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...giant monument's birth being greeted with this distinctly un-Buddhist-like anti-p.r. campaign? Local reporters, who obtained access to internal provincial documents, say the statue was built with the approval of Li Changchun, who was Henan's Communist Party secretary in the 1990s before taking up his present post in 2003 as the Party's national propaganda chief. Li presided over Henan precisely when the local government was turning a blind eye to peasants contracting HIV by selling their blood, which was collected with tainted equipment. When the scandal was exposed four years ago, Li may have...
...make ketchup; we don't make politics." JACK SMYTH, senior vice president at American condiment giant Heinz, denying any involvement in the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry. Kerry's wife, Teresa, is the widow of Senator H. John Heinz III, great-grandson of the company's founder...
...Street behind Tommy’s House of Pizza and Tommy’s Value. The pastel yellow background and the spontaneous strokes of paint that border the brick wall add a note of whimsy to the sweeping proclamation. The big block font looks like someone took a giant rubber stamp and, while passing by the industrial-sized trashcans one day, decided to label the walls behind them with a self-esteem booster...
...passersby on Bow Street, the murals have become as much a part of the urban landscape as the Tommy’s stores. But they are unfinished—the train emanating from the giant washing machine in one of the panels is empty. The white tiles in another panel are left blank...
...companies get a grip on rising health-care costs? General Motors spent $4.5 billion on care for its 1.2 million U.S. employees and retirees last year. That's more than the car giant made in profits. DaimlerChrysler pays out about $1,300 in employee health benefits for the typical vehicle it makes. Across the U.S., 2004 is likely to be the fifth consecutive year of double-digit increases in total corporate health-care costs...