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...just the latest sale for Citi, which has been paring back its businesses for well over a year. Earlier this year, the bank sold its Salomon Smith Barney brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley. Also gone are Citi's Diners Club credit-card business, its Japanese brokerage operations, a technology-services unit and some of its overseas divisions...
...Barker first proposed his theory of fetal origins in 1992, arguing that when the fetus doesn't get enough nutrition in utero, for example, an increased risk of future heart disease and diabetes somehow gets "programmed" into his or her development. There wasn't very much data to back Barker's theory at the time, but over the decades, a wealth of animal and human data has suggested it's true. Maternal conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes and behaviors like smoking and drinking have all been identified as factors that can harm the fetus. Each risk factor...
...civil rights activist. While Germany has its own racial and immigration problems with sporadic outbreaks of violence, they are nowhere near the magnitude of those in the U.S. The "wounds" seem to me to be healing much faster than you claim. The world must get off Germany's back once and for all. Xavier Chiampi, ASCHAFFENBURG, GERMANY...
...include tanks, soldiers on parade, fireworks and a display of 40 million potted plants. But some things aren't happening: pigeons have been grounded in the capital out of fear they'd endanger jet flyovers, one city has banned divorces, and China Mobile customers aren't keeping their ring-back tones--the government-run carrier has switched them to a patriotic song...
...reunion is a distinctly HBO version of Seinfeld - very show-biz-insidery, and much more R-rated than the original ever could have been on NBC. Which shows that, while Seinfeld's glory days may never come back, funny is still funny, and successors like Curb have found ways to become more uncompromising and uncensored. And there's not, to paraphrase the masters, anything wrong with that...