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...fourth quarter of 2008 good to Chrysler? Since Thanksgiving it has had to cut more than 5,000 salaried jobs and close an assembly plant; it staggered through December with a 53% drop in sales. But the season was not without good tidings: Chrysler got $4 billion in federal bridge loans and its finance company is awaiting approval of another $1 billion to $2 billion from the U.S. Treasury. "Chrysler Financial is optimistic it will receive the necessary support from the Treasury," says spokeswoman Amber Gowen...
...course, today's news doesn't mean that Jobs's cancer has necessarily reappeared. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2004, the Apple co-founder had reportedly undergone a Whipple Procedure, a surgery that removed a tumor from his pancreas, and cut into his gallbladder, stomach, bile duct and small intestine. Some patients who have had the surgery live in constant pain and have difficulty digesting food and absorbing calories. In other words, Jobs could simply be suffering from the long-term effects of the surgery, and not a recurrence of his cancer...
...need surgery, the right words used in the operating room can be more powerful than many drugs. New research published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found that when surgical teams heeded a simple checklist - as pilots do before takeoff - patient-mortality rates were cut nearly in half and complications fell by more than a third...
...Paterson, facing a $15 billion budget shortfall, wants to cut 55% of state funding to institutions like the Bronx Zoo in 2009 and 100% of state funding in 2010. According to Calvelli, state dollars make up a small percentage of institution budgets - less than 10% in the case of the Bronx Zoo - but any cuts will only add to anticipated reductions in endowments and other public funding. If the state pulls financing, Calvelli says, service and program cuts as well as (human) layoffs are possible...
...full stomach. “It was nice to see behind the scenes,” she said. Dingman’s comfortable accommodations allowed for some hands-on assistance from a few courageous volunteers. The chefs demonstrated the “claw method” used to cut onions, which entails using the knuckle to protect the fingers and support the knife. McDowell said that she would not soon forget “getting scolded for my onion cutting.” She added, “I did not like the claw method...