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...study tracked 2,153 participants, average age 73, as part of the ongoing Northern Manhattan Study on stroke, led by Columbia University researchers. The participants were tracked for about two years - none had had a stroke when the study began - and their daytime drowsiness was assessed using a standard sleepiness scale. Of the group, 44% were never-dozers, 47% were sometimes-dozers and 9% were always-dozers. During the follow-up period, the group had 40 strokes and 127 other vascular events, such as heart attack. The data showed not only an increase in stroke risk with excessive daytime sleepiness...
...many ways, London has become the world's leading financial center. With finance a global growth industry, this is a great strength to have. But it is a uniquely mobile industry, and one in which reputation is particularly important. So the still unresolved failure of the U.K. mortgage bank, Northern Rock, is more damaging for Britain than a similar disaster would be for any other country...
...task of bank supervision from the Bank of England and entrust it to the agency responsible for the regulation of U.K. financial markets - perhaps under the erroneous belief that financial regulation and bank supervision were much the same thing. In fact, they are fundamentally different. In any event, although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share of the mortgage market very substantially, the new regulator proved to be asleep on the job, and the danger was completely overlooked until crisis overtook the bank last September. As a result...
...sacred annals of crazy young love, Atheer Lokus may have opened a whole new chapter of recklessness. The 20-year-old restaurant manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants...
...jets that could be worth more than $10 billion. The prospects have Lockheed, the world's biggest defense contractor, and U.S. aerospace giant Boeing salivating along with their Russian and European rivals. "The sector is opening up fast," says Lavina Gupta, Director of Anjani Technoplast, a company based in northern India that makes body armor, helmets and armored vehicles. "People have started looking up towards India. We are good entrepreneurs, we have the talents, it's just that we are now being recognized as a market. Everybody wants to be here...