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...that, but coming to his own defense, the Governor made clear it hadn't been his favored remedy. And here, he said, he was let down by the law. His preference for giving Northern Rock covert help - only letting the public in on the move when the crisis had blown over - ran up against E.U. rules outlawing such action, King said. And any thoughts of a speedy takeover at the hands of another lender were also undermined by Britain's takeover regulations, King added...
...million in August for price fixing. Ten current and former BA executives face the possibility of criminal prosecution in the U.S. All this comes just as access to the transatlantic market out of Heathrow Airport--now restricted to BA and a few other carriers--is about to be blown wide open...
...Stevenson's team is looking at how genetic differences may explain the range of sensitivity. One of his colleagues believes that the additives may trigger a release of histamines in sensitive kids. In general, the effects of the chemicals are not so great as to cause full-blown attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Still, the paper warns that "these adverse effects could affect the child's ability to benefit from the experience of school...
...reminiscing, as most of her colleagues did, about time spent on the ground in Iraq with General David Petraeus, but it was not a recent visit. It was back in 2005, when Petraeus was in charge of training the new Iraqi army. An aide pulled out a blown-up photograph of the Senator and the general. "You were so upbeat, General," Boxer said. "You said, 'You're about to see some terrific troops.'" There were 100,000 of them "ready to go ... You were as optimistic as anyone I've seen on the planet ... and I believed you!" The stage...
...infants were about 6 1/2 years old, researchers followed up with standard questionnaires about asthma, hay fever and eczema. Rates of each condition were similar in both groups. In general, about 10% of the children had ever suffered wheezing in their lives, though less than 1.5% had had full-blown asthma. Roughly 3% to 5% had had hay fever, and about 1% had suffered bouts of eczema. Researchers also performed skin-prick tests on the children; again, there was no significant difference between incidence of allergy - to dust mites, cats, pollen, grass and Alternaria, a common fungus - between the groups...