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...Basque country. ETA has killed 800 people since 1968; another two dozen were killed in the mid-1980s by the shady, Spanish-government-linked death squads of GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups). By some measures, the situation has improved since then. The death rate has slowed, and since last August, when Spanish investigative judge Baltasar Garzón banned Batasuna, the permanent campaign of bus burning and political vandalism has all but evaporated. Says Juan José Ibarretxe, the president of the Basque government: "Basque society has less fear than ever." Not in Andoain. The killing there began...
Zaroulis’ guide, Tackling Your High School Term Paper, will be published in August. She found out about the “Students Helping Students” guides from her older brother, who heard of the books through the Office of Career Services at Harvard...
Zipcar CEO Robin Chase said that the discount for Harvard students is modeled on a program Zipcar launched last August...
...slid 26% last week - at one point touching a 10-year low. The reason: lawyers claimed to produce a "smoking gun" in their lawsuit against the company's American arm over the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipobay (also known as Baycol). Bayer voluntarily withdrew the drug from the market in August 2001, when it was linked to rhabdomyolysis, a muscle-destroying condition that can be fatal. But attorneys last week produced excerpts from correspondence between executives at Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline from 1997, which warned that "simple and safe no longer appears to be a viable promotional platform" for the drug...
...some employers put workers on sick leave during seasonal drops in demand. As Jiri Hofman, deputy minister of labor and social affairs, told Time: "Some companies suddenly report that almost 100% of their workers are sick. It's as if they've been hit by plague." Between August 2000 and August 2001, Germany's Betriebskrankenkasse des Landes Berlin (bkk) - a state health-insurance scheme - made unannounced home visits to workers in Berlin who had been off sick at least five times in the previous year, claiming minor ailments. Of the 65,000 people they visited, 53% were diagnosed as being...