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...global confectionary," London-based analysts at investment bank Jefferies International wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. A possible joint Nestlé-Hershey bid to break up Cadbury - with Pennsylvania-based Hershey taking the bulk of its chocolate business and Switzerland's Nestlé swallowing the rest along with Cadbury's gum brands - "would seem to make sense," the analysts said...
...Along with several students interested in feminism and music as a tool for social justice, many of those attending the event were personal friends of Dobkin who were involved in the folk music scene...
...proposal was rejected over concerns it would lead the public to associate the hypodermic needle - only recently introduced as an important medical tool - with death. During World War II, lethal injection was part of the Nazis' chilling arsenal of methods for disposing of sick, weak and disabled prisoners, along with the gas chamber and firing squad. After the war, death by lethal injection again faded from view; it was proposed in the U.K. in the 1950s, but was rejected by the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment because of objections from the medical community...
...Along with Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, and Boston University–the latter three of which Bloomberg News did not deem worthy of including in the headline of its article today–Harvard is releasing a set of provisions that will dictate how drugs developed on campus will be marketed...
...presence on Okinawa has been a sore spot in U.S.-Japan relations for decades because of its perceived negative social and economic effects on local communities. Okinawa is home to about two-thirds of the total 47,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan. The 2006 agreement was pushed along following a 1996 conviction of three American servicemen in a rape case involving a 12-year-old girl, and a U.S. helicopter crash in 2004 at a Ginowan university campus. Sunday's protest followed another on Saturday, when 2,000 demonstrated in the town of Kadena, near Ginowan, to oppose...