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...German banks have been working round the clock for the past week to try to fix the problem, which involves reconfiguring tens of thousands of cash machines and payment terminals in German stores and supermarkets, as well as those in countries visited by vacationing Germans, to be able to read the faulty chips. Officials said that replacing all of the cards would simply be too costly and time-consuming. (See the worst business deals...
...Over the past few days, bank officials say that most cash machines in the country have been reconfigured and are now reading the cards again. But they say that most payment terminals won't be fixed until at least Monday, which has led some crafty consumers to come up with their own solution - covering the faulty chips on their bank cards with tape so tellers can process payments through the magnetic strip instead. But consumer groups point out that magnetic strips are not as secure as chips, and they've urged the banks to solve the problem as quickly...
...drugs were a massive success. In 1987 analysts predicted Prozac could earn its parent, Eli Lilly & Co., up to $175 million a year by 1990. It blew past that target in 1989, earning $350 million - more than had been spent annually on all antidepressants put together just two years previously. By 1990, Prozac was the country's most prescribed antidepressant, with 650,000 scrips written or renewed each month. Annual sales soon topped $1 billion...
Nevertheless, sales stayed strong. By 1993, Prozac had been taken by some 10 million people around the globe. In contrast to the obscure antidepressants of generations past, Newsweek noted in 1994, "Prozac has attained the familiarity of Kleenex and the social status of spring water." Depression had begun to shake its stigma...
...between the positions of the two sides has not deterred the Obama Administration from seeking an immediate resumption of talks; it hopes that getting the Israelis and Palestinians around a table would result in finding a formula for sharing the Holy Land they have fought for most of the past century. (See pictures of Barack Obama's trips overseas...