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...Russian government modified its securities laws to outlaw this method of reducing dividends, prompting Surgut’s recent increase in payouts, the Boston Business Journal reported...
...centralization of church authority. He published a decree effectively requiring national bishops' conferences to get Vatican approval before making statements on doctrine and made episcopal appointments subject to seeming litmus tests on topics like abortion and homosexuality. Even conservatives like Father Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the interfaith journal First Things, feel that the result, at least in the U.S., has been the advancement of "team players, CEOs and managers. They have genuine piety, but they are not the kind of people who are very spiritually flammable...
...close--and not all of those physicians are in Oregon. Many doctors admit to being willing to administer so-called terminal sedation, raising drug levels high enough to induce a fatal coma. Others simply increase morphine doses until the patient stops breathing. In 1998 the New England Journal of Medicine published a physician survey showing that when patients asked for lethal prescriptions, 16% of doctors complied, albeit quietly. "Aid in dying happens in every state," says assemblywoman Patty Berg, co-sponsor of the California bill. "We need to bring it out of the closet, impose legal safeguards and careful oversight...
...turns out the remains might have been Yokota's after all. In February, the British scientific journal Nature published an article in which the scientist who did the tests admitted they were inconclusive-and that the remains could have been contaminated with foreign DNA. "The bones are like stiff sponges that can absorb anything," Teikyo University DNA analyst Yoshii Tomio told a Nature interviewer. The technique Yoshii used, known as "nested PCR," also raised doubts: professional forensics labs in the U.S. don't use it because of the high risk of contamination, according to Terry Melton, a DNA expert...
...build buzz for big summer releases, are opening their sets to the public via Web-based video diaries. Singer's video blog, bluetights.net joins several other real-time movie blogs, such as the text-only diary Zach Braff did for his movie Garden State gardenstate.typepad.com and the video journal of the King Kong shoot that Peter Jackson is keeping at kongisking.net These guys are releasing the making of movies as they're making the movie...