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...profit company that operates a health-care insurance subsidiary, and 10% commercial-services exporter running emergency rooms in the Middle East and transplant and cancer programs in Europe. It looks to companies such as Siemens and General Electric as role models, since both do basic research but have to develop profitable products. UPMC has formed a joint partnership with GE, called Omnyx, to develop an information-technology-based digital pathology business. Each company is investing $20 million...
...from the threat of rape to sexual harassment by party officials, sexual enslavement to gang rape, and to forced nudity which Higonnet called a staple of detention facilities. Higonnet said the data depict the culture of misogyny and terror that prevailed during Hussein’s “development of a professional class of torturers in a systematic, pyramidally structured society.” The goal of this sexual violence was to suppress dissension through targeting culturally sensitive ideas of honor and respect. After the 2003 U.S. invasion, Higonnet said she believes sexual violence has become less patterned...
...fears that the fallout from the U.S. subprime mess might cripple reform of China's financial system - now only partly open to the world - may be overwrought. Earlier this week Beijing sent a clear signal that, notwithstanding the mess in the U.S. and Europe, it still seeks to develop, slowly but surely, a more sophisticated capital market. China's State Council has approved a plan to allow margin trading and short-selling, giving domestic investors in China's A-share market "new opportunities to hedge and leverage their positions," says Jing Ulrich, head of China Equities at JPMorgan Securities...
...industry's hottest contest is to develop a mass-market electric vehicle, and the Paris show has 19 of them on display. Most are versions of the same system: well-insulated cars with electric batteries that plug into regular outlets at home or at charging stations on the street, a little like filling the tank. Batteries would recharge in a few hours (about six hours in the 110-volt U.S. or about half that time in 220-volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars...
...mucosal tissues. Such furiously multiplying viruses may actually benefit vaccine effectiveness in flu seasons like those included in the study, when there is significant mismatch - or "drift" - between the circulating flu strains and the vaccine strains, because the faster the viruses divide, the more likely they are to develop more mutations, some of which may actually end up matching those circulating in the community...