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...much for the major conclusions. Now for the caveats and complications. The WHI study looked at the most popular brand of estrogen and progestin, which is called Prempro and is made by Wyeth. Technically speaking, the WHI findings do not apply to other products. Some doctors have speculated that lower-dose hormones or estrogen-progestin patches and creams might somehow avoid some of the risks associated with Prempro. That has yet to be proved. Even so-called natural hormones (those derived from plants) aren't necessarily risk free. For one thing, they haven't been as carefully tested as Prempro...
...they are increasingly committing what is known in Japan as naibu kokuhatsu (exposure from within). This year, an employee of Snow Brand Foods alerted authorities to the company's deliberate mislabeling of foreign beef as a domestic product, a scandal that put the corporation out of business. Last month, an anonymous letter, apparently from an insider at Tokyo Women's Medical College to the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died during heart surgery, alleged that fatal errors were made during the operation. Two doctors were subsequently arrested for trying to cover up their mistakes by altering medical...
...branches. "They will need some sort of face-to-face offering," says Alex Boorman, a financial-services analyst at the research firm Datamonitor. "Not everyone wants to bank online." Although the four British banks are called pure plays, they have good family connections. Three of them were created by brand-name institutions, though they maintain entirely separate operations: Smile is owned by Co-operative Bank, Intelligent Finance is part of HBOS and Cahoot is owned by Abbey National. Egg is a child of insurance giant Prudential. Some of these may soon find themselves operating desks within their parents' branches. Says...
...wanted to take back control of Vivendi's American entertainment assets, as some have speculated, major shareholders would probably oppose it. Edgar has other things to keep him busy, anyway. He has taken a 40% stake in British jeweler Asprey & Garrard, hoping to expand the luxury-goods brand to shoes and other fashion accessories. His family members must surely hope they will still be able to afford to dress that...
...popular pilgrimage for South Korean tour groups eager to take in the rich heritage of their national past. They're easy to recognize by their name-brand sneakers and identical baseball caps. Guesthouses along the Yalu are routinely booked up, and Korean restaurants are rowdy late into the night, the soju (a traditional Korean liquor) flowing like the Yalu. The South Koreans come too, to get a rare glimpse of the forlorn North. To do that myself, I hired a moped-and-rickshaw hybrid for a tour of the sites, culminating with a trip out to the Chinese border post...