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...back in--and got pregnant by natural means four months later. The breakthrough raises hope for the thousands of women who face sterilization each year from cancer treatments. If the procedure proves safe enough--a big if--it might also offer an option to healthy women who want to extend their fertile years a little longer...
...strike ballot, and after several months of negotiations, the bank agreed to redeploy people in other jobs where possible. Those laid off when the call center closes next month will get a $3,600 payment toward retraining. It's a model that the union would like to extend across financial service firms in Britain. "Our priority is to avoid compulsory redundancies," says Rob O'Neill, the union's chief negotiator with HSBC, which has announced plans to cut 7,500 jobs in Britain at the same time as moving 4,000 of them to Asia. O'Neill's union...
...asked about the way in which the search for Osama bin Laden was conducted. For example, why did many Afghans give little credit to President George W. Bush’s offer of a $25 million reward? Did, as many Afghans believed, the United States allow the conflict to extend in order to secure plans for an oil pipeline...
With 1 in 6 Americans uninsured, you might expect the presidential candidates to avidly court this large constituency. Not so. Bush and Kerry have plans out to extend medical coverage to some uninsured, but they were pitching their health plans last week to seniors and middle-class voters, who are upset about rising health-care costs. In Michigan, Bush went on the attack, calling Kerry's plan a "government takeover," while in Albuquerque, N.M., Kerry said Bush had spent four years as President with "no real plan" to deal with America's health-care problems...
...innovation: small businesses and their employees would receive tax credits to cover as much as 50% of the premiums for low- and moderate-income workers. The government would also pay 75% of employers' costs for catastrophic health care, removing a huge expense and trimming employees' family premiums. Hoping to extend coverage to 27 million uninsured, Kerry would also offer tax credits for individuals and expand existing programs for low-income people...