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...large, longitudinal study, conducted in nearly 500 villages in the rural Osmanabad district of central India, analyzed the effectiveness of three methods of screening, including the standard pap smear and the newer test for human papillomavirus, or HPV, whose sexually transmitted high-risk strains are known to cause cervical cancer. (Read "Cancer and Insurance: Who Do You Call...
...more than 20 employees. In Beijing, state-owned enterprises have been ordered not to lay off any of their employees this year. The government is also looking to make positive examples of private businesses that keep on staff. That's why Liu Jingyu, a local entrepreneur in a suburban district of Beijing called Daxing, was recently handed the keys to an expensive Audi A8L; he'd created more than 1,600 jobs at his company, most of them for local Daxing citizens. Jingyu is promising not to cut either jobs or salaries, to take on more employees...
...Santos, a district manager at the ACC, said that his company was not involved in the protests, which he said were organized by the union members only. He said the nine people laid off averaged 20 hours of work per week for Harvard...
...changes for years. "Now they are going to bring equity to the system," he says. However, some prosecutors believe the 2004 reforms were enough and no further reforms are needed. "There is no question you'll get more second and third time offenders," says Michael C. Green, Monroe County District Attorney. "The option is being taken away to potentially jail an offender who has committed prior violent felonies." Green cited statistics that showed the state's drug incarceration rate dropping to about 11,000 last year as a result of the 2004 reforms and says it's even a misnomer...
Situated in Berlin's elegant mitte district, the Hotel de Rome channels history. It was built in 1889, and its ornate stone edifice originally housed the headquarters of Germany's Dresdner Bank and, following World War II, the state bank of communist East Germany (D.D.R.). Although the austere D.D.R. officials resented the building's opulence, they couldn't afford its demolition and instead boarded over its mosaic stone floors and ornate molding, inadvertently preserving them for today's luxury traveler...