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State Budget Deficits Seven U.S. states still haven't solved their budget gaps...
...April, Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., former chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, left Harvard after 23 years to become director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Yale had also appointed a new chief of cardiology from Dartmouth last summer...
...Hafler, who will also become chief of neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said that in building and organizing a new and larger clinical department for Yale, he would likely be hiring many new faculty and researchers—possibly from Harvard. He said that Yale is offering attractive positions for new researchers, and that he certainly hoped he would be able to move his entire lab, which according to its Web site includes two assistant professors, four junior faculty instructors, and almost 10 post-doctoral fellows...
Chinese officials say they are on course to achieve GDP growth of about 8% this year, and the fall's dire predictions of massive unemployment leading to social upheaval haven't been borne out. But last week's killing of a steel-company executive by striking workers in northeastern China highlights the ongoing threat of labor unrest even as the country shows signs of emerging from the economic downturn...
...return Kirkuk and other disputed areas to Kurdish governance. With Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian violence largely in check, the growing Kurdish-Arab discord has become the most worrisome fault line in the country. Massoud Barzani, head of the KRG, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki haven't spoken in over a year, and KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said recently that Kurdish-Arab relations are at their lowest point since Saddam was in power...