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...effort to revive Britain's flagging banking sector has reversed the government's fortunes. Prime Minister Brown's broadly popular plan - which includes extra liquidity for banks and government guarantees for their debt - has inspired similar rescue packages across Europe. Still, one model won't fit all. "Some countries consider they don't have an insolvency problem, and are focusing more on providing guarantees to improve liquidity in the markets," says Antonio Ramirez, banking analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. (On Monday, for instance, Spain said it would guarantee new bank debt until...
...weeks as GM Europe tries to adjust to falling demand for its cars. Opel was one of the first western firms to set up shop in Eisenach after the fall of the wall in 1989. The factory, which employs some 1,800 people, now produces GM's popular Corsa model for export around Europe and beyond. The town (population 40,000) has also become home to suppliers such as component maker Bosch, machine servicing firm Hormann, and Lear, which makes seats for the Corsa. "Eisenach lives from Opel," says Uwe Laubach, head of the local branch of the IG Metall...
Dogs provide a good model system, not only because they have bigger brains than mice, but also because they would allow researchers to test the toxicity of the cancer-killing protein and the efficacy of the therapy, Breakefield said...
...need: one button for a tinkle, another for after a Thanksgiving dinner and perhaps both several times for when you have contractors in the house. Americans have not taken to dual-flush toilets, as they are known, says Toto's New York sales rep, Kurt Raabe, because the early models were substandard. "There were some guys who were having trouble making the 1.6 gallon model work for them," he says. "That's how Toto got its foot in the door in the U.S. It has the best flushing toilet on the market." (This is a guy who talks about toilets...
...save on therapy. Previous Neorests have come with a device that imitates the sound of water flushing - presumably to disguise any other sounds emanating from the bathroom. But the newer model has a sound system that accommodates an SD memory card, and comes preprogrammed with 18 soundscapes. Some of them - the pounding of the ocean, the Lite FM jazz - appear to be designed to promote meditation. Others - classical music, running water, classical music played over running water - appear to be inspirational. Still others - there's a sort of marching tune in there - are more of the get-on-with...