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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...this week's training runs, athletes have voiced their concern about the safety of the Whistler track, which is the fastest in the world; last February, a German athlete was clocked traveling more than 95 m.p.h. during a luge World Cup test event. Over the past week, about a dozen athletes have crashed during luge training here. A Romanian Olympian was briefly knocked unconscious, and the gold medal favorite, Armin Zoeggeler of Italy, survived a crash unhurt, just before Kumaritashvili...
...once antenatal depression is diagnosed, the question of whether to treat it with drugs is a difficult one. There is very little safety data on the use of the vast majority of federally approved drugs, including antidepressants, during pregnancy. Of the dozen or so prescription medications specifically approved for expectant women by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, all are pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for instance, or epidural anesthesia. That means that each year, thousands of pregnant women with common illnesses - from depression to flu or cancer - must decide whether the benefit of medications outweighs the unknown risks...
Perhaps the feeling of family that used to be felt at the firm formerly nicknamed "Mother Merrill" is the strongest at Deutsche Bank. The German financial-services firm has hired more than a dozen Merrill Lynch bankers, including brothers David, Eric and Seth Heaton. Eric Heaton used to be the treasurer of Merrill Lynch. Many of the other bankers that Deutsche hired were in Merrill's financial-institutions group, which provided underwriting and mergers-and-acquisition advice to other banks and asset-management and insurance firms...
...chair of the faculty committee, Hamburger will gather a group of two dozen faculty members, who will meet for the first time within the next couple of weeks. The membership of the group has not yet been determined, but will draw from across...
Sipprelle told us that he and Burke, who each had entered the competition in the past, determined earlier this year that they would compete for the top prize, a week-long trip to Mexico. They took about half a dozen hopefuls to Qdoba and held tryouts, selecting Pellegrini and Wood to complete their "all-star team...