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...mention the enormous financial penalties BAE would face if found guilty - was enough to worry some of the firm's investors. The company's stock fell more than 5% Thursday following the SFO's statement. After a checkered few years, BAE's reputation will likely fare little better. Concern for Britain's national security pushed the British government in 2006 to order a halt to a separate SFO probe into allegations that BAE paid bribes to secure business with Saudi Arabia in the mid-1980s. The inquiry into the $69 billion "Al-Yamamah" arms deals, then-Prime Minister Tony Blair...
...cited example is concern over an autism link with the [measles, mumps and rubella] vaccine," Pennington says. "In America, high uptake of the vaccine led to the eradication of measles. But in Europe, enough parents refused to let their children have the vaccine that it gave the virus a home to circulate and continue to infect people." (Take TIME's swine flu quiz...
...security measures follow concerns about book theft raised by House Master Ann Porter last week, according to Dunster tutor Jacob S. Jost, adding that the House Masters reiterated that concern at a meeting yesterday...
...given the looming specter of climate change, they may have to find a way sooner rather than later. The prospect of another typhoon this week underscores environmentalists' concern that shifts in global temperatures may mean increasingly extreme weather patterns for coastal cities like Manila. "[Ketsana] was a startling, unique event," says Herminia Francisco of the EEPSA in Singapore. "But then I think this is going to happen more and more frequently in the future." (See a TIME graphic on destructive weather...
...You’re going to have some aggressive pass interference penalties, but just penalties in general is a concern, and it will be addressed,” Crimson coach Tim Murphy said. “If you look at us traditionally, we’re a team that doesn’t beat itself. We don’t make a lot of mistakes...