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...clinicians listed in the book both practice medicine and conduct research, Hallie Baron, an institute spokesperson said...
...recognition is a tremendous boost of credibility and it validates the excellence at the Institute," Baron added...
...Robert Maxwell case was stranger than most tabloid tales. The Czechoslovak-born press baron had created an empire financed largely through illusion, yet his holdings included the London Daily Mirror, New York City's Daily News and Macmillan, the U.S. book publisher. In assembling his web of 400 companies, Maxwell piled up debts, apparently without unduly alarming the dozens of banks and other lenders that let him borrow a sum now estimated at $7 billion...
Maxwell was deep in hock and struggling to keep his conglomerate afloat in the months before his death. The Czechoslovak-born press baron, who embraced socialism in the 1960s as a Member of Parliament, had run up $4.5 billion in debts to buy everything from American book publishers to British soccer teams to Israeli and German newspapers. But even before Maxwell was interred, reports of financial skulduggery in his shop began to surface. First came the startling revelation that the company was broke. Then came the discovery that Maxwell had pledged the same assets as collateral for various loans...
...post-Civil War boom, Mark Twain's child-man reveals his real name. Arrested in a stock swindle, the rising robber baron escapes from jail with the aid of Jim, nonstop talker and former slave, who has shrewdly invested in ^ Thomas Edison's recording machine and become the founding grandfather...