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...Mystery of Pain Why does the same joint problem make one person suffer terribly while another has no pain at all? There are a few clues that might solve this puzzle
After the 1991 Gulf War, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell outlined a strategy for effective military action in what is now known as the “Powell Doctrine.” He emphasized using “overwhelming force” to subdue any U.S. enemy, with “broad international support” and a “clear exit strategy.” But Rumsfeld ignored years of conventional wisdom by acting under the assumption that advances in military technology can replace a multilateral coalition of real troops and well...
...link and how NAFTA's market access is accelerating this corporation's global evolution. More than half its roughly $1 billion in sales last year went to the U.S., Canada, Japan and Australia, and 84% was auto parts. That will expand when a $136 million engine factory, a joint venture with Caterpillar, opens next year. Saltillo's building-products division, on the other hand, is 90% dependent on the domestic market. Within five years, this proportion is projected to be evenly split between domestic and foreign sales, a feat that may not prove feasible for other business units, which would...
...approach in action at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, one of six hospitals to be named this week as lead participants in a 3 1/2-year, $1.5 million joint project aimed at reducing preterm birth, sponsored by the March of Dimes and the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute...
...many Vietnamese consumers. Le To Nga, 65, lived through the Vietnam War and stood in line for ration cards in the 1980s. Today, she's happily filling her shopping cart at Big C, a vast new supermarket on Hanoi's outskirts run by France's Casino Group in a joint venture with a local company. Shopping "is not a matter of patriotism at all," Nga says. "These days, we just buy what we like." Foreign giants entering Vietnam will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy, Pincus says, and the influx of new banks will free...