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China's tendency to overprescribe antibiotics can be traced back to its traditional medical beliefs. "According to Chinese medicine, every single illness has a remedy," says Dr. Lam Tai-pong, an assistant dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. That means Chinese patients are more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much of a Good Thing | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

Net Returns Is there no end to investors' renewed love affair with the Internet? Shares in eBay leapt 14% after the online marketer last week cheered a 53% leap in second-quarter profit. After its own fourfold rise in quarterly earnings, Google's shares lingered around $300 - a long way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

First the newly public DreamWorks Animation appears to have mishandled first-quarter earnings information. In May its shares fell 5% just before the company disclosed disappointing results. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether there was any insider trading, and six shareholder lawsuits stemming from the stock drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Moguls Aboard | 7/19/2005 | See Source »

Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, an Italian-born business analyst, was among thousands of commuters on the way to work on July 7 as suicide bombers blew themselves up on three London Underground trains and a bus. Her friends and relatives have not heard from her since, and she was not among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hardest Count | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

After the invasion, the Kuwaiti government had originally sought funding from the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)—a subsidiary of the UN Security Council set up to resolve claims against Iraq—to help make up for the costs of excess hospitalizations and deaths during the...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kuwaiti Health Hurt by Invasion | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

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