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...Well, maybe. But even if that's true, a bafflingly large number of businesses are missing the boat. Despite the growing demand for drug tests in sports and other fields, the percentage of employers with testing programs has dropped steadily since 1996, from 81% to 62% in 2004, according to the American Management Association, which sees the trend continuing...
...York City's financial district in March -- but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says he is discovering a new line of business in pods for office use. As he scouted for franchises, he kept getting requests for individual pods that companies could use on-site. To meet the demand, MetroNaps redesigned the pods to fit through doorways and will take orders from July for the new office models...
...media over preemptive military strikes to knock out the test missile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called for the issue to be discussed by the six-party forum that has since 2002 been negotiating over North Korea's nuclear program. That essentially amounts to a demand that North Korea return to the negotiating table, from which it walked away last November in a dispute over what had been agreed. Plainly, diplomacy remains the only game in to town...
...France and Italy are also majority state owned, and their chief executives are picked by the government. And regardless of any reluctance, many European countries have signed gas contracts with the Russians that cover them until about 2015. It's what happens thereafter that is unclear. European energy demand is expected to continue to rise apace, while Russia, for its part, needs Western capital if it is to continue raising its oil and gas production levels - the iea anticipates investments of more than $300 billion between today and 2030 for gas alone. Certainly, Western business remains upbeat about Russia. Britain...
...Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas supremo in Damascus (see box). Two days into the Gaza incursion, Olmert ordered Israeli forces to halt their advance to allow for a mediation push by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. On Friday, Mubarak claimed that Hamas had agreed to release Shalit, but Shalit's captors demanded the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, which Israel refused. Haniya's spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, told TIME that was the militants' demand, not the government's. "We want to avoid further escalation and end this problem very quickly." But the Israeli intelligence officer says even if a deal were brokered...