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...Overall, however, interest in how best to address a viral onslaught is intense, says Mavity, noting that inquiries from businesses of all sizes about his firm's free webinars on workplace-related H1N1 topics have increased "tenfold" since the summer. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...Scotland, we were aware that the compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber would be hard for some Americans. However, the decision was reached on firm ethical principles, and we are proud to have a government that can be relied on to adhere to its own laws. We clearly don't need to take lessons on morality from the U.S. The British Labour government may have questions to answer regarding its relations with Libya, but any question of collusion with the SNP administration in Scotland is, frankly, ludicrous. Malcolm Kerr, BRODICK, SCOTLAND...
...Scotland, we were aware that the compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber would be hard for some Americans. However, the decision was reached on firm ethical principles, and we are proud to have a government that can be relied on to adhere to its own laws. We clearly don't need to take lessons on morality from the U.S. The British Labour government may have questions to answer regarding their relations with Libya, but any question of collusion with the SNP administration in Scotland is, frankly, ludicrous. Malcolm Kerr, Brodick, Scotland...
...your article "How The Taliban Thrives," you state that a local businessman, Hajji Lala Jan, was subcontracted by a local firm working for the German government--aid agency GTZ to build a road in Kunduz, in Afghanistan, and that Jan handed some cash to a Taliban middleman [Sept. 7]. We would like to point out that the project mentioned is not a GTZ project, and no one of that name has ever worked as a subcontractor for us. Neither we nor our partners make any payments to antigovernment groups. All of our projects are monitored very strictly...
...Consider the work of Marc Feldman at Developers Diversified Realty, an Ohio-based company that owns nearly 700 retail properties across the country. He and his 15-person team are charged with finding non-traditional uses for available spaces at a time when some 9% of the firm's units sit idle. Among the temporary uses they've landed on: health clinic, campaign office, auction house, county library, swap meet and soundstage for a car-commercial shoot. "It doesn't make up for the rents those retailers were paying, but it definitely provides revenue that we wouldn't otherwise have...