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...unveiled plans to invest $1 billion over the next four years to boost production in China as well. "China represents a lot of thirsty individuals," says Jim Gregory, CEO of branding agency CoreBrand. "The opportunity is especially strong when the locally produced products like milk have such terrible quality-control issues. The Chinese will be flocking to American beverage brands for our quality standards alone." They should feel free to choose either one. Find out 10 things to do with your money...
Over the past two months, Paulson's public image has taken quite a beating. The former Goldman Sachs CEO entered September as the can-do dealmaker who seemed to have finally gotten the yearlong mortgage crisis under control. Now, after the expensive rescues of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG, the failure of Lehman Brothers, and the painfully dramatic struggle to get a $700 billion financial bailout bill through Congress, he is a much-diminished figure. He has zigzagged and he has waffled and he has backtracked. His decisions and his motives have been harshly questioned on Capitol Hill...
...women's health issues, from hormone therapy to heart disease, cancer and fracture risk - half were given 1,000 mg of calcium and 400s IU of vitamin D daily, while the other half were not. After seven years, 528 women in the supplement group and 546 women in the control group had developed invasive breast cancer, an equivalent rate, indicating no effect from the vitamin D. Earlier observational trials had found positive links between women's taking higher amounts of supplemental vitamin D and lower breast-cancer rates, and animal studies had also suggested that the vitamin might prevent...
Shortly after the turn of the century, though, the housing boom began to spin out of control. As incomes and employment in Ireland rose, cheap credit and tax incentives fueled a buying frenzy that pushed up both prices and housing stock: the cost of an average house rose almost three-fold in the decade through 2006, while some 40% of the country's housing was built in the last decade, according to Brian Devine, an economist at Dublin-based stockbrokers NCB. At the Grange, a swish 11-acre (4.5 ha) development in Dublin, realtors sold 15 luxury apartments a week...
...year could be over. Given the stakes, Harvard needed one of its players to step up. The squad got just that, as junior Christina Hagner carried the Crimson to the Ivy League title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Championships. In an all-or-nothing game, Hagner controlled the offensive attack from her forward position. She created opportunities for her teammates with precise balls and opened up lanes for herself with sharp turns around aggressive Columbia defenders. “I think that all our forwards have really improved in the last stretch here,” co-captain...