Word: andreasen
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...last week; as the new King of Cambodia; in the capital, Phnom Penh. The Prince, considered to be largely apolitical, returns to the royal palace after living abroad for a large part of his life, mostly in Paris, where he danced for some of the leading conservatories. FIRED MARTA ANDREASEN, 49, the European Commission's chief accountant; for going public with allegations that the European Union's €100 million annual budget was vulnerable to fraud and abuse; in Brussels. She was hired in 2002 to clean up the E.U.'s accounting procedures but was suspended for disloyalty and breach...
...scanning methods. Some capture the size and shape of brain structures; others freeze-frame the ever shifting activity of nerve cells as they fire and subside. With this information, doctors are beginning to understand--at the level of the neuron--how mental illnesses occur. "Brain imaging," says Dr. Nancy Andreasen, a leading schizophrenia researcher at the University of Iowa and the MIND Institute in Albuquerque, N.M., "has changed the face of psychiatry...
...most recent fusillade came from the U.K., where a former Commission employee went public with a series of allegations about accounting mismanagement and a "cover-up'' to hide the problems. Marta Andreasen, 48, a professional accountant hired in January to modernize controls over the j98 billion E.U. budget, insisted she was forced to sign off on expenditures that could not be confirmed. "Unlike the issues surrounding Enron and WorldCom, where you can at least trace transactions and accounts, you cannot do so within the E.U. accounts as there is no system in place for tracing adjustments and changes to figures...