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Businesses are quicker than ever to cut off fired employees' access to computer systems and more willing than ever to go to court. This year Silicon Valley celebrated a landmark prosecution in which, after four years, Avant Corp. and seven of its current and former executives were forced to pay $220 million in fines and restitution for stealing secrets from a rival tech firm. Avant got information by paying off an engineer from the targeted firm...
...choice proved fortunate. Just this summer, Ridker's group published the results of its landmark studies. As expected, patients with high CRP levels were at significantly higher risk of developing a heart attack. Even more intriguing, Ridker's team found that those with low cholesterol but high CRP were just as likely to have a heart attack as those with high cholesterol and low CRP. Ridker even showed that statins, the most popular cholesterol-lowering drugs, reduce CRP levels by equal amounts--about 13%--in both groups, suggesting that the medications pack a double wallop, working as both cholesterol-lowering...
...agency responsible for the building's conservation, has neither the funds nor the know-how to carry out its duties. On June 21, however, for the first time in decades, a faint beacon of hope pierced the choking fumes: the Tata Group's hotel chain took on the great landmark's preservation. The company has previously converted former palaces into functioning hotels, and promises to bring in international experts from the Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian and UNESCO among others, to help restore damaged engravings and stones and revamp the lighting system. In a move that could spell...
...paperback version of his landmark work, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, was published this summer...
Boston’s successful bid comes just days after NCAA women’s basketball’s landmark 11-year television deal with ESPN. As part of the deal, ESPN will cover all 63 games of the women’s basketball tournament and enhance its promotional campaign of the sport...