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...While the VCs may not necessarily be investing less, the patterns of those investments have changed. According to Liz Barth, director of research at Deals In Europe Plus, a data service from Tornado-Insider.com, VCs invested $140 million more in software and technology companies in January than they did in the previous month but about $116 million less in Internet companies. When it comes to the firms still in their portfolios, VCs are demanding tighter cash management and better results. And when it's clear that one of their charges isn't likely to pull through, the backers are simply pulling...
...Liz Gibson was spending a lazy Sunday in her home in eastern England last year when she noticed a strange, tugging sensation in the left side of her chest. The pain - which Gibson, then 48, likens to a pulled muscle - worsened throughout the day, leaving her puzzled and fearful. By nightfall she was finding it difficult to breathe. Early the next morning, she was in the emergency ward of her local hospital surrounded by staff trying to establish the cause of her distress. After they had given Gibson oxygen and tested for a heart attack, one of them asked...
These days, cocaine is passe. Ecstasy is for kids. The hot new drugs are numbing blasts from the past, the ones with which such burnished icons as Elvis and Liz made headlines in their heydays of excess. Young superstar actors, rappers and chart-topping singers are popping pain pills. It's chic, it's mellowing, and some think it's funny. During January's Golden Globe awards, Just Shoot Me star David Spade joked, "I found 10 Vicodin in my gift basket." Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith, Chevy Chase and quarterback Brett Favre have been addicted to prescription drugs...
...playing another Ivy League squad in its home pool in front of what freshman Liz Anderson described as a "rowdy crowd" did not provide the Crimson (5-0) sufficient motivation, Brown's status as one of Harvard's strongest competitors certainly inspired the Crimson to be ready to play...
...Liz Gibson was spending a lazy Sunday in her home in eastern England last year when she noticed a strange, tugging sensation in the left side of her chest. The pain - which Gibson, then 48, likens to a pulled muscle - worsened throughout the day, leaving her puzzled and fearful. By nightfall she was finding it difficult to breathe. Early the next morning, she was in the emergency ward of her local hospital surrounded by staff trying to establish the cause of her distress. After they had given Gibson oxygen and tested for a heart attack, one of them asked...