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...Delinquencies are also soaring because banks and card companies frequently fail to properly assess credit risk, offering cards to just about anyone who cares to fill out an application. Privacy laws make it difficult for companies to share credit information on individuals in South Korea. Access to information is improving, but it's still not possible to verify applicants' incomes. A Seoul cosmetics salesman (who requested anonymity) applied for most of his five cards on street corners, and he says the only check was a phone call to him at his office. He's now $42,000 in debt. "Koreans...
...conference also included several case studies and an interactive thought leadership session which utilized instant response technology to assess participant views on healthcare issues...
...workers' welfare will be checked twice. Starting with China, the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI) - representing toy makers associations from 18 countries - is implementing a code for working conditions in toy factories across the globe. To obtain a certificate of compliance, factories will have to let auditors annually assess worker health and safety. Complying with the code isn't mandatory, but moral suasion may work. "Buyers are increasingly choosy," says David Hawtin, president of the ICTI. "If you can't come up to an agreed international standard, we can't do business with you." And neither will Santa...
...intelligence wars will continue. TIME has learned that CIA Director George Tenet is hammering out a new National Intelligence Estimate on post-Saddam Iraq, which will assess the threats to national security posed by the nation now that some 135,000 US troops are stationed there. Tenet faces the dicey task of squaring findings thus far in Iraq with last year's NIE, from which a declassified October 2002 report on Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction was drawn. Among the conclusions in last year's report were that "Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons"; and "Saddam probably...
...related to lower androgens levels so we hypothesize that this may account for the relationship we’ve observed,” Giovannucci said. “We need to do more studies in which we directly measure androgens levels in men, along with BMI, and assess simultaneously their association with prostate cancer...