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...Levangs then began to hear alarming stories from other residents' families. Tina Sowells' grandmother Freda Trimble, then 89, had to be hospitalized after an anxiety attack because for several days she hadn't been given her necessary dose of Xanax. Fran Firth complained that her mother, Grace, then 74, had been left lying in her feces for several hours until her skin peeled; the company says her diaper was changed regularly. "We could not have been more disappointed," says Bonnie Levang...
...That bit of dot-com nostalgia, however, pales in comparison to last week?s dose, in which JDS Uniphase, highest-flying of the tech-infrastructure high-flyers, reported that it had lost about $50 billion in Q2. As the NYT editorial page was stirred to note Sunday, that "may be the biggest loss in corporate history...
...Here's the idea: the new company, China Broadcast Satellite Transmission Co., will receive all foreign and domestic satellite feeds at a special government facility in Beijing. It will encrypt the signals, uplink them to a satellite and beam them down to the public. The objective is a double dose of control: the state will be the monopoly provider of satellite television broadcasting on the mainland, and foreign networks will have to pay to get their signals into China. In addition, authorities will be able to censor foreign satellite broadcasts with a simple push of a button...
...seem like ten lifetimes? Have they ever made copies for the third day in a row? Certainly, they have never ground mouse chow. With most internships consisting of nothing more than glorified grunt work, it seems hard to believe that any internship could really give a dose of wonderful career...
Think of the global economy as you might think of yourself starting to feel sick. You wake up one day with a bad cold--that was last winter. It turns into a nasty dose of flu that, with a few pills and lots of honey and lemon, you think you'll get over soon. That was the spring. But now your aches and pains are beginning to feel like something worse; pneumonia, maybe? That's where we are this summer...