped 5.5 percent in 2010 while reported property crimes fell 2.8 percent during the depths of the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. The news, though, is far from positive. Though most regions of the U.S. saw declines, the ...
By Patrick Rizzo, msnbc.com Senior Editor The Great Recession has sometimes been called the “Mancession” for the huge numbers of men who lost their jobs during the economic downturn. That goes double for veterans, especially male veterans, who left the military since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a new ...
PROFOUNDLY blind people in Britain and Europe will be able to purchase the first bionic eye. The revolutionary technology has been approved for sale after being approved by European regulators. The Argus II retinal prosthesis is an implanted device that works by converting video images captured from a miniature camera, ...
Courage came to our small town last night. It arrived at the high school football stadium and it couldn’t have weighed 90 pounds. Living in a small town suits me perfectly. Although I am not zealously religious, I do like the fact that public events in our little corner of ...
DORDRECHT, the Netherlands — If Noah had run into the modern nanny state, or nimby, or a few of the other obstacles that Johan Huibers has been facing, the animal kingdom might look a lot different today. Mr. Huibers, 60, the successful owner of a big construction company, has spent ...
THE chief executive of one of the best-performing companies on the ASX over the past year says it is considering basing its manufacturing facilities in Asia because of a lack of support from the federal government. Silviu Itescu, chief executive of Melbourne-based stem cell specialist Mesoblast, said the company had ...
Energy May. 282011 – 2:21 pm | 4,165 views | 0 recommendations| Men who consumed six or more cups per day had a lower adjusted relative risk for overall prostate cancer compared with nondrinkers.
NIZHNY TAIGIL, Russia — Like a scene from a felon’s daydream, all the inmates at a prison compound here in western Russia — some 2,000 of them — are former policemen, prosecutors, tax inspectors, customs agents and judges. Most of the day, they mill about, glum-faced, dressed in prison clothes. ...
Over the past few years, the H-1B visa has come to symbolize several things: Economic growth, the state of Indian IT companies, the great off shoring debate and even election manifestos in the U.S. But, above all, it has been symbolic of the great American Dream. It has been the ...
Fiat is buying shares of Chrysler owned by the government. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Fiat will buy the remaining shares of Chrysler Group stock now held by the U.S. government, wrapping up the automaker’s 2009 bailout, a Treasury Department official confirmed Friday. Fiat had the option to buy the government-held ...
WARSAW — In this big and proud Central European country, whose inhabitants in the past sought refuge or economic opportunities in the United States, the view from the street is changing. Along the sidewalks of Warsaw on Friday, as Poland prepared for a 24-hour visit by President Barack Obama, that ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.’s ambitious plan to supplant credit cards with smartphones has thrust the Internet search leader into a legal tussle with online payment pioneer PayPal, which contends Google stole its ideas by hiring away two key executives. PayPal painted a picture of betrayal and corporate espionage in a ...
NEW YORK — There’s less money this summer for hotel rooms, surfboards and bathing suits. It’s all going into the gas tank. High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the family budget as the traditional summer driving season begins. For every $10 the typical household earns before taxes, ...
COCHLEAR, the world’s largest maker of bionic ears, says it is hurting from a strong Australian dollar and hedging cannot always ease the pain, suggesting it may take another currency-related hit to its profits. Cochlear is among Australian manufacturers suffering when they translate money made overseas back into the stronger ...
