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Frank Portman had to grow up. The punk pop band he founded in the '80s--the Mr. T Experience--had the kind of long-term niche success that leads to self-doubt and massive credit-card debt. Plus, the band had fallen apart. Portman, 42, was on the verge of becoming that old guy working at a record store. And record stores don't much exist anymore...
None of this has gone un-detected by investors. While Nissan boasts a market capitalization of about $53 billion--more than triple that of General Motors--the stock has fallen well behind shares of Japanese rivals Toyota and Honda in the past two years. And some of the air has come out of the chief's reputation. "Ghosn's strategy has been all about cost cutting," says Koji Endo, an analyst with Credit Suisse in Tokyo. "He needs to prove that he can bring real growth to the company's top line. We've yet to see that...
...survey of nearly 14,000 adolescents by the Harvard School of Public Health. Nearly three-fourths of adolescents who broke their vow denied ever pledging to remain abstinent. But progress is still being made. Last week the CDC reported that the teenage birthrate in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded...
Still, there is reason for hope. The mortality rate for children with AIDS at Baylor's pediatric clinic in Botswana has fallen from nearly 5% in 2003 to 0.3% this year. Other groups are scaling up. More than 1,400 children are receiving antiretroviral therapy in Rwanda--up from 354 in 2004--and more than a third of pregnant women are getting treatment to preserve their lives and reduce the risk of delivering an HIV-positive infant, according to UNICEF. There will always be more to do, but at long last the work has begun...
...from executed prisoners." HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft had fallen silent after nearly 10 years of beaming data on the planet back to Earth-more than double its expected life "I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project." RUPERT MURDOCH, News Corp. CEO, announcing the cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson...