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...major Harvard teaching hospitals announced Friday that they have adopted an extensive conflict of interest policy, culminating a two-year assessment of hospital ties to the pharmaceutical industry. After over a year of controversy, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital will now prohibit doctors from receiving gifts from pharmaceutical companies. The Partners Commission on Interactions with Industry policy will also require physicians to report their relationships with drug companies to patients. Further, executives of Partners HealthCare—the company that owns the two hospitals—will face strict limitations on their involvement with...
...Scores of people were injured and two were killed in two separate incidents on Monday. During the first pre-dawn flare-up, the government said the antigovernment crowds - known as the Red Shirts for their crimson-colored clothing - had provoked the conflict by lobbing Molotov cocktails at troops. The government claimed that 23 soldiers were wounded by the protesters; for their part, the antigovernment forces countered that the soldiers had fired at them and that six of their own had been killed by army bullets - a charge the military denies. (See pictures of the 2008 protests in Bangkok...
...near Bangkok, forcing some world leaders to evacuate the premises by helicopter. The conference was hastily canceled. "Even if [the government] manages to end the protest, it will not be the end," said Kraisak Choonhavan, a prominent member of the ruling Democrat Party. "The divisions are too deep ... This conflict is going to go on for a long time...
...hued mob wielding sticks and bars. Earlier in the day, one Red Shirt leader, Jatuporn Prompan, had called on his fellow protesters to attack Abhisit in order to hasten the government's ouster. That evening, Thaksin - who is in self-imposed exile presumably because of a two-year conflict-of-interest jail sentence by a Thai court - added fuel to the fire by saying the time might be right for a "revolution." (Read a TIME Q&A with Thaksin...
...shipping containers - in temperature and humidity controlled conditions as part of the long-established Afloat Prepositioning Force, a strategy for storing the tools of war, known as "prepo." The ship will simply sit at anchor in the atoll's blue lagoon and wait, in case there is a major conflict in the area requiring U.S. involvement. This particular project, not the first prepo at Diego Garcia, is scheduled to begin in November and last for five years. Born in the Cold War, prepo proved so successful in speedy delivery of assets during the first Gulf War and again...