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Striking one American every 45 seconds, according to the American Stroke Association, stroke takes place when a blood vessel that transports oxygen and nutrients to the brain cannot perform its function...
Whether the immunoliposomes can adequately perform a second function or not, the procedure’s impact on stroke victims may be far reaching, according...
...bank job, the Mannesmann case typifies the head-on collision between Ackermann's brash style of management and the bank's more cautious German approach. Ackermann, who is Swiss, is the first non-German to head the bank in its 133-year history. He has aimed to make it function more like an American or British financial institution, moving away from Germany's traditional reliance on consensus. The bank has switched, for example, to American accounting rules, but Ackermann's biggest cultural change was revamping the board structure. Deutsche Bank's management board traditionally viewed itself as a college...
Anti-Americanism suddenly attained a new political function as a source of unity through othering. While it still remains unclear what concrete commonality Danes and Greeks share in their daily lives—and anchors their abstract notion of being “European”—they are both very tangibly not American. The Bush Administration’s policies, especially in the war against Iraq, have helped Europeans a great deal in legitimizing this abstraction...
...national economy is shrinking by at least 15 percent a year, as it has done for six years straight. Schools lack teachers and textbooks. Hospitals hardly function, deprived of basic medicines, supplies, nurses and physicians. Most gas stations lay idle. There is no paper on which to print bank notes, and people stand in long lines trying to obtain cash from banks. Unemployment is over 80 percent, and many hundreds of thousands of farm workers are without any work whatsoever...