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...publications. Nor can outside media giants buy their way in. There's a 26% cap on overseas ownership of newspapers and TV news channels. The recent changes aren't enough, say some of the key players who had hoped for an opening. Last year, for example, the Wall Street Journal announced with fanfare that it would launch an Indian edition with a local partner. The publication has yet to hit the newsstands. "We certainly hope to publish in India," says Suman Dubey, chief representative in India for the WSJ's owner Dow Jones & Co, "but only if our product...
...million Number of children in the U.S. living in homes with loaded and unlocked guns, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics...
Despite all appearances to the contrary, New Orleans had a plan. A week after the storm, Nagin summarized it for the Wall Street Journal: "Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them--that was the plan, man." But in fact, the plan was more substantial. And it makes clear that the mayor was in charge when disaster struck. Nagin, a former executive with Cox Communications who was elected three years ago on the promise that he would purge the city of corruption, was supposed to prepare New Orleans for a hurricane...
...Orleans' $7 million grant in 2003 for a communications system that would connect all the region's first responders. Soon after the hurricane struck, the radios used by police, fire fighters and Nagin drained their batteries. Then their satellite phones would not recharge, according to the Wall Street Journal. And, of course, land-line and cell phones went out. For two days, the mayor and his emergency team were cut off--holed up in the Hyatt Regency, fending off gangs of looters. We don't know why the mayor and his emergency team did not use the city's Mobile...
Among the lesser known dangers of cigarette smoking is eye disease, say British researchers writing in the journal Eye. Data suggest that smoking doubles your risk of age-related macular degeneration, a common cause of severe and irreversible vision loss. Reduce that risk by quitting. --By Sora Song...